One of the showcase events at this year's BBC Proms was a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto by Julia Fischer and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. On Monday's Performance Today, we've got highlights from that very performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Pablo de Sarasate: Danzas Espanolas, Op. 22, No. 3, Romanza Andaluza
Julia Fischer, violin; Milana Chernyavska, piano
Julia Fischer: Sarasate
London/Decca 4785950
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Variations alla Monferrina, Op. 54
Steven Isserlis, cello; Denes Varjon, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Witold Lufoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35: Movements 2, 3
Julia Fischer, violin; St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Niccolo Paganini: Caprice No.17 in E-flat major, Op. 1/17
Julia Fischer, violin
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Pedro Iturralde: Suite Helenica
Italian Saxophone Quartet
Beaches Fine Arts Jacksonville, St. Paul's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, FL
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-part Inventions No. 1 in C major, No. 2 in C Minor, No. 3 in D major
Janine Jansen, violin; Maxim Rysanov, viola; Torleif Thedeen, cello
Inventions & Partita
London/Decca 9905
Franz Liszt: Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra; Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sinfonia in F, F. 67, for strings and basso continuo
Concerto Copenhagen; Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor
Garrison Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
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