Brahms Symphony no 4 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. The Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Lahav Shani, perform Brahms' fourth symphony. Elsewhere, there's chamber music from this year's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival on the Baltic Coast. The programme also includes highlights from the International Sacred Music Festival in Fribourg with music by Isabella Leonarda. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Julia Fischer, violin Lena Neudauer, violin Valerie Steenken, violin Eva Zavaro, violin Nils Mönkemeyer, viola Wen Xiao Zheng, viola Maximilian Hornung, cello Benjamin Nyffenegger, cello BBC Proms: Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta BBC Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša (conductor) BBC Proms: Johannes Brahms Symphony no 4 Munich Philharmonic Lahav Shani (conductor) International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg: Isabella Leonarda Ad arma The Kapsber'girls Albane Imbs (director) Imperial Hall Concerts, Füssen: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio no 4 in B flat op 11’Gassenhauer’ Ib Hausmann, (clarinet) Lea Hausmann, (violin) Mengjie Han (piano) BBC Proms: Benjamin Britten Violin Concerto Simone Lamsma (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Manze (conductor)