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Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra from the ĢƵ Proms

Elizabeth showcases epic performances from this year’s summer music festivals, including Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and Grażyna Bacewicz's PIano Quintet No.1.

Elizabeth Alker introduces an afternoon of great summer music making with concert performances from home and abroad including highlights from the ĢƵ Proms, plus exclusive recordings from the Verbier Music Festival and the Granada Music Festival.

Today on Classical Live, there is another chance to hear Tuesday night’s prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. And from the night before, we also hear Bartók’s exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra, with the Juilliard Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The programme also visits the Verbier Festival for Saint-Saëns’s sparkling Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, performed by violinist Marc Bouchkov and pianist Julien Quentin. And from the Granada Festival of Early Music, Odhecaton and conductor Paolo da Col perform Josquin des Prez’s radiant motet O bone et dulcissime Jesu.
From Copenhagen, comes two chamber music highlights: Grażyna Bacewicz’s spirited First Piano Quintet and Poulenc’s elegant Flute Sonata.

Verbier Festival:
Camille Saint-Saens
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28
Marc Bouchkovn(violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Granville Bantock
Overture - The Pierrot of the minute
ĢƵ Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Copenhagen Festival & Friends:
Grażyna Bacewicz
Piano Quintet No. 1
Ludvig Gudim (violin)
Claire Wells (violin)
Michael Andreas Grolid (viola)
Cansin Kara (cello)
Sergei Redkin (piano)

ĢƵ Proms:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Granada Festival of Early Music:
Josquin Desprez
Motet - O bone et dulcissime Jesu
Odhecaton
Paolo da Col (conductor)

Copenhagen Festival & Friends:
Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata
Otilia Zielke, flute
Sergei Redkin (piano)

ĢƵ Proms:
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Juilliard Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen (conductor)

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3 hours

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  • Fri 14 Aug 2026 13:00