Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Elgar's Violin Concerto with Vilde Frang and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
Today, the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring us music by Albert Roussel, alongside Anatoly Lyadov’s ever-popular tone poem The Enchanted Lake, and they are also ed by star Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Edward Elgar’s majestic Violin Concerto.
Elizabeth also has more from the recent Perth Piano Series in Scotland. Today, Bertrand Chamayou plays Glinka, Nikita Lukinov performs Debussy and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason captivates in Prokofiev’s virtuosic wartime 7th Piano Sonata sometimes referred to as his 'Stalingrad' sonata.
Albert Roussel
Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ariane Matiakh (conductor)
Claude Debussy
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Nikita Lukinov (piano)
Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op. 83 ‘Stalingrad’
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, (piano)
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
Pavel Haas Quartet
Anatoly Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ariane Matiakh (conductor)
Mikhail Glinka (arr Balakirev)
L’Alouette (The Lark)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
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