Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra 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.

Today on Classical Live, from Tuesday night’s prom at the Royal Albert Hall, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony; and from the night before we'll hear the combined forces of the Julliard Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra performing Bartok's Concerto Orchestra, under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen.

And from Copenhagen's recent Festival and Friends, we'll hear exclusive live recordings of Poulenc's Flute Sonata and Grażyna Bacewicz's Piano Quintet No.1

Verbier Festival:
Camille Saint-Saens
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28
Marc Bouchkovn(violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Granville Bantock
Overture - The Pierrot of the minute
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Copenhagen Festival & Friends:
Grażyna Bacewicz
Piano Quintet No. 1
Ludvig Gudim (violin)
Claire Wells (violin)
Michael Andreas Grolid (viola)
Cansin Kara (cello)
Sergei Redkin (piano)

BBC Proms:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Granada Festival of Early Music:
Josquin Desprez
Motet - O bone et dulcissime Jesu
Odhecaton
Paolo da Col (conductor)

Copenhagen Festival & Friends:
Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata
Otilia Zielke, flute
Sergei Redkin (piano)

BBC Proms:
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Juilliard Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen (conductor)