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Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Professor Thomas Dixon, who is the Director of the Centre of the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen look at mood and how composers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness, sorrow in their work and how writers have explored these emotions in novels and poetry. Hosted as a Proms Extra event recorded with an audience at Imperial College by presenter Matthew Sweet.
Producer: Fiona McLean

8.20pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.
He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.