The BBC has unrolled a new partnership with the European Broadcasting Union. It is described as ‘the first new Eurovision music co-production with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since Eurovision Young Musicians, which first aired in 1982’.
Concerts will be filmed at four orchestras, broadcast on BBC TV and offered to all 113 EBU Member organisations across 56 countries.
Here’s the menu:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Aviva Studios in Manchester, United Kingdom
Adams A short ride in a fast machine
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake – selection
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Adès Dante: The Earthly Paradise; The Heavenly Procession; The Ascent
Moross, The Big Country main title
Ben Gernon, conductor
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Grande Auditório of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal
Smetana Vltava
Debussy La Mer
Ravel La Valse
Aziz Shokhkimov, conductor
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonie in Cologne, Germany
“Fairytale Sounds”
Lyadov – The Enchanted Lake
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Music House in Helsinki, Finland
Kaija Saariaho: Le ciel d’hiver
Uuno Klami: Kalevala-Suite
Sibelius: Finlandia
Nicholas Collon, conductor
pictured: Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at Aviva Studios in Manchester during a performance for the Eurovision Classical Concerts series (Image: BBC / Gaëlle Beri)
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