Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's Violin Concerto from the BBC Proms

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Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of highlights from the BBC Proms, featuring some of the festival's standout performances. Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's violin concerto with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. Back at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Benjamin Appl sings Beethoven's song cycle 'An die ferne Geliebte' (To A Distant Beloved) in an arrangement for voice and string quartet with the Armida Quartet. BBC Proms: Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Manze (conductor) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Ludwig van Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 Benjamin Appl and the Armida Quartet BBC Proms: Gustav Mahler (arr. Benjamin Britten) What the Wild Flowers Tell Me BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Paweł Kapuła (conductor) BBC Proms: Robert Schumann Violin Concerto in D major, WoO. 23 Isabelle Faust Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Simon Rattle (conductor) International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg: Etienne Crausaz Ave Generosa Gesualdo Six BBC Proms: Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)