BBC Proms 2011 - Weber, Brahms & Stravinsky

Prom 06: Weber, Brahms & Stravinsky , , Royal Albert Hall Renaud and Gautier Capuçon play Brahms’s meltingly beautiful Double Concerto and Myung-Whun Chung leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Weber’s Oberon overture and Stravinsky’s famous The Rite of Spring. Programme Carl Maria von Weber Oberon - overture (9 mins) Johannes Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor (32 mins) Johan Halvorsen Passacaglia in G minor on a Theme by Handel (4 mins) (encore) Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (33 mins) Georges Bizet Carmen Suite no.1: VI. Les toréadors(4 mins) No. 6 Les Toreadors (encore) Performers Renaud Capuçon violin Gautier Capuçon cello Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France Myung-Whun Chung conductor About this event In the first half of his second Prom Myung-Whun Chung pairs works by German Romantics from opposite ends of the 19th century, including the meltingly beautiful Brahms Double Concerto with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. After the interval come