Elgar's 1st Symphony from the BBC Proms

Linton Stephens introduces highlights from the BBC Proms including Elgar's stirring 1st Symphony from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth; plus song from the recent Aldeburgh Festival from Nicky Spence and Julius Drake offering a variety of reflections on the theme of music and love; and one of Dvorak's most popular chamber works recorded at this year's Paul Casals International Music Festival in Spain.

BBC Proms:
Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 1 in A flat major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Pau Casals International Music Festival:
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (“Dumky”)
Antje Weithaas (violin)
Marie Elisabeth Hecker (cello)
Martin Helmchen (piano)

BBC Proms:
Judith Bingham
Moon and Stars
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Aldeburgh Festival:
‘Love & Music’
Noël Peirce Coward
If love were all (from ‘Bittersweet’)
Tom Lehrer
The Masochism Tango
Stephen Sondheim
The Girls of Summer
Love is in the air (from ‘A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum’)
Franz Schubert
An die Musik D547
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)

William Walton
Cello Concerto
Jonathan Aasgaard (cello)
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)