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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jaime Martín & pianist Khatia Buniatishvili perform music by Margaret Sutherland, Tchaikovsky & Dvořák

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

Margaret Sutherland: Haunted Hills
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor

c.8.25pm
Interval
Ian Skelly finds out about the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Australian music scene, with the orchestra's new CEO Richard Wigley and musicians from the orchestra.

c.8.45pm
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra makes its first visit to the Proms under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, bringing two Romantic orchestral classics as well as a musical postcard from Down Under. Dvořák swells simple, folk melodies into sweeping orchestral statements in his Symphony No. 6, inspired by his Bohemian homeland and landscape, while Australia’s ‘haunted hills’ are the starting point for Margaret Sutherland’s evocative symphonic portrait of her nation’s first Aboriginal inhabitants. Former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Khatia Buniatishvili is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 1, with its passionate opening and the melting lilt of its slow movement.