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Following her recent UK debut, American conductor Karina Canellakis now makes her first visit to the Proms, joining the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and fellow American Jeremy Denk for Bartók’s ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto.

Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, by contrast, is a work of genial lyricism. ‘Melodies simply pour out of me,’ wrote the composer, and the result is a pastoral symphony in all but name.

The concert opens with the European premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia – music ‘in the shape of the solar system’ that weaves and coils itself in a sequence of pulsing loops.

Broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four, 8 September

Image: Karina Canellakis © Todd Rosenberg