Performance on 3 - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Ginastera, Piazzolla, Falla

Presented by Martin Handley. From the Barbican Centre in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Josep Pons, with repertoire evoking Spain and South America. The concert opens in an Argentinean sugar-cane farm with Dances from Estancia, energetic ballet music by Alberto Ginastera; then it's nature's turn as tango master Astor Piazzolla pays homage to the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Andes in a concerto for bandoneon and orchestra -with Pablo Maineti the soloist. Manuel de Falla's colourful orchestral palette comes next with two highly descriptive pieces, Nights in the Gardens of Spain and The Three Cornered Hat - Suite No. 2. GINASTERA: Dances from Estancia PIAZZOLLA: Aconcagua - Concerto for Bandoneon FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA: The Three Cornered Hat - Suite No. 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra Pablo Mainetti, bandoneon Javier Perianes, piano Josep Pons, conductor Followed by hightlights from pianist Elizabeth Leonskaya's recent Wigmore Hall recital.