A virtuosic performance from Yuja Wang who played Liszt's Piano Concerto No.1 at the Royal Albert Hall with Oslo-Filharmonien and Klaus Mäkelä. Watch on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer | BBC Proms

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Franz Liszt’s work for piano and orchestra ‘Totentanz’, is a paraphrase on the Gregorian plainchant ‘Dies irae’, was first published in 1849. It contains Medieval sounding passages with canonic counterpoint, but the most innovative aspect of the scoring is the shockingly modernistic, even percussive, nature of the piano part. It was later arranged for solo piano in 1859. This 1997 performance by Arnaldo Cohen is vol. 1 in our ongoing Liszt Complete Piano Music series (now at vol. 60). “Cohen is