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Radio 3,05 Jun 2026,180 mins

Tchaikovsky's Pathétique with Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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Elizabeth Alker introduces recent concert performances from the last of our ten featured living conductors, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Canadian music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin performs Saint-Saëns’s Bach inspired Second Piano Concerto, with soloist Alexandre Kantorow, alongside Tchaikovsky’s final symphony and fin-de-siècle music by Ravel. Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Orchestre Métropolitain Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) Maurice Ravel La Valse Orchestre Métropolitain Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique) Orchestre Métropolitain Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
    Camille Saint‐Saëns
  3. 2.
    Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42
    Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42
    Robert Schumann
  4. 3.
    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ('Pathétique')
    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ('Pathétique')
    Pyotr Tchaikovsky