Organ Symphony

BBC Proms: Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris continue our series of highlights from the Proms archive, beginning with Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, written during the composer’s war-time years in New York. ‘I feel so deeply about this piece… one experiences the incredible strength of it,’ Jansen has said.
The Mediterranean verve of Berlioz’s overture Le Corsaire and the shimmering weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony complete a programme of introspective reflection and extrovert display.
Presented by Hannah French.

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten: Violin Concerto
Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’
Saint‐Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’

Janine Jansen (violin)
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi (conductor)

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(From the BBC Proms 2013, 1 September)