Prom 40 – Joshua Bell & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Part of the BBC Proms.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields returns to the Proms with director and soloist Joshua Bell in a wide-ranging programme, rich in melody and narrative. Saint Saens’s Third Violin Concerto is the Romantic display concerto par excellence but shares its light-footed musical grace with Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and Mendelssohn’s overture. Bridge’s Lament is an elegy for those who died following the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania.