Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Elizabeth Alker 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 special recordings from the Perth Piano Series, held at Perth Concert Hall in Scotland. Today, Bertrand Chamayou plays music by Schumann and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performs Debussy and Scriabin’s turbulent Second Sonata.
Elizabeth also has a spotlight on the BBC performing groups in recent concert recordings. Today, it’s the turn of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra who we’ll hear perform three dramatic masterpieces – Hector Berlioz’s Le Carnaval Romain and Symphonie Fantastique, plus Igor Stravinsky's magical Firebird Suite given in Aberdeen and Glasgow.
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Claude Debussy
Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Alexander Scriabin
Sonata No 2
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Antonin Dvorak
String Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97
Calefax Reed Quintet
Robert Schumann
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Hector Berlioz
Le carnaval romain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
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