Name: Pierre Bleuse conducts Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto and music by Chausson and Widmann
Start: 2023-11-07T14:30:00
Location: BBC Maida Vale Studios

Santiago Cañón-Valencia

Pierre Bleuse

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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French conductor Pierre Bleuse makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducting BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Santiago Cañón-Valencia in Saint-Saëns’s ever-popular First Cello Concerto.