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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: Pekka Kuusisto directs the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with singer Katarina Barruk, guitarist Arnljot Nordvik & drummer Christer Jørgensen

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Katarina Barruk: songs based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie
Michael Tippett: Divertimento on ‘Sellinger’s Round’
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3, ‘Mishima’ – Blood Oath (fifth movement)
Hannah Kendall: Weroon Weroon (UK premiere)
Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Reger): Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross’, BWV 622
Caroline Shaw: Plan & Elevation – The Beech Tree (fifth movement)

c.8.05pm
Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by harpsichordist and music director Joseph McHardy who picks some highlights from the week ahead at the Â鶹Éç Proms, a week that includes a performance of Shostakovich's blistering opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, St Vincent and the Jules Buckley orchestra and Simon Rattle conducting Chineke! Orchestra in Shostakovich's 10th Symphony.

c.8.25pm
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Dmitry Shostakovich arr. R. Barshai: Chamber Symphony (from String Quartet No. 8)

Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms for a programme that reflects on human injustice. Shostakovich wrote his String Quartet No. 8 in Dresden, contemplating the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. For some, the work also speaks of the oppression of the Russian people under Stalin’s rule. In a different time and place, singer and composer Katarina Barruk – one of only a handful of remaining speakers of the Ume Sámi language – is a living beacon for her native tongue and culture, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern.