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BBC Proms: 2017

BBC Proms: 2017: Prom 2: Daniel Barenboim conducts Sibelius and Elgar

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2017

15/07/2017

Prom 2: Daniel Barenboim conducts Sibelius and Elgar

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Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Sibelius and Elgar.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin. Sibelius: Violin Concerto (soloist: Lisa Batiashvili). Elgar: Symphony No 1.

Live at BBC Proms: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony 

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill


Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Professor Thomas Dixon, who is the Director of the Centre of the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen look at mood and how composers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness, sorrow in their work and how writers have explored these emotions in novels and poetry. Hosted as a Proms Extra event recorded with an audience at Imperial College by presenter Matthew Sweet. 
Producer: Fiona McLean

8.20pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.
He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.

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.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2017 BBC Proms season.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 123rd season of the BBC Proms.

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