BBC Proms

Season 76 Episode 10: Prom 35: Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä

No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence and self-mocking humour, this ‘Hero’s Life’ is very much the world according to Richard Strauss – an exuberant, off-the-scale showpiece for the Oslo Philharmonic, making its first Proms appearance under its recently appointed and widely acclaimed Chief Conductor Klaus Makëlä. Joining them, in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto is the phenomenal Yuja Wang, who’s said that she ‘feels like a rock star’ when playing at the Proms. Sibelius’s awe-inspiring panorama of the Finnish forests opens a high-octane evening with one of Europe’s great orchestras, and two of the most talked-about classical musicians in the world today.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

80

Episodes:

1181

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

180 min

First Air:

1947

Rating:

7.7