Philadelphia Orchestra & Janine Jansen

One of the world's great orchestras comes to the Proms with a programme of familiar classics that takes in Rachmaninov's bracing swansong, written for Philadelphia.

A regular visitor in recent years, Janine Jansen joins the orchestra for the ever-popular Tchaikovsky concerto she recorded recently in fresh and unashamedly romantic style.

These works are bookended by Sibelius's patriotic rallying cry and Ravel's apotheosis of the waltz, a piece whose unstoppable whirling may have been intended as a metaphor for the fate of European civilisation.

Jean Sibelius: Finlandia(8 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major(35 mins)
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances(36 mins)
Maurice Ravel: La Valse(12 mins)

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S2011E74 - Last Night of the Proms