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Tchaikovsky's Pathétique with Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Elizabeth Alker introduces recent concert performances from the last of our ten featured living conductors, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in music by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens and Ravel

Elizabeth Alker introduces recent concert performances from the last of our ten featured living conductors, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Canadian music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin performs Saint-Saëns’s Bach inspired Second Piano Concerto, with soloist Alexandre Kantorow, alongside Tchaikovsky’s final symphony and fin-de-siècle music by Ravel.

Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Orchestre Métropolitain
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Orchestre Métropolitain
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique)
Orchestre Métropolitain
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

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Fri 5 Jun 202613:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.

  • Robert Schumann

    Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Kitty Whately.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ('Pathétique')

    Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.

  • Edward Elgar

    From the Bavarian Highlands

    Performer: Iain Farrington. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478 (Arr. L. Stokowski for Orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain.
    • Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478 (Arr. L. Stokowski for Orchestra).
    • ATMA Classique.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.42

    Performer: Tom Borrow.

  • Richard Strauss

    Romanze in F Major, TrV 118 (Arr. for Violin & Orchestra)

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Aber der Richtige....
    • PENTATONE.
    • 4.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Orchestra: Orchestre Métropolitain. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Jun 202613:00
    BBC Radio 3