One of the highlights for me of this season's BBC Proms concerts is coming up from about 8:30 p.m. tonight: Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.

Concert on Radio 3 from 7:30.

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Because of the protests, the order of pieces in the concert has been changed: the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will now perform Dvořák's wonderful Sixth Symphony.

Let's hope there won't be any problems this time, whatever the protests were about.

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There has been a second disruption, but the orchestra is carrying on with Margaret Sutherland's music.

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The orchestra has started playing Margaret Sutherland's Haunted Hills from the beginning again, a sensible decision.

Coming later will be Tchaikovsky's blowsy First Piano Concerto, then my favourite of all Dvořák's symphonies, his Sixth.

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Tonight's performance is by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jaime Martín, with Khatia Buniatishvili as the piano soloist. The disturbance occurred while they were playing Haunted Hills by Margaret Sutherland.

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They'll be joined by the Danish National Concert Choir and four excellent soloists.

It's the annular performance of Beethoven's great Ninth Symphony at the BBC Proms.

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Coming up live on Radio 3 at 19:30, Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in music by Bent Sørensen and Anna Clyne, followed by Beethoven's heaven-storming Choral Symphony, his Ninth Symphony, with the famous Ode To Joy.

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And tonight from the BBC Proms at 8:00 p.m., live on Radio 3, is Mahler's huge, uplifting, Second Symphony performed by the Hallé Orchestra and Choir and Youth Choir, with Mari Eriksmoen and Emily D’Angelo, conducted by Kahchun Wong.

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I remember fondly the excellence of Tadaaki Otaka when he was principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales back in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski with its repeated, insistent theme that gives the whole piece a feeling of great unity.

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And coming up in an hour, at 7:30p.m., the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth in Birtwistle's Earth Dances (which I don't know), and at 8:30, Beethoven's magnificent Eroica Symphony, all live on BBC Radio 3.

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I adore Walton's First Symphony.

Information about tonight's concert at the BBC Proms website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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This year's BBC Proms season begins this evening at 18:45, and lasts until 13th September. The concerts will feature very many excellent performers. All concerts will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

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