BBC Symphony Orchestra
Part One
Friday 19 May 2006 19:30-20:25 (Radio 3)
Part 1. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Live from the Barbican: Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducts the orchestra. for Elgar's Symphony No 1.
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Part 1. BBC Symphony Orchestra
Live from the Barbican
Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, makes a welcome return to his friends at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, where he is Conductor Laureate.
A respected Elgarian, Davis conducts the orchestra in Sir Edward's First Symphony, and introduces his own orchestration of Bach's great organ Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm BWV582. And the dazzling Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Brahms' great Violin Concerto. Presented by Louise Fryer.
JS Bach (Orch. Sir Andrew Davis): Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm
Brahms: Violin concerto
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
