Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements from the BBC Proms

Elizabeth Alker with great summer making 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 Early Music Festival.

On today’s show, another chance to hear Monday night’s performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, with the combined Juilliard Orchestra and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, live at the Royal Albert Hall.
Today’s highlight from the Verbier Music Festival is Medtner's Piano Quintet in C with a star line-up: Daniel Lozakovich, Paloma So, Timothy Ridout, Kian Soltani and Yunchan Lim.

And ahead of tonight’s highly anticipated BBC Prom with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who are playing Beethoven’s 7th Symphony and a UK premiere of music by Gabriela Ortiz, we have an exclusive live recording from Madrid of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 featuring Javier Perianes and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Adam Hickox (conductor)

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
Piano Quintet in C
Daniel Lozakovich (violin)
Paloma So (violin)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Kian Soltani (cello)
Yunchan Lim (piano)

Fryderyk Chopin
Two Nocturnes, Op. 62
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements
Juilliard Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58
Javier Perianes (piano/conductor)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana