Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili

A most idiosyncratic version of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto from Khatia Buniatishvili along with a notable performance of Sibelius' Second Symphony from the RPO, touring the United States under Mark Wigglesworth. 

Buniatishvili 4 – Tchaikovsky 2 at the interval, but Dmitri Dmitrievich comes off the bench after half time to level for the Russians in Leningrad.

It ever there was a "recital of two halves", then this was it, with a leaden Sonata in B flat major countered by blazing Liszt at the Barbican. 

The Estonian Festival Orchestra makes its Proms debut in a refreshing Baltic-Nordic programme.

Famed for her Liszt, the Georgian pianist also impressed with weighty, dignified Brahms in her International Piano Series recital.

MTT delivered a Bruckner Seventh equal parts lyricism and dramatic power, while guest soloist Khatia Buniatishvili beguiled with her graceful Mozart.