BBC music nudges closer to Europe

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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