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Live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Benjamin Grosvenor in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 and Dvořák's Symphony No 7.

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

PART 1
Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin – suite
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major

c. 20:25 INTERVAL: Chain Reaction (3/6)
Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on another unpredictable musical journey as they explore Chain Reaction, connecting the last piece in the first half of this Prom to the first piece after the interval - it's quite a refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

c. 20:45 PART 2
Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)
Dvořák: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards – to explore. Bartók’s blood-curdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis – written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.