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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer are joined by Sir András Schiff in Schumann's Piano Concerto. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony complete the programme.

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

Weber: Der Freischütz – overture
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

INTERVAL Professor John Mullan joins Ian Skelly to discuss artistic visitors to Scotland, with a focus on the 83-day journey around the western islands made in 1773 by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson.

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’

Sir András Schiff, piano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor

In the first of its three Proms this weekend, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and founder-conductor Iván Fischer are joined by celebrated fellow Hungarian Sir András Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos – Schumann’s generous, poetic bravura piece that renegotiates the relationship between soloist and orchestra. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz sees Romanticism take a supernatural turn when a huntsman makes a deal with the Devil. Darkness and light also meet in Mendelssohn’s atmospheric ‘Scottish’ Symphony, inspired by a twilight visit to the Palace of Holyrood, haunted by memories of Mary, Queen of Scots.

02:16 Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz: Overture
19:23 Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor
53:00 Johannes Brahms - Liebe Schwalbe, kleine Schwalbe (Zigeunerlieder, Op 112: No 4)
55:40 Robert Schumann - The Happy Farmer
57:36 Interval - Professor John Mullan joins Ian Skelly to discuss artistic visitors to Scotland
1:21:45 Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’