BBC Proms on the World ServiceBBC Proms 2019Episodes Episode guide

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1. Ax and Haitink play Beethoven

   7/7A sublime performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto
2. Recreating Ellington's Sacred Concerts for the 21st Century

   6/7Young British jazz musicians perform Duke Ellington's late masterworks
3. Painting pictures with orchestral colours

   5/7Mussorgsky's glittering Pictures at an Exhibition and Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture
4. Celebrating women composers

   4/7Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor and Sofia Gubaidulina's Fairytale Poem
5. Jean Sibelius and Finnish folk music

   3/7Sibelius’s powerful Violin Concerto and the traditional tunes that may have inspired it
6. West Africa meets Cuba: Angélique Kidjo's electrifying tribute to Celia Cruz

   2/7Scintillating covers of classic salsa tracks by one of Africa's most distinctive voices
7. Creating a new public for classical music

   1/7Trailblazing dance music by Bartok and Stravinsky championed by the Proms founder