Mark Forrest showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
This week on Classical Live, we have music inspired by artwork including Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead performed BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan, which was based on Swiss Symbolist Arnold Böcklin's painting 'Die Toteninsel'.
Mark also has a spotlight on the Danish national baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen. Today, we hear them perform Georg Muffat's Sonata No. 1 in D major. Elsewhere, violinist Esther Hoppe, cellist Christian Poltéra and pianist Ronald Brautigam perform Haydn's technically sophisticated yet virtuosic Piano Trio No. 45 in E flat major.
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
Charles Owen (piano)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Georg Muffat
Sonata No. 1 in D major
Concerto Copenhagen
Eleanor Alberga
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Selection of Dances)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Lynch (conductor)
Fryderyk Chopin
Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 ‘Heroic’
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Isle of the Dead
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio No. 45 in E flat, Hob. XV: 29
Esther Hoppe (violin)
Christian Poltéra (cello)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre de Paris
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
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