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Music: Classical

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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 61

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 61: Part 2: Prom 61 (part 2): San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

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Part 2 Part 2: Prom 61 (part 2): San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

2015

Prom 61 (part 2): San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2015, Prom 61, Prom 61 (part 2): San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No 3.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica).

Live at the BBC Proms: the San Francisco Symphony with their Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Yuja Wang play music by Ives and Bartok and Beethoven's Third Symphony

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Ives: Decoration Day (New England Holidays Symphony)
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2

8.20 pm INTERVAL

8.40 pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

Yuja Wang (piano)
San Francisco Symphony 
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók's Second Piano Concerto - a work the composer intended to pose 'fewer difficulties for the orchestra' and to be 'more pleasing in its thematic material' than his First. Beethoven's emotionally charged 'Eroica' Symphony forms the second half - the ground-breaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives's atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father's marching band.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 61

Prom 61

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Ives, Bartok and Beethoven

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in music by Charles Ives, Bartok and Beethoven

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