Performance on 3 - Minnesota Orchestra

Catherine Bott presents a concert given at London's Barbican Centre by the Minnesota Orchestra under the baton of Osmo Vanska, featuring music by Adams, Barber and Beethoven. The programme includes American virtuoso Joshua Bell performing Barber's concerto for violin and orchestra. Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vanska (conductor) Joshua Bell (violin) * Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox Barber: Concerto for violin and orchestra * ENCORE - Vieuxtemps: Souvenir d’Amerique: Variations on Yankee Doodle, op. 17 * Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica) ENCORE - Sibelius: Valse Triste Followed by a focus on the Minnesota Orchestra's new music commissions: Minnesota Orchestra Times Square Ballet (from On The Town) Edo de Waart, conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer VIRGIN CLASSICS 61194 Aaron Jay Kernis, composer Musica Celestis (String Quartet No. 1, arranged for string orchestra) Minnesota Orchestra Eiji Oue, conductor VIRGIN CLASSICS 45464