
Episode 1
Katie Derham presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak, plus a Surprise Piece.
Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015/16 concert season. Today's programme features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the orchestra's chief conductor Mariss Jansons, and includes a work which Jansons programmed as a 'surprise piece' to keep everyone guessing until the end.
2pm:
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons
2.15pm:
Purcell: Bid the virtures, bid the Graces (from Come ye sons of art);
Steffani: Spezza amor
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
2.35pm:
Strauss: Don Quixote
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons
3.20pm:
Surprise Piece
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons
3.30pm:
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons.
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- Mon 29 Feb 2016 14:00