Sibelius, Symphony No. 6 in D minor (28 mins) Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor (30 mins) INTERVAL Nielsen, Symphony No. 4, 'Inextinguishable' (35 mins) Alice Sara Ott piano Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor About this event Absent from the Proms since 2004, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is back with a new Chief Conductor, no stranger to these shores (as a former Music Director of the CBSO), and a suitably Nordic programme. Sibelius claimed to be offering the public 'pure cold water' with music like his magical Sixth Symphony - other composers were, he said, 'engaged in the manufacture of cocktails'. Nielsen's Fourth is a more extrovert piece, a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit from the dark days of the First World War, complete with battling sets of timpani and earth-shattering climaxes. Between the two symphonies, critically acclaimed young German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos.