BBC Proms 2019 Prom 20 - Pekka Kuusisto and the BBC SSO (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard plus Pekka Kuusisto. Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony performed with special Finnish folk music introductions.

01. Trad - Finnish Folk Music
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 20
02. Sibelius - Violin Concerto
03. Sibelius - Humoresque No. 4, Op. 89 No. 2 in G minor (encore)
03a. Dausgaard introduces the encore
04. Trad - Finnish Folk Music
04a. Introduction to the second half of the concert
05. Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915)
06. Trad Karelian - Runolaulo (rune song)
06a. Pekka Kuusisto addresses the audience
06b. Outro from Kate Molleson

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Taito Hoffrén (singer)
Ilona Korhonen (singer)
Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer)
Vilma Timonen (kantele)
Timo Alakotila (harmonium)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony’s original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.

07. Proms 2019 Prom 20, Proms Plus Talk
Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Broad and Professor Daniel Grimley about the music in tonight's concert.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson
Broadcast: 3 August 2019