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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: the Philharmonia and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali with pianist Bruce Liu in Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gabriela Ortiz: Antrópolis
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major

c. 20.30pm Interval: Helen Wallace, the Head of Music at the Barbican Centre in London, joins Ian Skelly live at the Royal Albert Hall to introduce Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and discuss the appeal of depicting artwork that has exercised composers across the ages.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)

Bruce Liu (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Chopin Piano Competition-winner Bruce Liu – hailed for the ‘breathtaking beauty’ of his playing – makes his Proms debut with Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed Second Piano Concerto. He joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali for a work that balances the intimacy of chamber music with huge scope and virtuosity. Take a visit to Mexico City’s cabarets and dance halls in Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis – a vivid homage to urban nightlife – while Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition conjures an orchestral kaleidoscope of strange scenes and images, climaxing with the splendour of the Great Gate of Kyiv.