In the second live visit to the Proms, the Philharmonia Orchestra performs Elgar'sÃEnigma Variations. Before the performance, conductor Leonard Slatkin, an American with a great enthusiasm for English music, gives a personal view of one of the composer's most enduring works.
James Naughtie introduces the concert, which also includes the exciting Concert Music for Brass and Strings by Paul Hindemith and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The soloist is the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
BBC Proms 95: the Centenary Season
BBC Proms · Season 49 · Episode 2
In the second live visit to the Proms, the Philharmonia Orchestra performs Elgar'sÃEnigma Variations. Before the performance, conductor Leonard Slatkin, an American with a great enthusiasm for English music, gives a personal view of one of the composer's most enduring works.
James Naughtie introduces the concert, which also includes the exciting Concert Music for Brass and Strings by Paul Hindemith and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The soloist is the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
James Naughtie introduces the concert, which also includes the exciting Concert Music for Brass and Strings by Paul Hindemith and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The soloist is the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
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49
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2
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24/Jul/1995
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