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Part of the BBC Proms. Hungarian folk tunes run through the veins of Iv?n Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, while Gypsy rhythms set their pulses dancing. This concert - a true celebration of Hungary's national music - traces the development of folk songs and dance, from their colourful, rough-hewn originals into virtuosic concert-hall reimaginings by Liszt, Brahms and Sarasate. In the second half comes Brahms's dramatic First Symphony, whose darkness and drama eventually give way to an ending of transcendent musical triumph.