BBC Proms on the World Service

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• Discover Great Composers

  Their lives, works and influences.

  • Programmes: Great Composers

  

• A tango-filled spring in Buenos Aires

  Astor Piazzolla’s musical portrait of his favourite city

  Duration: 6:35

• Sowande's African Suite gets the audience's feet tapping

  The joyful rhythms of Akinla, the fifth movement of Fela Sowande’s work, at BBC Proms 2021

  Duration: 4:16

• A luminous Proms debut

  Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson plays Bach at his first BBC Prom

  Duration: 3:23

• A revolution in dance music

  The Infernal Dance from Stravinsky’s Firebird at the 2019 BBC Proms

  Duration: 4:23
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