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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Thursday - BBC Proms - Pekka Kuusisto plays Vivaldi

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Thursday - BBC Proms - Pekka Kuusisto plays Vivaldi

BBC Proms 2023

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Proms 2023, Thursday - BBC Proms - Pekka Kuusisto plays Vivaldi

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the BBC Proms.

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Penny Gore, including another chance to hear violinist Pekka Kuusisto's recent appearance at the BBC Proms, directing The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in music by Andrea Tarrodi, Beethoven and Vivaldi's Four Seasons interspersed with folk improvisations by Kuusisto and the cittern player Ale Carr.

Also today, new recordings of music by Elgar and Offenbach from the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic, and more from soprano Dorothee Mields and Concerto de’ Cavalieri at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Including:

Elgar: The Spanish Lady (Comedy Overture)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor

c. 2.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Sunday 16th July) 
Presented by Hannah French

Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major 

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Pekka Kuusisto, violin/conductor

c. 2.55pm
Proms Artist Choice - Pekka Kuusisto:

C Schumann: 3 Romances for violin and piano, Op.22
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Alice Sara Ott, piano

Sibelius: The Oceanides Op.73
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

c. 3.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Sunday 16th July) 
Presented by Hannah French

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons interspersed with folk music improvisations

Ale Carr, Cittern
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Pekka Kuusisto, violin/conductor

c. 4.25pm 
JS Bach: Betörte Welt, from 'Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, cantata'
Albinoni: Excerpts from 'Amor, sorte, destino!, op. 4, cantata'
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Concerto de’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

c. 4.50pm
Offenbach: La Belle Helene, Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor

Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023

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Every day during the summer, Afternoon Concert includes performances from a recent Prom.

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