16/08/2026

Live at the BBC Proms: Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Martin Fröst with a programme exploring the evolution of dance, from Rameau to Mühlrad, and culminating with Beethoven.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Martin Fröst: Cradle Song
Jacob Mühlrad: Helix(BBC commission: world premiere)
Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Dardanus – Gigue (Act 5) orch. Hans Ek
George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus – ‘De torrente in via bibet’ orch. Hans Ek
Shai Wosner: Bulgarian gigue after J. S. Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 – Gigue; orch. Hans Ek
Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes – Les sauvages arr. Shai Wosner, orch. Hans Ek
Göran Fröst & Martin Fröst: Nomadic Dances

c.11.30am
Sara-Mohr Pietsch talks to Swedish violist Göran Fröst (brother of clarinettist / conductor Martin, and member of the orchestra) about the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and musical life in Sweden.

c.11.50am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major

Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Martin Fröst (conductor/clarinet)

Maverick clarinet virtuoso Martin Fröst – praised for his ‘unsurpassed musicianship’ by The New York Times – explores the evolution of dance in a wide-ranging programme that contrasts the courtly with the rustic and climaxes in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7: dance unleashed as never before. The courtly dances of Rameau and Handel give way to Bach’s contrapuntal invention and folk music’s instinctive pulse, transformed into something provocative and dynamic in works by contemporary Swedish composers Hans Ek and Jacob Mühlrad.