Gershwin’s Piano Concerto from the BBC Proms

Linton Stephens introduces highlights from this year's Proms, including Gershwin's jazz-inspired Piano Concerto from Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Olivier Latry also makes the Royal Albert Hall organ shake with his performance of Bach's mighty Toccata & Fugue in D minor. Plus performances from mezzo-soprano Beth Tyler & pianist Hamish Brown, and from the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival. And from the Carinthian Summer Music Festival in Austria, Camerata Salzburg plays Beethoven's Symphony No.5.

Edinburgh International Festival:
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 cellos in G minor, RV. 531
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)

BBC Proms:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Peter Whelan (conductor)

Edinburgh International Festival:
Augusta Holmès
Pareil a la mer profonde; Le Vin
Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano)
Hamish Brown (piano)

BBC Proms:
George Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F major
Yeol Eum Son (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan (conductor)

BBC Proms:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV. 56
Olivier Latry (organ)

Summer Festivities of Early Music, Prague:
Thomas Crecquillon
Andreas Christi famulus
Stile Antico

Carinthian Summer Music Festival, Austria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Camerata Salzburg
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)

Edinburgh International Festival:
Connie Converse
Cassandra Cycle (excerpts)
Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano)
Hamish Brown (piano)

Edinburgh International Festival:
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in C major, RV. 443
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)

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