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Proms Across the UK: Mozart and Mendelssohn

Radio 3's Proms Marathon continues with Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations.

Radio 3's Proms Marathon continues with Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations; and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland joins them for Mendelssohn's rarely heard double concerto.

Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations. Grażyna Bacewicz turns an 18th-century entertainment into a witty, piquant and often densely beautiful miniature. The 14-year-old Mendelssohn had no model for his unusual Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings but combined his two soloists with ingenious and eloquent results. At the other end of his career, Mozart took the symphony to new heights in his final three efforts in the genre, beginning with the vivacious Symphony No. 39, whose brilliance veers on the cusp of darkness.

Presented by Linton Stephens, from The Fire Station, Sunderland

Grażyna Bacewicz: Divertimento 
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39

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Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Royal Northern Sinfonia

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2 hours, 14 minutes

Music Played

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Divertimento

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Maria Wloszczowska.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto for Violin,  Piano and Strings

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Maria Włoszczowska.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 39 In E Flat Major K.543

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Maria Włoszczowska.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'Acte

    Performer: Chaos String Quartet.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Voyages.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Ïշ.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn (Cantata BWV.150)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 4.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 25 Jul 2026 19:30
  • Mon 31 Aug 2026 15:45