Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no 3 from the BBC Proms

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Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of highlights from the BBC Proms, featuring some of the festival's standout performances. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jakub Hrůša, is joined by pianist Lukáš Vondráček for Rachmaninov's fiendish third piano concerto. Elsewhere, there's chamber music from this year's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival on the Baltic Coast: a Mozart string quartet and Schumann's Dichterliebe. BBC Proms: Louise Farrenc Overture no 2 Munich Philharmonic Lahav Shani (conductor) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet no 16 Armida Quartet International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg: Thomas Tallis Absterge Domine The Gesualdo Six BBC Proms: Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra Lukáš Vondráček (piano) Jakub Hrůša (conductor) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Robert Schumann Dichterliebe Benjamin Appl (baritone) Armida Quartet BBC Proms: Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony no 9 in E minor Simone Lamsma (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Manze (conductor)