BBC Symphony Orchestra
Part One
Wednesday 24 May 2006 19:15-20:05 (Radio 3)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Spanish Tour has already taken in Oviedo, Zaragoza and Pamplona. Now it reaches Valencia, in the Palau de la Musica. It was built in 1987 and is one of the banner buildings of modern Valencia.
Sir Andrew Davis conducts his own orchestration of Bach's great organ Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, after the interval.
There's also music by the Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard - five dances from his ballet Don Quixote. And the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Szymanowski's glorious Second Violin Concerto.
Presented live from the Palau de la Musica by Martin Handley.
Playlist:
JS Bach, orch Sir Andrew Davis: Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm
Szymanowski: Violin concerto No 2
Gerhard: Dances from Don Quixote
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
