BBC Proms 2017 Prom 54 Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, and Riccardo Chailly (320kbps mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Chailly are joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos to begin with Brahms's Violin Concerto, followed by music by Respighi
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
00. Introductory commentary
01. Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major
02. Respighi - Fountains of Rome
02i. Introduction to Respighi
03. Respighi - Pines of Rome
04. Interval - Proms Extra, Ancient Rome
Writer and classicist Natalie Haynes talks to Matthew Sweet about Ancient Rome and how its ruins and history have inspired writers and artists through the centuries. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Zahid Warley.
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Riccardo Chailly returns to the Proms, this time as Music Director of the Filarmonica della Scala (Orchestra of La Scala, Milan), which makes its Proms debut. They bring with them a little piece of Italy in two of Respighi's Rome-inspired tone-poems. Richly vivid in orchestral colour, these works delight in the kind of huge sonorities that come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall. The concert opens with one of the great violin concertos - Brahms's joyous, virtuosic musical homage to his friend and mentor, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim.
Broadcast: 25 August 2017
