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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' and Thomas Adès' Dante – Part 1: Inferno.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral'

c. 6.40pm
Interval: LA Times classical music critic Mark Swed talks to Martin Handley about the Los Angeles Philharmonic's impact on today's musical landscape, with members of the orchestra sharing insights from their summer tour.

c. 7.00pm
Thomas Adès: Dante – Part 1: Inferno

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

The Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to the Proms for the first time in over two decades, conducted by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Pastoral peace meets infernal horrors in two vividly descriptive orchestral classics. Cuckoos and nightingales call, a brook gently gurgles and tavern musicians strike up a dance in Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony. Thomas Adès paints a bleaker landscape in Inferno – the first panel of his Dante ballet (hear part two, Purgatorio, performed by the National Youth Orchestra on 8 August). ‘Physical, vivid and grotesque’, it’s a score that finds strange beauty in horror.