BBC Proms 2017, Prom 2: Daniel Barenboim conducts Sibelius and Elgar (320kbps .mp3)

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

01. Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor
01i. Introduction to Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor
02. Elgar - Symphony No 1 in A flat major
02i. Introduction to Elgar’s Symphony No 1 in A flat major
03. Sibelius - Valse triste, Op. 44 No. 1
04. Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')
05. Interval - Proms Extra, on emotions
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.


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.

Encoded in 320kbps .mp3
Broadcast: 15 July 2017