BBC Proms, 2017 Prom 43 - Saint-Saëns - 'Organ' Symphony (320kbps mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: RPO and Charles Dutoit with Joshua Bell, Cameron Carpenter and Stephanie d'Oustrac, perform music by de Falla, Lalo and Saint-Saëns 'Organ' Symphony
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
00. Introductory commentary
01. Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo
02. Édouard Lalo - Symphonie espagnole, Op 21
02i. Introduction to Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole
03 Massenet - Meditation from Thais (encore)
04. Saint-Saëns - Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ'
04i. Introduction to Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No 3 in C minor
Interval, Proms Extra - Saint-Saëns
Clemency Burton-Hill talks to musicologists Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith about the music of Saint-Saëns.
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano
Joshua Bell, violin
Cameron Carpenter, organ
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Tonight's celebration of the sun-scorched landscapes of Spain opens with Falla's flamenco ballet El amor brujo, rich in Andalusian folk melodies and featuring the famous 'Ritual Fire Dance'.
Joshua Bell is the soloist in Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, whose title conceals a virtuosic violin concerto steeped in the sounds of Spain, while Cameron Carpenter takes to the organ console in Saint-Saëns's mighty 'Organ' Symphony. 'With it I have given all I could,' observed the composer. 'What I did I could not achieve again.'
Broadcast: 17 August 2017
