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Live at ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Proms: Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in symphonies by Mozart and Schumann. Isabelle Faust joins them for Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, K216.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216

4.30pm INTERVAL: How to Start a World-Class Orchestra
No resident concert hall, no resident conductor, no problem. Take 45 young musicians, fresh out of the European Community Youth Orchestra, together with the renowned conductor Claudio Abbado and his assistant James Judd. Add a horn-playing businessman and his wife on honeymoon in Salzburg. Throw in a bucketful of naive enthusiasm and dogged persistence, and in 1981 the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is born. But how easy was it to bring the right selection of players from across Europe together, with only limited funds, and without mobile phones, budget airlines or the internet? Sarah Walker finds out how founders of the COE overcame the obstacles, and grew up with the orchestra that for some has become the habit of a lifetime.

With Douglas Boyd, James Judd, June Megennis, Peter Readman, Victoria Readman, Enno Senft and Elizabeth Wexler.

A Tandem Production for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3

4.55pm Part 2
Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
conductor Bernard Haitink

The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes.

Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3.