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Sibelius's Second

BBC Proms2025

Live at the BBC Proms: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, with Isabelle Faust in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, with Isabelle Faust in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor

c.7.50pm
During the interval Ian Skelly is joined by Katy Hamilton to talk about playing Dvorak and the rich heritage of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

c.8.10pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D

The prestigious Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – the world’s longest-established symphony orchestra, famous for the glossy richness of its ‘Leipzig sound’ – returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons.

Joining them, back at the Proms for the first time since 2010, is German violinist Isabelle Faust, soloist in Dvořák’s colourful, folk-inspired Violin Concerto.

The elemental power of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, with its heroic final movement, has become indelibly associated with Finland’s fight for freedom, no less personal a statement than the fragile, hypnotic beauty of Arvo Pärt’s tribute to Benjamin Britten.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Tue 26 Aug 202519:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Concerto In A Minor Op.53

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.

  • Nicola Matteis, Jr

    Fantasia in A Minor

    Performer: Isabelle Faust.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    The Wrath of God (Pt. 3)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Sofia Gubaidulina – Dialog: Ich und Du; The Wrath of God; The Light of the End.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op 64: III. Allegro molto vivace

    Performer: Igor Oistrakh. Conductor: Franz Konwitschny. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 & Beethoven: Romances Nos. 1 & 2.
    • P4Y Music.
    • 3.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 2 In D Major Op.43

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Aug 202519:30
    BBC Radio 3