Violinist Anthony Marwood and accordion player James Crabb live from London's Wigmore Hall

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

We begin the programme with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall. Violinist Anthony Marwood and accordion player James Crabb give the English premiere of Thomas Adès’s Märchentänze alongside Crabb’s own arrangement of The Lark Ascending, which enhances the mystical beauty of Vaughan Williams’s original. These are flanked by intoxicating dances by Astor Piazzolla, and two fiery Gaelic reels.

Elsewhere we have music from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, who bring us a feast of Romantic repertoire with Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture, and Beethoven’s passionate Eroica Symphony with conductor Clemens Schuldt.

And Elizabeth also has stunning recordings from the Perth Piano Series. Today, French pianist Bertrand Chamayou dazzles in music by Liszt and Ravel.

Live from Wigmore Hall, introduced by Petroc Trelawny.

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Crabb)
Trad. Tango Suite: S.V.P.
Tzigane, Tango and Preparense

Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Crabb)
The Lark Ascending

Thomas Adès
Märchentänze

Sally Beamish (arr. Crabb)
Lament from Seavaigers

Scottish/Border Trad.(arr. Crabb)
Struan Robertson’s Rant/Cuckold come out of the Amery

Anthony Marwood (violin) & James Crabb (accordion)

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
The Mermaid’s Song
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Melvyn Tan (piano)

Franz Liszt
2 Legends - No. 2 “St. Francis walking on the waters”
Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Wagner
The Flying Dutchman Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

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