The London Symphony Orchestra perform Vaughan Williams' A London Symphony

Linton Stephens presents an afternoon of exclusive music-making, including a special focus on London, long-regarded as one of the world’s leading centres for classical music.
There is chamber music from two of London’s leading concert venues. From Wigmore Hall, tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Piotr Anderszewski perform music by Robert Schumann. And from LSO St. Luke's, internationally acclaimed violist Antoine Tamestit is joined by violinist James Ehnes and cellist Andreas Brantelid for music by Ernő Dohnányi, before pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins Tamestit for a sonata by Dmitri Shostakovich.
At the centre of the programme, the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, performs Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony - a vivid and impressionistic portrait of early twentieth-century London that captures both the city’s restless energy and its nostalgic charm. The programme also includes highlights from the London International Festival of Early Music, featuring music by Georg Philipp Telemann.

Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

Ernő Dohnányi
Serenade in C major
James Ehnes (violin)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Andreas Brantelid (cello)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (rev 1962)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata for 2 flutes No.3 in G major
Erik Bosgraaf (recorder)
Zefira Valova (violin)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Viola Sonata Op. 147
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Benjamin Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest
Howard Williams (conductor)

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