Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra from the BBC Proms

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Elizabeth Alker introduces an afternoon of great summer music making with concert performances from home and abroad including highlights from the BBC Proms, plus exclusive recordings from the Verbier Music Festival and the Granada Music Festival. Today on Classical Live, there is another chance to hear Tuesday night’s prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. And from the night before, we also hear Bartók’s exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra, with the Juilliard Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. The programme also visits the Verbier Festival for Saint-Saëns’s sparkling Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, performed by violinist Marc Bouchkov and pianist Julien Quentin. And from the Granada Festival of Early Music, Odhecaton and conductor Paolo da Col perform Josquin des Prez’s radiant motet O bone et dulcissime Jesu. From Copenhagen, comes two chamber music highlights: Grażyna Bacewicz’s spirited First Piano Quintet and Poulenc’s elegant Flute Sonata. Verbier Festival: Camille Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28 Marc Bouchkovn(violin) Julien Quentin (piano) Granville Bantock Overture - The Pierrot of the minute BBC Concert Orchestra Barry Wordsworth (conductor) Copenhagen Festival & Friends: Grażyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet No. 1 Ludvig Gudim (violin) Claire Wells (violin) Michael Andreas Grolid (viola) Cansin Kara (cello) Sergei Redkin (piano) BBC Proms: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’ Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Granada Festival of Early Music: Josquin Desprez Motet - O bone et dulcissime Jesu Odhecaton Paolo da Col (conductor) Copenhagen Festival & Friends: Francis Poulenc Flute Sonata Otilia Zielke, flute Sergei Redkin (piano) BBC Proms: Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Juilliard Orchestra Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra Esa‐Pekka Salonen (conductor) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers), just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".