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Radio 3,29 Dec 2025,107 mins

Series Proms at Christmas 2025

John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel

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Another chance to hear John Wilson conduct the Sinfonia of London in music by Strauss, Bernstein and Ravel. Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 12th September, 2025. Presented by Hannah French Richard Strauss: Don Juan Leonard Bernstein: Serenade Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Sinfonia of London John Wilson (conductor) Critics have praised their Proms performances as ‘breathtaking’, ‘blazing’ and ‘simply as good as it gets’. Now John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London double down with a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces. Love is the theme of a Prom that opens with history's greatest seducer, Don Juan, in Strauss’s swashbuckling tone-poem and closes with the sensuous, diaphanous textures of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe. At the centre is one of Bernstein’s most lyrical orchestral works. James Ehnes is the soloist in Serenade – a violin concerto by another name that muses on, and interrogates, the nature of love itself.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Don Juan Op.20
    Don Juan Op.20
    Richard Strauss
  3. 2.
    Serenade, after Plato's "The symposium"
    Serenade, after Plato's "The symposium"
    Leonard Bernstein
  4. 3.
    Daphnis et Chloe - ballet
    Daphnis et Chloe - ballet
    Maurice Ravel
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