Janacek's Suite - ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week Classical Live explores opera without words, including today a live broadcast from Media City UK in Salford from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Clelia Cafiero performing operatic music by Puccini, Janacek and Richard Strauss. And we also have exclusive concert recordings from Portico of Ards in County Down including solos from harpist Catrin Finch. Plus, following his sad death in February, more highlights from a recital given by the Hungarian pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry.
Including:

Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
Ming Liu (violin)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)

From Portico of Ards:
Ekaterina Walter-Küne
Fantasie on Themes from ‘Eugene Onegin’
Catrin Finch (harp)

1.30
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Live Wednesday Concert series:

Giacomo Puccini
Capriccio Sinfonico
Richard Strauss
Macbeth
Leos Janácek
The Cunning Little Vixen (Suite)

BBC Philharmonic
Clelia Cafiero (conductor)

*****

Fryderyk Chopin
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, Op. 22
Tamás Vásáry (piano)

From Portico of Ards:
Nino Rota
Sarabande & Toccata
Catrin Finch (harp)