11/02/2026

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

This week, Classical Live has a distinctively French flavour as we explore the concertos of Saint-Saëns and chamber works by the likes of Fauré and Debussy. We’ll also turn our attention to France’s famous musical brothers, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon.

On today’s programme, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Sanderling provide performances of Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Bizet, and Gautier Capuçon is joined by Augustin Hadelich, the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann in a performance of Brahms’s Concerto for Violin and Cello recorded live at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28
Vadim Repin, violin
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling, conductor

Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling, conductor

Georges Bizet
L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2
(Thomas Sanderling, arranger)
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling, conductor

Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor

Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit
Danny Driver, piano