BBC Proms 2017 Prom 51 - Sibelius, Saint-Saens and Elgar, Payne (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2017 Prom 51 - Sibelius, Saint-Saens and Elgar, Payne (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Sibelius, Elgar's Symphony No.3 (completed Payne), and Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No.2 with Javier Perianes.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

00. Introductory commentary
01. Sibelius: Scènes historiques, Suite No. 1
02. Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor
02i. Introduction to Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No.2
03. Manuel de Falla - Danza ritual del fuego (The Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo) (encore)
04. Elgar/Payne - Symphony No.3
04i. Introduction to Elgar/Payne, Symphony No.3
05. Interval - Proms Extra, unfinished works
The novelist Meg Rosoff and art curator Karen Serres consider unfinished works in literature and in painting, and whether or not it is always a good idea for other people to finish them. Ian McMillan hosts. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Jacqueline Smith.


Javier Perianes (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

This year's Elgar cycle concludes with the originally unfinished Third Symphony. The concert also features the vivid, descriptive miniatures of Sibelius's Scènes historiques and Saint-Saëns's brilliantly youthful Second Piano Concerto.

Broadcast: 22 August 2017