Episodes
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| 20180226 | The BBC Concert Orchestra is Tom McKinney's featured orchestra this week, starting today with a concert they gave just over a week ago at the Watford Colosseum with their new Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey, including the UK premiere of Joseph Turrin's Hemisphere, commissioned for the wind, brass and percussion of the New York Philhamonic. Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey 3.25 4.00 | |
| 20180227 | with Tom McKinney. The BBC Concert Orchestra and their conductor laureate Barry Wordsworth are joined by soprano Susan Bullock in a concert of British and American music, recorded last month at the Watford Colosseum and presented by Ian Skelly. Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody, Op 21 3.35 4.10 | |
| 20180228 | with Tom McKinney. The BBC Philharmonic and their Principal Guest conductor Ben Gernon perform live from their home in MediaCity, Salford, including the UK premiere of Bernard Rands' Concerto for English Horn and orchestra with soloist Gillian Callow. Presented by Tom Redmond. Beethoven Overture, Leonore No 2 Gillian Callow (English horn) | |
| 20180301 | John Osborn heads the cast as impoverished, lovelorn soldier Lorenzo, in pursuit of notorious bandit Fra Diavolo in this performance of Auber's once very popular three-act comic opera. More than mere justice is at stake, as Diavolo steals the dowry of Lorenzo's fiancée Zerline, who is then destined to marry old Francesco against her will. Auber: Fra Diavolo 4.15 4.40 | |
| 20180302 | Tom McKinney presents a concert from Chichester Festival Theatre, recorded in December, in which the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Michael Collins were joined by Alistair McGowan for some fairy tale words and music, and perhaps an impression or two. Arnold: Overture Beckus the Dandipratt 3.35 3.55 4.35 | |
| 20180514 | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Perth performs Smetana, Chopin and Dvorak. Penny Gore presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, beginning today with a concert the orchestra gave in Perth Concert Hall. We open with two of the poems from Smetana's mighty and evocative Ma vlast (My country); firstly Vltava, the composer's musical portrait of the river running through Prague, followed by Šarka, the tale of a warrior maiden burning for revenge. David Kadouch is the soloist in Chopin's 2nd piano concerto and the concert ends with Dvorak's 4th symphony in which we can hear his distinctive compositional style really coming into its own. Plus highlights from the orchestra's recent European tour with violinist Nikolaj Znaider. 2pm c.3.40pm | |
| A Finnish New Year | 20180101 | Performances by Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performances by Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra including music by Tchaikovsly, Stravinsky and Uuno Klami Jonathan Swain presents ballet music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, a new work by Magnus Lindberg, and a neglected oratorio by 20th century Finnish composer Uuno Klami Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite 3.40 |
| A Week in Berlin | 20181008 | Penny Gore with Dvorak, Bernstein and Mahler given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces two complete concerts given in the German capital by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. A choral masterpiece by Dvorak complements Bernstein's violin concerto-in-all-but-name and Mahler's first symphony 2.00pm 3.30pm |
| A Week in Berlin | 20181009 | Penny Gore with works by Haydn and Mozart played by Berlin's Academy for Ancient Music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore with two concerts given by Berlin's Academy for Ancient Music which enterprisingly contrast well-known major choral works with shorter pieces by lesser-known composers 2.00pm 3.25pm |
| A Week in Berlin | 20181010 | Penny Gore presents the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Mozart and Zemlinsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore presents a concert given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra earlier this year in the city's Philharmonie concert hall. One of Mozart's last great symphonies precedes the lushly-Mahlerian, seldom-heard Lyric Symphony in which Zemlinsky sets the exotic, fragrant texts of Rabindranath Tagore 2.00pm |
| A Week in Berlin | 20181012 | Penny Gore presents music by Britten, Liszt, Ades, Schoenberg and Beethoven Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore presents two concerts given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in their series "Hope in times of war". Thomas Ades conducts a death-infused programme of Britten, Liszt and his own Totentanz, while Vladimir Jurowski interpolates Schoenberg's searing A Survivor from Warsaw into Mahler's orchestration of Beethoven's final symphony 2.00pm 3.20pm |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180521 | Georgia Mann presents concerts from Sweden: music by Berwald, Schumann, Strauss and Mahler Georgia Mann launches a week of concerts from Sweden. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and their British Music Director Daniel Harding scale the heights in mountain-inspired music by Berwald, Schumann and Strauss; and Susanna Malkki conducts Mahler in Gothenburg. Franz Berwald: Reminiscences of the Norwegian Mountains c. 3.50pm Coming up later in the week: |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180522 | Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden conducted and composed by women. Georgia Mann continues her week of concerts from Sweden with a programme entirely conducted or composed by women. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel's oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion starring Sandrine Piau, Dalia Stasevska conducts Vaughan Williams and there's music by Swedish composer Britta Byström inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee. Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion), HWV 46a c. 4pm c. 4.30pm |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180523 | Georgia Mann presents the Swedish Radio SO in music by Haydn, Schnittke and Shostakovich. Georgia Mann continues this week of music from Sweden with a varied concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Omer Meir Wellber: symphonies by Haydn and Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke's ironic tribute to Mozart and Haydn, and music from 75-year-old Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström. Haydn: Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione) |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180524 | Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera. Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: a controversial production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera, with British bass Clive Bayley in the title role. Plus more highlights from recent concerts by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (original 1869 version) c. 4.05pm Aulis Sallinen: The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote, Op 58 |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180525 | Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden and previews BBC Music's Biggest Weekend in Perth. Georgia Mann ends her week in Sweden with two complete concerts by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra featuring two cello concertos and music by native composers, including an enormous Symphony by one of the most controversial of all Swedish composers, Allan Pettersson. And between those two concerts, at around half past three, there's the chance to eavesdrop on the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra performing in Perth at BBC Music's Biggest Weekend. Franz Berwald: Overture to 'Estrella de Soria' c. 3.30pm c. 3.40pm |
| Afternoon Concert With Penny Gore Featuring The Rai National Symphony Orchestra Performing Rossini's The Siege Of Corinth | 20180705 | Rossini's Le si\u00e8ge de Corinthe (Siege of Corinth) from Pesaro. Introduced by Penny Gore. Today's Opera Matinee is a rare opportunity to hear Rossini's first French opera, Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth). It was a reworking of his earlier opera for Naples, Maometto II. The basic situations and relationships between the characters are maintained from the earlier opera. After the siege and destruction of Missolonghi in 1826 by Turkish troops during the Greek War of Independence, Rossini was able to capitalize on the topicality of his subject by moving the story back a few decades to the time when Sultan Mehmed II had indeed besieged the Greek city of Corinth in the 1450s. Penny Gore introduces a recording made at last year's Rossini Festival in Pesaro starring the soprano Nino Machaidze and the bass Luca Pisaroni conducted by Roberto Abbado. Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe Pamira....Nino Machaidze (soprano) 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.05pm |
| An All-bernstein Concert With The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | 20180326 | of Amsterdam. Launching a week of concerts recorded at last year's Robeco SummerNights festival in Amsterdam, an all-Bernstein concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by John Wilson, featuring some of the best-known numbers from the American stage works including West Side Story, Candide and On The Town, as well as the Suite from his film score On the Waterfront. Plus the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra playing Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole, Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the brothers Arthur and Lucas Jussen as soloists, and highlights from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet. 2.00pm 3.35pm |
| Bach | 20171218 | The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform works by Telemann and Bach with Philippe Jaroussky. Penny Gore presents works by Telemann and Bach performed by Philippe Jaroussky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra 2.00 pm J.S. Bach 3.25 pm 4.00 pm |
| Bach | 20171219 | The Netherlands Bach Ensemble perform three cantatas by J.S Bach. Penny Gore presents three cantatas by J.S. Bach performed by the Netherlands Bach Ensemble directed by Peter Dijkstra, recorded earlier this year in Utrecht 2.00 pm 3.40pm |
| Bach | 20171220 | The BBC Philharmonic perform Bach arrangements and pieces by Steve Elcock and Alban Berg. Tom Redmond presents a concert live from MediaCityUK, Salford, in which the BBC Philharmonic performs a programme infused with the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach Steve Elcock: Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction, Op 20 |
| Bach | 20171222 | Orchestral works by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Penny Gore presents Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin J.S. Bach 3.30pm 3.50pm |
| Bbc National Chorus And Orchestra Of Wales - Friday | 20180706 | Penny Gore with choral works by James MacMillan from the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Penny Gore introduces choral works by James MacMillan performed by the BBC National Chorus of Wales conducted by Adrian Partington. And the programme ends with Bartok, Shostakovich and Sibelius from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 2.00pm 3.05pm 3.31pm 4.00pm 4.44pm |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Monday | 20180702 | Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Penny Gore launches a week of performances from The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Aldeburgh in which Mark Wigglesworth conducts an ever-popular symphony, a violin concerto that deserves to be better known and two works by the Liverpudlian composer Emily Howard. 2.00pm 3.40pm Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 30 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Op. 64a Penny Gore launches a week of performances from The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Aldeburgh in which Mark Wigglesworth conducts an ever-popular symphony, a violin concerto that deserves to be better known and two works by the Liverpudlian composer Emily Howard. 2.00pm 2.15pm 2.47pm 2.57pm 3.40pm 4.01pm 4.14pm |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Tuesday | 20180703 | Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thomas Sondergard. Penny Gore continues a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Brangwyn Hall in which Thomas Sondergard conducts the powerful 1st Symphony by Brahms and is joined by soloist Stephen Hough for the 1st Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn. 2.00pm 3.35pm Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor D.759 (Unfinished) Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26 |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Wednesday | 20180704 | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius. In today's concert, from St Davids Cathedral, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Penny Gore introduces works by Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius conducted by Nicholas Carter. 2.00pm 3.15pm |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford | 20171027 | The BBC Philharmonic perform live from Salford, plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tom Redmond presents the BBC Philharmonic, live from their home at MediaCityUK in Salford. Pavel Kolesnikov joins the orchestra for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4. And Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Eventyr by Delius, inspired by a Norwegian fairy tale. Then it's back to London with Jonathan Swain, and more from this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in concert at Maida Vale. They perform recent composition by some of the UK's most exciting living composers, including the world premiere of Gordon Crosse's Third Symphony. 2pm - LIVE from MediaCityUK Salford, presented by Tom Redmond c.3.25pm Rachel Portman: Endangered |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20180919 | John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Silvestrov and Weir Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras BBC Philharmonic Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds returns to Salford for a live broadcast of music by Valentin Silvestrov and Judith Weir After this, John Wilson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the four "Sea Interludes" Benjamin Britten extracted from his opera Peter Grimes 2.00pm 1510 |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20180926 | BBC Philharmonic and Jiri Rozen live in Dvorak, Mahler and Martinu Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, Conductor Jiri Rozen and the BBC Philharmonic perform Martinu's final symphony, his 'Fantaisies symphoniques', and one of Dvorak’s most popular orchestral works, his Serenade for Strings. They are joined by Ashley Riches for Mahler’s youthful song cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). After this, Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Knight in Armour, the early tone poem of Ruth Gipps which was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942. 2.00pm Ashley Riches (baritone) Continues: c.1520 BBC National Orchestra of Wales |
| Bbc Philharmonic: Music By George Antheil Live From Salford | 20180530 | The BBC Philharmonic celebrates the self-styled 'bad boy of music', George Antheil. Stuart Flinders presents a live invitation concert in which the BBC Philharmonic and chief guest conductor, John Storgårds, celebrate the self-styled "bad boy of music", George Antheil. Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene Antheil's First Symphony, "Zingaresca", dates from his early twenties. In 1922 Antheil announced that jazz was "one of the greatest artistic landmarks of modern art" and this symphony is a prime example of the way in which he incorporated the sounds and styles of jazz into classical music Commissioned in 1952 to write music for a ballet based on a Hemingway short story, Antheil flavours his Capital of the World suite with American, Russian and Spanish influences George Antheil: BBC Philharmonic Andrew McGregor presents a live invitation concert in which the BBC Philharmonic and chief guest conductor, John Storgårds, celebrate the self-styled "bad boy of music", George Antheil. Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene Antheil's First Symphony, "Zingaresca", dates from his early twenties. In 1922 Antheil announced that jazz was "one of the greatest artistic landmarks of modern art" and this symphony is a prime example of the way in which he incorporated the sounds and styles of jazz into classical music Commissioned in 1952 to write music for a ballet based on a Hemingway short story, Antheil flavours his Capital of the World suite with American, Russian and Spanish influences George Antheil: BBC Philharmonic |
| BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180917 | Penny Gore with music by Elgar, Dvorak, Copland and Bernstein Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces music by Elgar, Dvorak, Copland and, in his centenary year, Leonard Bernstein Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's "Enigma" Variations, while cellist and former BBC New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt joins them for concertos by Elgar and Dvorak 2.00pm 3.20pm 4.00pm |
| BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180918 | Penny Gore introduces Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and music by Richard Rodney Bennett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, as well as music by Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett Martyn Brabbins conducts Elgar's searing oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, to words by Cardinal Newman, recorded in Rotterdam during the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's European tour earlier this year Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38 1540 1620 |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180921 | Penny Gore introduces music by Haydn, Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces music by Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett in performances recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Laura van der Heijden joins the orchestra for Haydn's sunny Cello Concerto in C, written in the 1760s: it was presumed lost for two hundred years until it was discovered in a museum in Prague 2.00pm 1520 1550 |
| Bbc Singers | 20180502 | Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in a concert featuring the poetry of George Herbert. Penny Gore presents a BBC Singers concert from St Paul's, Knightsbridge featuring settings of the poetry of George Herbert. Benjamin Britten: Antiphon Andrew Rupp (baritone) |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180430 | Penny Gore presents the BBC SO playing Brahms, Britten and Tchaikovsky on tour in Japan. Penny Gore launches a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including the Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan and Switzerland with their Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Today they're at Symphony Hall in Kawasaki. Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes) 3.50pm |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180501 | Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov and Mahler on tour in Japan. Penny Gore presents the second of a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including the Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan and Switzerland with Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Today they're at Tokyo's famous Suntory Hall. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor 3.50pm |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180504 | Penny Gore presents the BBC SO in Anna Clyne, Britten and Beethoven on tour in Switzerland Penny Gore ends her week featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a concert from their recent trip to Switzerland with Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. The venue is Geneva's beautiful Victoria Hall - and yes, it is named after the English Queen Victoria... Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour 3.30pm 3.55pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171108 | Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic perform music by Vaughan Williams and Rachmaninov. Penny Gore presents a concert given by conductor Juanjo Mena at the helm of the BBC Philharmonic, featuring Vaughan Williams' overture to the incidental music for The Wasps; also, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, with pianist Stephen Hough as soloist, and finishing with Elgar's First Symphony. This concert is part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: a Century of Russian culture, exploring its impact not only in the country but beyond its frontiers. 2pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171110 | BBC Scottish SO and Martyn Brabbins perform Tchaikovsky and Elgar, with Karen Cargill. Penny Gore presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbins, including Tchaikovsky's The Tempest and his Symphony No. 6; in between them, we hear Elgar's Sea Pictures with the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as soloist. This concert is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, the 'Leningrad', performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, all part of Afternoon Concert's participation in Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, which continues next week. 2.00pm 3.35pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171113 | Verity Sharp introduces Rozhdestvensky conducting Symphonies Nos 1 and 15 by Shostakovich. As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, Afternoon Concert marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution with a week of concerts featuring major symphonic works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. In today's programme, Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducts the Dresden Staatskapelle in Symphonies Nos 1 and 15 by Shostakovich 2pm 3.35pm 4.20pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171114 | Verity Sharp introduces David Afkam conducting Shostakovich's powerful 5th Symphony. Continuing our week of concerts featuring major symphonic works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which David Afkam conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. Also includes Sofia Gubaidulina's soulful Viola Concerto with Lawrence Power. 2pm 3.30pm 4.05pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171115 | Verity Sharp introduces performances of Prokofiev's 1st Symphony and 1st Violin Concerto. Afternoon Concert marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution with a concert featuring a couple of major Russian symphonic works. In today's programme, Verity Sharp introduces performances of Prokofiev's First Symphony and First Violin Concerto with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Markus Poschner 2pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171117 | Afternoon Concert finishes the Russian-themed week with Shostakovich's 10th Symphony. Afternoon Concert finishes a week marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In today's programme Verity Sharp introduces a concert featuring Shostakovich's 10th Symphony and Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Dorothea Roschmann with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkam. Also includes a performance his infectious Second Jazz Suite 2pm 3.25pm 3.45pm 4.30pm Petroc Trelawny presents highlights from a concert recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios on Wednesday. The BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are joined by young musicians supported by projects which receive funding from BBC Children in Need. John Williams: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Suite Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg arr. John Barber: Somewhere over the rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (world premiere) Shermann Brothers arr Jeffes/Rossiter: Children in Need Sherman Medley (world premiere) ABBA arr Jeffes/Rossiter: ABBA-DABBA-DOO Sly and the Family Stone arr John Barber : Everyday People |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture - Bbc Symphony Orchestra / Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra | 20171106 | Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO in music by Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. Penny Gore presents, starting Afternoon in Concert's participation in Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. First, a concert given by Semyon Bychkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra focusing on repertoire by Tchaikovsky, including his Serenade in C major for string orchestra, his Third Piano Concerto, with Kirill Gerstein as soloist, and his symphonic fantasia after Dante, Francesca da Rimini; before the latter they perform Taneyev concert overture The Oresteia. The afternoon continues with the Doric Quartet joining the ensemble, this time under Edward Gardner, in Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra. Finally, closing the programme, the BBC Phiharmonic, under the baton of Andrew Litton, perform Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905. 2.00pm 3.35pm 3.50pm |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture; Live From Lenin's London Office | 20171107 | Tom Service hosts an afternoon of Russian music to explore the legacy of the past century. Afternoon Concert becomes "A Century of Russian Culture" - for one afternoon, marking the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. LIVE from Lenin's office in London, where he edited "Iskra" in 1902-3, in what is now the Marx Memorial Library. Tom Service hosts a panel of distinguished guests, Dr. Marina Frolova-Walker, Orlando Figes and Victoria Donovan to play and discuss music and culture across the past hundred years in Russia. From the lead up to 1917, to the explosion of energy swiftly followed by social chaos and civil war, corralled into Socialist Realism in the early 1930s and harnessed to the will of the state, Russian Culture and music in particular illuminate ideas, individual lives and society as a whole against a backdrop of a suspicious and controlling state. Including the first modern performance (given in Moscow in September) of a piece for choir and orchestra by a hero of Russian Futurism and ardent Bolshevik, Alexander Mosolov, who fell first from favour in the 30s and was then sentenced to hard labour in a Gulag. Mosolov: Symphonic Poem |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180507 | Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Mahler and Bizet. This week's programmes celebrate last year's Verbier Festival and other prestigious Swiss music festivals Today, Jonathan Swain presents a late piano concerto by Mozart and Mahler's death-obsessed ninth symphony, as well as sparkling French bonbons 2.00 pm 4.00 pm |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180509 | Jonathan Swain presents music by Copland, Lutoslawski and Prokofiev. Jonathan Swain with music by Copland, Lutoslawski and Prokofiev, plus a rare concerto by flamboyant jazz virtuoso Artie Shaw The Verbier Festival Orchestra is joined in today's programme by clarinet maestro Martin Frost in a concert of jazzy works by Copland, Lutoslawski and Shaw, as well as a carefully-chosen selection of extracts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet 2.00 pm |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180511 | Jonathan Swain with orchestral showstoppers by Tchaikovsky and rare baroque pieces. Jonathan Swain presents two of Tchaikovsky's best-loved works, along with a fascinating selection of baroque arias and concertos In today's programme, Jonathan pairs Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and fourth symphony with little-known Glazunov, which contrasts with a selection of baroque music by Vivaldi, Mancini and Hasse 2.00 pm 3.30 pm |
| Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals | 20180508 | Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner and Catalani, as well as baroque opera arias. Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner, Catalani, Tartini, Chausson and a sequence of rare baroque opera arias recorded at last year's St. Gallen and Meirigen music festivals in Switzerland Conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died last year, created an orchestral masterpiece from one of Bruckner's lesser-known chamber works. In today's programme, it is paired with an even less well-known choral work by opera composer Alfredo Catalani, as well and chamber works by Lekeu, Turina and Chausson 2.00 pm 2.55 pm 4.25 pm |
| Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals | 20180510 | Jonathan Swain presents a Vespers service compiled from music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli. Jonathan Swain presents a Vespers service compiled from music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli recorded at last year's Zurich Early Music Festival Early music specialist Andrea Marcon leads the renowned La Cetra baroque orchestra and vocal ensemble. His selection includes Monteverdi's second Dixit Dominus a 8, his first Beatus vir a 6 and the first Magnificat a 8 Monteverdi and Gabrieli: Venetian Vespers 3.40pm |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180528 | BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Haydn, Mozart, John Joubert and Guto Puw. Penny Gore presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Haydn, Mozart, John Joubert and Guto Puw Violinist Rachel Podger directs the orchestra in classical repertoire, followed by specially recorded performances including the world premiere of Guto Puw's 'Camouflage' 2.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.35pm |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180529 | BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Sibelius, Nielsen and Hoddinott. Penny Gore with works by Sibelius, Nielsen and Hoddinott played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Sondergard leads the orchestra in Scandinavian works both well and less-well known, followed by new and recent works by exciting composers from Wales and further afield 2.00pm 3.30pm 3.55pm 4.05pm 4.30pm |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180601 | BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Strauss, Brahms and B Tommy Andersson. Penny Gore presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Strauss, Brahms and B Tommy Andersson Polish soprano Aga Mikolaj joins the orchestra for Richard Strauss's ravishing Four Last Songs, and there are new and recent works by Simon Holt, John Joubert and B Tommy Andersson 2.00pm 3.10pm 3.20pm 3.45pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 4.40pm |
| Eurovision Young Musicians Final | 20180824 | The final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 from the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Petroc Trelawny and Josie d'Arby present coverage of the final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, as six youthful soloists vie for the title. Each finalist performs a concerto movement with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard, and the winner is chosen by a jury of eminent musicians including Sir James MacMillan and Marin Alsop. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Cardiff | 20171020 | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Nicola Heyward Thomas introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Baritone Ashley Riches sings Russian repertoire, and the orchestra celebrates Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with a programme dedicated to the form, and examples by Shostakovich, Scriabin and Liszt. Then it's back to the studio with Penny Gore for Sibelius's Fifth Symphony and another tone poem - Richard Arnell's portrait of Lord Byron. 2pm Shostakovich: October - symphonic poem, Op.131 Interval music c.3pm c.3.50pm back to the studio with Penny Gore Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op.82 c.4.25pm |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171208 | Tom Redmond introduces a concert of music by Stravinsky, Sibelius and Beethoven. Tom Redmond introduces today's concert from the BBC Philharmonic, featuring music by Stravinsky as well as a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Michael Seal conducts the orchestra in Bantock's tone poem 'Fifine at the Fair', and Mark Simpson performs Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto. 2pm: c.3.40pm: c.4.10pm: c.4.25pm: |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180316 | Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, including Kathryn Stott as the soloist in Rachmaninov's first piano concerto, and Sibelius's first symphony. c.2pm: c.3.20pm: c.3.25pm: c.3.35pm: c.4.10pm: |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180629 | Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the orchestra, including Korngold's Violin Concerto with soloist Andrew Haveron, and Vaughan Williams' fifth symphony. 2pm: c.3.30pm: c.3.50pm: c.4.05pm: c.4.15pm: c.4.45pm: |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20171013 | Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford. Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring a complete performance of Smetana's 'Ma vlast' - part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme. Plus performances of Sibelius's first symphony and Elgar's Falstaff. 2pm c. 3.25pm c. 4pm c. 4.20pm |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20171124 | Ian Skelly presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ian Skelly presents performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. This afternoon's 2pm concert, recorded in Inverness, features orchestral masterpieces by 19th-century composers: Brahms's Haydn Variations, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Strauss's tone poem Aus Italien. Then, music by Bohemian composers: Dvorak's overture to his little-known opera Vanda opens this concert, which also includes Janacek's Suite for Strings, and Dvorak's folk-tale inspired The Wild Dove, reflecting Afternoon Concert's continuing exploration of the romantic tone poem. Plus Messiaen's L'Ascension, four meditations on the Ascension of Christ. 2pm c. 3.30pm c.4.30pm |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180427 | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Bartok. Georgia Mann concludes her week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert which combined Bartok's folk influenced music with contributions from folk musicians, singer Nóri Kovács and Parapács. This was followed by Bartok's Music for strings, percussion and celesta. Plus more from two new recordings which have been featured across the week. 2pm c.3.30pm Corea Children's songs, arr. saxophone and Orchestra [orig. for piano] |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180518 | Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart Bridge and Britten Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, directed from the violin by their Leader Laura Samuel, in music by Mozart, Bridge and Benjamin Britten. Plus Beethoven's rousing Eroica symphony to round off the week. 2pm c.4.05pm |
| Friday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180216 | Kate Molleson rounds off her week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers with a concert the orchestra gave last week at the Barbican, London. James Feddeck conducted Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Javier Perianes joined them for Ravel's G major Piano Concerto. Plus a recording of Szymanowski's 2nd Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Karawane with the BBC Symphony Chorus. 2pm c.3.30pm c.3.45pm Bernstein: Touches - Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda for piano c.4.20pm |
| Friday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171006 | Penny Gore presents concerts from the Radio France Philharmonic. Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings to launch Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert. Today's 2pm concert features an all-Mozart programme, beginning with his thrilling and tense overture to his opera, Don Giovanni. Today's Mozart Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K.491 is performed by leading French pianist, Jean-Claude Pennetier, a prize winner in both the Gabriel Faure and Marguerite Long piano competitions, and the concert concludes with Mozart's Haffner Symphony. Plus there are symphonies by Schubert and Schumann. 2pm c. 3.15pm c. 4.25pm |
| Friday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180309 | Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich recorded in Edinburgh, and Schumann with violinist Ilya Gringolts from a concert recorded in Leeds. 2pm 3.40pm 4.00pm Afternoon Concert this week focuses on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and concludes with a concert they gave at Edinburgh's Usher Hall in December. They were joined by the powerhouse Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin for Tchaikovsky's enduringly popular First Piano Concerto, while the second half of the concert was given over to Shostakovich's giant depiction of the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution: his Symphony No 11. That's followed by a pair of orchestral depictions of winter by the Scottish composer Helen Grime, her Two Eardley Pictures: 'Catterline in Winter' and 'Snow'. Then there's a recording made in Leeds last November, in which the Russian virtuoso Ilya Gringolts joined the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Schumann's Violin Concerto. This was a work, written towards the end of the composer's troubled life, that remained unheard for over 80 years, finally seeing the light of day in the 1930s. |
| Friday - The Bbc Singers Live From Temple Church, City Of London & The Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live From Maida Vale | 20171215 | Live from London's Temple Church the BBC Singers with contemporary choral Christmas pieces Afternoon Concert's week of live performances from the BBC performing groups concludes with two concerts from London. First to Temple Church, in the City of London for the BBC Singers conducted by Owain Park, with a selection of contemporary choral Christmas pieces. Roger Sayer accompanies them on the organ. Then to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's home at Maida Vale studios in London, for a concert under the baton of Tung-Chien Chuang including Liadov's tone poem Baba Yaga, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, with Alexander Soumm as soloist, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor. 2pm - LIVE from Temple Church, City of London, presented by Ian Skelly BBC Singers 3.15pm LIVE from Maida Vale, London, presented by Petroc Trelawny Alexander Soumm (violin) |
| Friday - The Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180202 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Barbican in London. Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert they gave at the Barbican in November with a programme of Ruders, Shostakovich and Strauss. The BBC Symphony Chorus join the Orchestra for the Beatitudes by Bliss, and Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with music by Dohnanyi. 2pm c.3.20pm c.3.35pm c.4.05pm |
| Friday - The 'best Of 2017' Featuring The Bbc Sso, Bbc Singers And Bbc So | 20171229 | The Best of 2017, featuring the BBC SSO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan Swain concludes his 'Best of 2017' week from the BBC performing groups. Today features a concert the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra gave at the Muskverein in Vienna last month, for which they were joined by violinist Nicolai Znaider for Brahms' Violin Concerto. Then to the BBC Singers and highlights of a Palestrina and Bruckner concert they gave at St Giles' Cripplegate in London's Barbican. And finally to the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius' complete Lemminkainen Legends. 2pm c.3.45pm c.4.10pm |
| Friday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180323 | Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing Brahms, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Symphonies by Brahms and Sibelius bookend today's programme. which also includes a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto - a work which is now cherished, but was largely ignored during the composer's lifetime. 2pm 3.25pm 3.35pm 4.15pm |
| Friday - Ulster Orchestra | 20171103 | Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Bax, Alwyn and Vaughan Williams, together with First Symphonies by Beethoven and Mahler. 2pm 3.25pm 4.20pm |
| Friday: Mendelssohn and Shostakovich | 20180914 | The Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Shostakovich Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond brings to an end a week of concerts recorded in Belgium. Today's concert features the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Arming performing Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13. Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream c.3.45pm: |
| International Women's Day | 20180308 | Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, chooses music she loves by women composers. Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, is Kate Molleson's live guest in the Afternoon Concert studio for International Women's Day. Our Opera Matinee is Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom, and it's complemented by music she loves by women composers from Hildegard to Saariaho. Opera Matinee Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Overture to Céphale et Procris Kate Whitley: I am I say Kaija Saariaho: Petals Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso (Heraclitus in Love) Arlene Sierra: Aquilo Judith Bingham: Vol de nuit, from The Secret Garden Hildegard of Bingen: work TBC Sofiya Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 4 Weir: Moon and Star |
| Lucerne Festival 2017: Bernard Haitink Conducts The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe | 20180117 | Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. Tom McKinney presents a concert of music by Mozart and Mahler with Bernard Haitink conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. 2pm |
| Minnesota Orchestra - Copland, Bruch, Dvorak | 20180221 | Penny Gore continues a week of music-making from the American Mid-West. This afternoon is devoted to a concert by the Minnesota Orchestra with their Music Director Osmo Vänskä, in which they're joined by the American-Korean violinist Esther Yoo to play Bruch's First Violin Concerto. Copland's Lincoln Portrait for orchestra and speaker, and Dvorak's celebration of the United States, his New World Symphony, complete the programme. 2pm The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today's programme is devoted to the Minnesota Orchestra, and a concert from last season in which the American-Korean violinist, and graduate of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme, Esther Yoo, joined the orchestra to play Bruch's First Violin Concerto, still considered one of the cornerstones of the violin repertoire. It's a cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire that follows: Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. The American themes it explores have earned it the soubriquet 'From the New World'. And it's an American work which opens proceedings: Copland's stately Lincoln Portrait for orchestra and speaker. The Minnesota Orchestra play Bruch's First Violin Concerto with violinist Esther Yoo. |
| Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - Brahms, Stravinsky, Marsalis, Mozart | 20180219 | Penny Gore introduces a week of music making from the American Mid-West. In this first programme, the Minnesota Orchestra under its Music Director Osmo Vänskä, performs music by Brahms and Stravinsky, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs works by Wynton Marsalis and Mozart, joined by guest director and soloist Richard Egarr. 2pm 3.35pm 4.15pm The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Under the baton of their Finnish Music Director Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra starts the week with two staples of the classical repertoire: Brahms First Piano Concerto and Stravinsky's simmering ballet score for The Rite of Spring. The prodigious Polish virtuoso Rafal Blechacz is tasked with tackling Brahms's daunting technical demands. That's followed by a performance of Wynton Marsalis's String Quartet No 1 featuring players from The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Subtitled 'At the Octoroon Balls', the piece is a celebration of the Creole culture in New Orleans. To finish, the British early music specialist Richard Egarr joins The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for an authentic 18th century-style performance of Mozart's 12th Piano Concerto, including extra improvised passages that Wolfgang Amadeus himself might have played in the European salons. |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20171016 | Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Berlioz and Saint-Saens. Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with one of the most programmatic of symphonies - Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique - paired with a modern-day take on the symphony from Tan Dun. There's more French programmatic music, this time by Saint-Saëns, along with Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.1 performed by Matthew Trusler. 2pm c.3.25pm Saint-Saëns: Phaéton - symphonic poem, Op.39 Peter Dickinson: Monologue for Strings Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.19 Satie: Parade - ballet |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert | 20180122 | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW. Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Across the week Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Smetana and Respighi, plus we hear the fruits of the Orchestra's Beethoven Symphony Cycle recorded during a recent tour of North Wales with Principal Guest conductor Xian Zhang, and the cellist Alexey Stadler performs from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 2pm c. 3.15pm Prokofiev: Scythian Suite from "Ala i Lolly", Op 20 c. 4.30pm |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live In Cardiff | 20171211 | Live from Cardiff music by Elgar with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This week features the BBC performing groups live in concert, beginning today with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Hoddinott Hall. Tadaaki Otaka conducts an all-Elgar repertoire, starting with the Cockaigne overture, followed by Sea Pictures with contralto Claudia Huckle as soloist, then the Serenade in E minor for string orchestra, ending this concerto with In the south overture (Alassio). The afternoon continues with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded recently at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh under the baton of Thomas Dausgaard, first with Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G major, then with Mahler's Symphony No. 7. 2.00pm Presented by Nicola Hayward Thomas LIVE from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Claudia Huckle (contralto) 3.45pm - Back to Broadcasting House with Verity Sharp BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171009 | Tom Redmond presents concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, focusing on works by Elgar. Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, with a particular focus on works by Elgar. The 2pm concert features Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist David Garrett and a performance of Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony. 2pm c. 3.30pm Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Elgar: Serenade for Strings |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171204 | Pietari Inkinen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius. Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today Pietari Inkinen conducts symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius, with Christian Ihle Hadland as the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad is soloist in Britten's Lachrymae, and Martin Grubinger is the percussionist in Tan Dun's concerto "The Tears of Nature". 2pm: c.3.30pm: c.3.40pm: c.4.15pm: |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180312 | The BBC Philharmonic perform a selection of Beethoven and his connections. Kate Molleson introduces a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic with a focus on Beethoven and his connections, including a performance of Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto with pianist Louis Schwitzgebel. c.2pm: c.3.30pm: c.3.55pm: |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk | 20180625 | Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the orchestra's home in Salford, including Rachmaninov's second symphony. This week there is also a focus on music by Aaron Copland, with John Wilson conducting the orchestra. 2pm: c.3.15pm: c.3.30pm: c.4.10pm: c.4.15pm: c.4.20pm: c.4.35pm: |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20171120 | Georgia Mann presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Georgia Mann presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In our 2pm concert, Thomas Dausgaard conducts the orchestra and Royal Conservatoire Voices in a concert featuring music by Palestrina, Mozart and Gluck, as well as Handel's choral masterpiece, Zadok the Priest, and Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Later, Martyn Brabbins and the orchestra showcase two works reflecting the diverse and distinctive nature of 20th-century British orchestral music around the time of the Second World War: Roger Sacheverell Coke's Piano Concerto No.3, brings to mind the emotional appeal of Rachmaninov, Delius and Percy Grainger, while Michael Tippett's driven and exuberant First Symphony, draws inspiration from the music of Henry Purcell. 2pm c.3.35pm c.4.00pm |
| Monday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20171023 | BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Bonn plus new recordings of Rachmaninov and Bernstein. Jonathan Swain presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave last month on tour in Bonn, for which they were joined by Isabelle Faust for Berg's lyrical Violin Concerto. Plus new recordings of Rachmaninov's ever-popular Second Piano Concerto with soloist Yevgeny Sudbin, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short. 2pm c.3.25pm Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18 Gershwin: An American in Paris |
| Monday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180212 | Kate Molleson presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Today includes a concert the Orchestra gave at its home in Maida Vale Studios; Robin Tritschler joined as soloist in Britten's Illuminations. Plus an award-winning recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus were joined by a stellar group of soloists - Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton and David Soar. Andrew Davis conducts. 2pm c.2.55pm c.3.10pm |
| Monday - European Concert Showcase | 20171127 | Herbert Blomstedt conducts Mendelssohn with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Tom McKinney presents a selection of the finest concerts from across Europe all this week, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Today Herbert Blomstedt, who turned 90 this year, conducts Mendelssohn's Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 in a concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in a concert recorded in March 2017 in the opening gala week at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg. 2pm: c.3.25pm: Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11 |
| Monday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171002 | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Radio France Philharmonic. Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in two concerts to launch Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert programme. Our first concert at 2pm features works inspired by musical trends from the USA. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is heavily influenced by the sounds of jazz, which Ravel heard during a US concert tour in 1928, and in Dvorak's Symphony No.9 'From the New World', the composer draws inspiration on the music of native Americans. For our second concert, showcases the orchestra in works from the Classical era, Haydn's Symphony 'La Passione', and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K.595, a previous winner of the highly-acclaimed Clara Haskil Competition. 2pm c. 3.30pm |
| Monday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180205 | Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The programme starts with a concert the orchestra gave in Haddington with Martyn Brabbins conducting. Rowan Pierce joined the orchestra for concert arias by Mozart and the solo soprano part in Mahler's Fourth Symphony. Thomas Dausgaard conducts Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Clare Howick is soloist in a new recording of Gordon Jacob's Violin Concerto. 2pm c.3.35pm c.3.55pm |
| Monday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180305 | Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with music by four English composers: Edward Elgar, William Walton, Dorothy Howell and Richard Rodney Bennett. Also on the programme: a recording of Beethoven's breakthrough Eroica Symphony. 2pm 3.20pm 3.45pm 4.30pm English music features largely in today's Afternoon Concert. To begin, there's the two sides of Edward Elgar: on the one hand his playful overture Cockaigne; on the other his powerful Cello Concerto, a rite-of-passage for many a cellist, today in the capable hands of Leonard Elschenbroich. William Walton's First Symphony caused the composer plenty of problems before he finally arrived at a version with which he was satisfied. Indeed, the first public performance had to be given without the finale. That finale is intact in this afternoon's recording. Elsewhere, John Wilson conducts music by the versatile Sir Richard Rodney Bennett; there's a rarely heard piano concerto from Dorothy Howell, and a performance given last November in Leeds of Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'. |
| Monday - The Best Of 2017 - Bbc Symphony Chorus | 20171225 | The BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Neil Ferris, in carols from Maida Vale Studios. This week Afternoon Concert features the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups. Today features a Christmas Concert performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus with their new choral director Neil Ferris, with a striking sequence of carols. Their selection mixes reflection, fireside warmth, and celebration, and features Christmas favourites alongside newer compositions and arrangements from Kerry Andrew, Mark Boden, Michael Higgins, Bernard Hughes, Cecilia McDowall and Becky McGlade. Presented by Penny Gore Mark David Boden: Awake glad heart BBC Symphony Chorus |
| Monday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180319 | Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy. Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy and as part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme. 2pm 3.35pm 3.45pm 4pm 4.15pm |
| Monday - Ulster Orchestra | 20171030 | Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, James Macmillan and Prokofiev, as well as rare performance of John Ireland's Piano Concerto, written in 1930. 2pm 3.20pm 3.50pm |
| Monday: Handel's Samson | 20180910 | Tom Redmond presents Handel\u2019s Samson, recorded at Les Wallonies Festival in Namur, Belgium Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's intensely dramatic oratorio Samson, based on Milton's tragic poem on the Biblical story of Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival, with the rising-star Argentinian conductor Leonardo García Alarcón. George Frideric Handel: Samson c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32 Tom Redmond presents Handel\u2019s Samson recorded at Les Wallonies Festival in Namur, Belgium Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's oratorio Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival. George Frideric Handel: Samson c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32 Tom Redmond presents Handel\u2019s Samson, recorded at Les Wallonies Festival in Namur, Belgium Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's intensely dramatic oratorio Samson, based on Milton's tragic poem on the Biblical story of Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival, with the rising-star Argentinian conductor Leonardo García Alarcón. George Frideric Handel: Samson c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32 Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's oratorio Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival. George Frideric Handel: Samson c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32 |
| Mondaybbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk | 20180625 | |
| New Year New Music | 20180105 | Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about Arvo Part. With Jonathan Swain. Arvo Pärt: Symphony No 4, 'Los Angeles' 2.35pm |
| New Year New Music - Conductor Esa-pekka Salonen Talks About Conducting John Adams | 20180102 | This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he talks about his recordings of music by John Adams Presented by Jonathan Swain John Adams: Naïve and Sentimental Music 2.50pm Kaija Saariaho: Harp Concerto |
| New Year New Music: Thursday Opera Matinee | 20180104 | The world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water. This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year, New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he looks at high modernism and introduces extracts from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre followed by Thursday Opera Matinee: Jonathan Swain presents the world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water to a libretto by Lassi Nummi Finland's Olavinlinna Castle was built in the middle ages to safeguard the strategically important region of Savo. Over the years, it has seen many changes of regime, clashing swords and thundering cannons. The Castle in the Water, a new opera commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival, pictures stages in the Castle's and region's colourful past, and takes a tentative look into the future Aulis Sallinen describes his composition as: 'A chronicle for speaker, four singers, orchestra and Olavinlinna'. The work is based on the collection of poetry, "The Castle in the Water" by Lassi Nummi, from which Sallinen has chosen two texts as mottos for the whole work Aulis Sallinen: Castle in the Water |
| New Year, New Music - Conductor Esa-pekka Salonen Talks About Electronic Music | 20180103 | This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he talks about electronic music Presented by Jonathan Swain Esa-Pekka Salonen: Cello Concerto 2.20pm |
| Opera Matinee - A Week in Berlin | 20181011 | A performance of Strauss, Weinberg, Sibelius and Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces a performance of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas coupled in an imaginative programme with Strauss's existential tone poem Death and Transfiguration. Also Gidon Kremer joins conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Berlin's German Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's violin concerto. 2.00pm 3.00pm 3.25pm |
| Opera Matinee: Don Giovanni | 20180927 | Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded at the Teatro Regio, Turin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded this summer at the Teatro Regio, Turin starring Carlos Álvarez, Erika Grimaldi & Mirco Palazzi. Daniele Rustioni conducts. After the enormous success of The Marriage of Figaro, one of the managers of Prague’s Nostitz Theatre commissioned Mozart for another work. He wanted to work with the librettist Da Ponte again who, captivated by the story of Don Juan, was happy to oblige. The action follows the adventures of the roguish, womanising Giovanni, mixing comedy, tragedy and drama with the supernatural as his acts of betrayal and even murder finally catch up with him. 2.00pm Don Giovanni, a nobleman....Carlos Álvarez, baritone This afternoon's broadcast is the second in a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday we’ll hear Così fan tutte performed by Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski |
| Opera Matinee: Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten | 20180614 | Kate Molleson presents Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera. Kate Molleson presents a Bavarian State Opera production of Franz Schreker's psychological tragedy Die Gezeichneten - "The Stigmatised". A heady mix of sex, violence, deformity and art set in 16th-century Genoa, the opera has been aptly characterised as a kind of cross between The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Duke Adorno....Tomasz Konieczny (bass) Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
| Opera Matinee: Gounod's Le Tribut De Zamora | 20180607 | Jonathan Swain celebrates Gounod's 200th birthday with his final opera Le Tribut de Zamora Jonathan Swain celebrates Charles Gounod's 200th birthday on 17 June with a broadcast of his final opera, Le Tribut de Zamora, a tall tale of love, war, heroism and madness in 10th-century Spain. Xaïma... Judith van Wanroij (soprano) |
| Opera Matinee: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito | 20180628 | Tom McKinney introduces a performance from the 2017 Salzburg Festival of Mozart's opera. Tom McKinney introduces a performance from the 2017 Salzburg Festival of Mozart's last opera, a tale of sexual obsession and divided loyalties, set in Ancient Rome. Director Peter Sellars and conductor Teodor Currentzis created a special performing-version of this opera for the Festival: shortening some of the recitatives but also including some music from Mozart's Mass K. 427, as well as the 'Adagio und Fuge, K. 546' and the Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477. 2pm: Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà after the libretto of the same name (1734) by Pietro Metastasio Cast: Tito Vespasiano....Russell Thomas (tenor) musicAeterna choir |
| Opera Matinee: Orlando Furioso | 20180712 | Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso. Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso recorded in the Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca as part of the Festival della Valle d'Itria. Based on the epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto and with a libretto by Grazio Braccioli, Vivaldi's three act opera centres around a malicious sorceress, Alcina, and the wicked confusion she creates on her magic island. It is tour de force for the cast of singers and a production is a must see for lovers of baroque opera. This recording, made at the atmospheric Palazzo Ducale, in Martina Franca, in southern Italy, was given as part of the Festival della Valle d'Itria before the production was transferred with great acclaim to Vivaldi's home city of Venice. Sonia Prina - (contralto) Orlando Orchestra: I Barocchisti Synopsis Act 1 Alcina is attracted to the knight Ruggiero. She uses her magic to make him forget Bradamante and love her instead. Bradamante discovers Ruggiero's "betrayal." She shows him the ring he gave her therefore breaking Alcina's spell. Ruggiero feels guilty for his actions. Act 2 Meanwhile, in a mountainous alpine region with a high, precipitous cliff, Angelica and Medoro swear their love and part ways. To rid herself of Orlando, Angelica sends him to fight a monster who guards an elixir of youth. Orlando enters a cavern and is trapped. Realizing Angelica's faithlessness, he digs his way out. Angelica and Medoro marry in a countryside at the foot of a hill. They carve their vows on a nearby tree. Orlando finds the tree, and on reading the inscription, becomes so furious that he starts destroying the trees. Act 3 Inside the temple of Hecate, Bradamante disguises herself as a man. Alcina falls in love with her. Orlando, still raving mad about the marriage of Angelica and Medoro, fights with the temple statues, inadvertently destroying Alcina's power. In a deserted island. Alcina tries to attack the sleeping Orlando, but is prevented by Ruggiero and Bradamante. Astolfo returns to arrest Alcina. Orlando regains his reason and forgives Angelica and Medoro. Episode image by Studio Amati Bacciardi. Rossini's Le si\u00e8ge de Corinthe (Siege of Corinth) from Pesaro. Introduced by Penny Gore |
| Opera Matinee: Puccini Double Bill. | 20180621 | Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee consisting of a Puccini double bill. Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee, consisting of a Puccini double-bill, recorded at the Teatro Monumental, Madrid by the Chorus and Orchestra of Spanish Radio. Puccini: Le villi Guglielmo Wolf....Vladimir Chernov (baritone) 3.10: Edgar Edgar....Marcello Giordani (tenor) In Le villi, Puccini's first work for the stage, Roberto and Anna are engaged to be married. But Roberto must leave before the ceremony to collect an inheritance, and Anna worries that she will never see him again. Her anxiety is fully justified, as he falls into the hands of Le villi, the fairies. |
| Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico | 20180531 | Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico by the Bavarian State Opera. Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico from the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Kirill Petrenko Jealousy and murder, loss and suicide, romance and trickery all feature in Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas, taking us from the gritty banks of the River Seine, to a convent doomed to tragedy, finally on to knock-about comedy 2.00pm 2.50pm 3.40pm Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Children's Chorus We continue this week's survey of recent performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with: 4.35pm Penny Gore present's a production of Puccini's Il trittico from the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Kirill Petrenko Jealousy and murder, loss and suicide, romance and trickery all feature in Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas, taking us from the gritty banks of the River Seine, to a convent doomed to tragedy, finally on to knock-about comedy 2.00pm 2.50pm 3.40pm Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Children's Chorus |
| Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Golden Cockerel | 20171109 | Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 with the BBC NOW. As part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, Penny Gore presents our opera matinée featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, a satire of Russian absolutism and imperialism, inspired on a poem by Pushkin. Ivor Bolton conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real in Madrid with the bass Dmitiri Ulyanov as Tsar Dodon, the tenor Sergei Skorokhodov as Tsarevich Gvidon and the soprano Venera Gimadieva as the Tsaritsa of Shemakha. Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, a concert fantasy by Efrem Zimbalist and Hymn to the Sun by Fritz Kreisler. The opera is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 12, performed by the National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Thomas Sondergard. 2.00pm Tsar Dodon.. Dmitiri Ulyanov (bass) 4.15pm |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's Barber Of Seville | 20180118 | Tom McKinney presents Rossini's comic favourite The Barber of Seville. Tom McKinney presents Rossini's comic favourite The Barber of Seville from Geneva, conducted by Jonathan Nott. Plus a world premiere by Matthew Kaner at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. The enterprising Sevillian barber Figaro takes the operatic world by storm as he fixes up his boss Count Almaviva's elopement with Rosina. This being comic opera, pretty much everything that can go wrong does go wrong, giving Rossini the excuse for two and a half hours of sparkling music. The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) 4.35pm The Barber of Seville is the second of a trilogy of Rossini operas on Radio 3 this January: Opera on 3 on 6 January featured the Royal Opera's production of his tragedy Semiramide, starring Joyce DiDonato (now available on the Radio 3 website), and Opera Matinee next Thursday (25 January) is his rarely heard Biblical drama Moses in Egypt. |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's The Siege Of Corinth | 20180705 | Rossini's Le si\u00e8ge de Corinthe (Siege of Corinth) from Pesaro. Introduced by Penny Gore. Today's Opera Matinee is a rare opportunity to hear Rossini's first French opera, Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth). It was a reworking of his earlier opera for Naples, Maometto II. The basic situations and relationships between the characters are maintained from the earlier opera. After the siege and destruction of Missolonghi in 1826 by Turkish troops during the Greek War of Independence, Rossini was able to capitalize on the topicality of his subject by moving the story back a few decades to the time when Sultan Mehmed II had indeed besieged the Greek city of Corinth in the 1450s. Penny Gore introduces a recording made at last year's Rossini Festival in Pesaro starring the soprano Nino Machaidze and the bass Luca Pisaroni conducted by Roberto Abbado. Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe Pamira....Nino Machaidze (soprano) 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.05pm Episode image by Studio Amati Bacciardi Synopsis Act 1 Cléomène, Governor of Corinth, recommends surrender to Mahomet II and his Turkish army but Néocles, an officer in the Greek army wishes to press the attack. Cléomène is so impressed by Néocles's bravery that he proposes Néocles marry his daughter, Pamyre. To Cléomène's anger however, Pamyre has fallen in love with a mysterious stranger (Mahomet in disguise) who recently visited the city. Cléomène is taken captive during Néocles's assault. Mahomet offers a bargain - Cléomène's freedom in return for the hand of his daughter. Cléomène protests - preferring her still to marry Néocles but she refuses and is traded to Mahomet in return for the governer's freedom. Act 2 Mahomet and Pamyre's wedding plans are disrupted by Néocles, who has come to demand Pamyre's return. Pretending that he is her brother, Pamyre flees with Néocles. Mahomet is furious and swears bloody revenge on Corinth. Act 3 In the tombs of Corinth, the Greeks prepare for their last stand. Cléomène laments Pamyre's betrayal as a chorus of Greek women are heard praying in the distance. Mahomet makes one last attempt to win Pamyre through diplomatic means but is rebuffed. He resolves to take back Pamyre through military means instead. Néocles reunites Pamyre with her father as the Greeks recall past victories and pray for success in the coming battle. Their prayers are in vein however as the Turkish forces overwhelm them. Descending to the catacombs in search of his would-be bride, Mahamot discovers that Pamyre has committed suicide along with the other women of Corinth. Today's Opera Matinee is a rare opportunity to hear Rossini's first French opera, Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth). It was a reworking of his earlier opera for Naples, Maometto II. The basic situations and relationships between the characters are maintained from the earlier opera. After the siege and destruction of Missolonghi in 1826 by Turkish troops during the Greek War of Independence, Rossini was able to capitalize on the topicality of his subject by moving the story back a few decades to the time when Sultan Mehmed II had indeed besieged the Greek city of Corinth in the 1450s. Penny Gore introduces a recording made at last year's Rossini Festival in Pesaro starring the soprano Nino Machaidze and the bass Luca Pisaroni conducted by Roberto Abbado. Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe Pamira....Nino Machaidze (soprano) 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.05pm |
| Opera Matinee: The Marriage Of Figaro | 20180920 | Penny Gore introduces Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro recorded at Bavaria's State Opera Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore introduces Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro recorded last year at Bavaria's State Opera starring Christian Gerhaher, Federica Lombardi and Alex Esposito. Constantinos Carydis conducts Christof Loy's production Mozart's opera, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, caused a storm in the eighteenth century for its revolutionary portrayal of class, intrigue and morals. 2.00pm Count Almaviva, local nobleman....Christian Gerhaher, bass This afternoon's broadcast kicks off a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday features Don Giovanni |
| Opera Matinee: Weber's Oberon | 20180503 | Penny Gore presents a production of Weber's fantasy opera Oberon from Bavarian State Opera This week's Opera Matinee features some of the best operatic music you've never heard. Productions of Weber's fantasy opera Oberon are like hen's teeth (or perhaps unicorns' horns) because the plot is even more crazy than most in opera, there's too much talking, and Weber died young before he could replace the spoken dialogue with music. But for this broadcast of a lively new production from Bavarian State Opera we've minimised the talking to leave you with the music Weber did compose. And it's absolutely brilliant. Presented by Penny Gore Weber: Oberon |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180709 | Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of performances by the Suisse Romande Orchestra Tom McKinney introduces a week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande orchestra including performances of the Ravel Piano Concertos and tone poems by Richard Strauss. The orchestra marks its centenary this year. c14.02 Johann Strauss II: Waltz - The Blue Danube c14.14 Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnol Op.21 c14.54 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra c15.35 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand c16.03 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180710 | Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Dvorak and Strauss. c14.02 Antonin Dvorak: Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra c14.45 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) c15.33 Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H c15.49 Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra c.16.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini c16.38 Maurice Ravel: Bolero L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180711 | Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recording by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Rossini and Schubert c14.02 Gioachino Rossini: Overture: La scala di sete (The Silken Ladder) c14.09 Gioachino Rossini (arttributed): Bassoon Concerto c 14.36 Franz Schubert: Symphony No 6 in C L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. |
| Prom 1 Repeat: First Night Of The Proms | 20180716 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra and massed choral forces conducted by Sakari Oramo. Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, National Youth Choir of Great Britain and BBC Proms Youth Ensemble conducted by Sakari Oramo in music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Anna Meredith. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region c.3.10 pm c.3.40 pm National Youth Choir of Great Britain An all-British season launch, featuring two major figures who composed responses to the First World War. Holst's much-loved The Planets (premiered in 1918) and Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region contrast with a new work by Anna Meredith, featuring the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble. Five Telegrams draws on communications sent by young soldiers in 1918, taken from a British Field Service Postcard. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC Proms repeat: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces conducted by Sakari Oramo. Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, National Youth Choir of Great Britain and BBC Proms Youth Ensemble conducted by Sakari Oramo in music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Anna Meredith. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region c.3.10 pm c.3.40 pm National Youth Choir of Great Britain An all-British season launch, featuring two major figures who composed responses to the First World War. Holst's much-loved The Planets (premiered in 1918) and Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region contrast with a new work by Anna Meredith, featuring the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble. Five Telegrams draws on communications sent by young soldiers in 1918, taken from a British Field Service Postcard. First broadcast on Friday 13 July. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 11 Repeat: Mahler Symphony Of A Thousand | 20180724 | BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard in Mahler's dramatic Eighth Symphony Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC NOW with Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård and a star-studded cast, plus no fewer than five choirs, perform Mahler's mighty Eighth Symphony. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand' Tamara Wilson (soprano) 'It is the best thing I have ever done,' said Mahler of his Eighth Symphony - for which tonight the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Søndergård, in his final season as Principal Conductor, join forces with no fewer than five choirs. One of the grandest symphonic statements of the repertoire, concluding with a dramatic setting of the mystical closing scene from Goethe's Faust, its mammoth scale matches the impressive space of the Royal Albert Hall. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 15 repeat: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto | 20180730 | BBC Philharmonic in music by Tansy Davies, Beethoven and Brahms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 18 Repeat: Currentzis Conducts Beethoven | 20180801 | BBC Proms repeat: Teodor Currentzis conducts MusicAeterna in Beethoven Symphonies 2 and 5. Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the thrilling Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis conduct his ensemble MusicAeterna in the 2nd and 5th Symphonies. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major 2.30pm 2.55pm One of the boldest, most exhilarating new voices in classical music, Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, and his period-instrument ensemble MusicAeterna are together ripping up the classical rulebook with thrilling, award-winning results. In the hands of MusicAeterna a classic programme of Beethoven symphonies - the vivacious, 'smiling' Second and the emotionally charged Fifth - becomes something altogether more punk and provocative. First broadcast on Saturday 28 July. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 2 Repeat: Ravel | 20180718 | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu perform Ravel. Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington Another chance to hear the second half of Saturday's Prom with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu, in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe. From the Royal Albert Hall, London Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe BBC Symphony Chorus You can hear the first half of this repeat of Prom 2 in tomorrow's Afternoon Concert (Thursday 19th July): Faure: Pavane Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Fauré's serene, gently pulsing Pavane, elegantly recalling the French court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 - the composer's final piano concerto, and a work of unusually introspective lyricism. |
| Prom 21 repeat: An Alpine Symphony | 20180803 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov with the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov, with the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet, in a performance of GF Haas's Concerto Grosso No 1, alongside Strauss's Alpine Symphony. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: Serenade No 8 (Notturno) for Four Orchestras 1455 Interval: Proms Plus Abbie Garrington and Dan Richards discuss the appeal of the mountains and how wild landscapes have inspired creativity. Presented by New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. 1515 Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet A concert of sonic scope and spectacle from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov climaxes in Strauss's dramatic An Alpine Symphony, which paints a vivid picture of a day's hiking in the Bavarian mountains. The Alps also make their way into Georg Friedrich Haas's Concerto Grosso in the form of four alphorns - enormous wooden horns, whose other-worldly overtones also inspired Rossini and Berlioz. The concert opens with Mozart's Notturno, an unfinished Salzburg carnival serenade, whose four separate instrumental groups will be dispersed around the Royal Albert Hall for maximum acoustic drama. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 22 repeat: A London Symphony | 20180806 | BBC SSO and Andrew Manze in perform 'London' symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the BBC SSO & Andew Manze at the BBC Proms in 2 'London' symphonies: by Haydn and Vaughan Williams. From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Haydn: Symphony No 104 'London' 2.30pm: Interval 2.50pm Andrew Manze (conductor) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open with Haydn's lively, assertive final symphony - composed and first performed in London during the composer's second triumphant residency. First performed in March 1914, Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony evokes the chimes of Westminster, a chilly November in Bloomsbury and the bright lights of the Strand in a city that would soon be scarred by war. |
| Prom 24 repeat: A Hero's Life | 20180807 | BBC NOW conducted by Otto Tausk in Strauss, Dvorak and Ethel Smyth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Otto Tausk at the BBC Proms with the cellist Daniel Müllerâ€Schott in Dvořák's Cello Concerto. Plus performances of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and the Prelude to Act 2 of Dame Ethel Smyth's opera, The Wreckers. Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Smyth: The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2) c. 2.50pm INTERVAL c. 3.15pm Daniel Müllerâ€Schott (cello) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Triumphant horns and a flirtatious, vivacious solo violin set the tone for Strauss's vivid autobiographical tone-poem Ein Heldenleben - 'A Hero's Life', outwardly inspired by 'an ideal of great and manly heroism'. The orchestra is also at the forefront in Dvořák's Cello Concerto, sounding as an equal partner to the soloist - German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, who returns to the Proms under conductor Otto Tausk - in an intensely personal work that marries a pervasive sense of longing with real passion. And in the centenary year of British women gaining the right to vote, Ethel Smyth's evocative Act 2 Prelude from The Wreckers celebrates a key British composer who, as a suffragette, spent two months in Holloway Prison. |
| Prom 25 repeat: Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Joby Talbot | 20180809 | BBCSO and Alexander Vedernikov in Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Talbot at the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov at the BBC Proms. Glinka, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Joby Talbot's Guitar Concerto with Miloš Karadaglić. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Glinka: Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No.2) 2.35pm Interval 3pm Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić is the soloist in a new concerto written especially for him by Joby Talbot. Taking inspiration from Karadaglić's Montenegrin heritage, Talbot's typically rhythmic piece incorporates Balkan dances into its propulsive flow. Dance also runs through both Glinka's heat-soaked Summer Night in Madrid, accompanied by pulsing castanets, and the expansive waltzes of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, whose complete Act 1 is here performed for the first time at the Proms. |
| Prom 26 repeat: Late Night Serpent and Fire | 20180808 | Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico in music for Dido and Cleopatra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear soprano Anna Prohaska and leading early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico at the BBC Proms in a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, excerpts Anna Prohaska, soprano Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins Italy's leading early music ensemble for a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido, who proved endlessly fascinating to Baroque composers. Operatic arias are framed by some of the period's most vital instrumental works. |
| Prom 28 repeat: National Youth Orchestra performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy | 20180810 | The National Youth Orchestra under George Benjamin performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the BBC Proms with conductor George Benjamin and pianist Tamara Stefanovich Presented by Tom Redmond at the Royal Albert Hall, London Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on the Bare Mountain c.2.50pm c.3.10pm Tamara Stefanovich (piano) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return to conjure a series of vivid worlds, both real and imagined. The sea roars and shimmers in Debussy's La mer, Mussorgsky paints eerie visions of a Witches' Sabbath, while Ligeti's Lontano summons the 'dream worlds of childhood'. Ravel's brooding Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by a pianist who lost an arm in the First World War. |
| Prom 3 Repeat: Bbc Young Musician 40th Anniversary | 20180717 | Past winners and finalists celebrate 40 years of BBC Young Musician. Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year's winner, Lauren Zhang. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London Ben Foster: Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill looks back over the history of the BBC Young Musician with the help of some of its winners. Saint-Saëns, arr Farrington: Carnival of the Animals (excerpts) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Gourlay BBC Young Musician has launched the careers of scores of artists since it began in 1978. We mark the competition's 40th anniversary with the help of an array of previous winners and finalists, joining this year's finalists; and we take a look at the competition's rich history. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC Proms repeat: past winners and finalists celebrate 40 years of BBC Young Musician. Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore BBC Proms repeat: BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year's winner, Lauren Zhang. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London Ben Foster: Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill looks back over the history of the BBC Young Musician with the help of some of its winners. Saint-Saëns, arr Farrington: Carnival of the Animals (excerpts) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Gourlay BBC Young Musician has launched the careers of scores of artists since it began in 1978. We mark the competition's 40th anniversary with the help of an array of previous winners and finalists, joining this year's finalists; and we take a look at the competition's rich history. First broadcast Sunday 15 July. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 31 Repeat: Bernstein, Gershwin And Ives | 20180815 | Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä play music by Bernstein and Ives at the BBC Proms. They're joined by pianist Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's piano concerto. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bernstein: Candide - overture Inon Barnatan, piano A great American orchestra marks Leonard Bernstein's 100th-anniversary year with a concert of 20th century American classics that represent Bernstein in his multiple guises as composer, conductor and pianist. The breathless exuberance of Bernstein's Candide overture is extended by Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's Concerto in F major, which filters the composer's popular jazz idiom through classical structures and Lisztian virtuosity. Premiered by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1951, Ives's attractive Second Symphony melds European techniques with an all-American sound-world. |
| Prom 31 repeat: Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives | 20180815 | Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä play music by Bernstein and Ives at the BBC Proms. They're joined by pianist Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's piano concerto. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bernstein: Candide - overture Inon Barnatan, piano A great American orchestra marks Leonard Bernstein's 100th-anniversary year with a concert of 20th century American classics that represent Bernstein in his multiple guises as composer, conductor and pianist. The breathless exuberance of Bernstein's Candide overture is extended by Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's Concerto in F major, which filters the composer's popular jazz idiom through classical structures and Lisztian virtuosity. Premiered by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1951, Ives's attractive Second Symphony melds European techniques with an all-American sound-world. |
| Prom 33 repeat: Brahms's A German Requiem | 20180813 | BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Richard Farnes in Brahms's A German Requiem Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Richard Farnes conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising at the BBC Proms. The BBC Symphony Chorus and soloists join for Brahms's German Requiem. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall. Thea Musgrave: Phoenix Rising c.2.25 c.2.45 Golda Schultz (soprano) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms's tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn't be further from Verdi's and Berlioz's settings of the standard Latin Mass text. It's the first of three Requiems this season marking 100 years since the end of the First World War. Richard Farnes makes his Proms debut directing the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter. Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising (marking the composer's 90th birthday this year) also traces a journey from darkness to light -enacting the conflict both spatially and musically- in some of the composer's most dramatic writing. |
| Prom 34 repeat: BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena perform Britten and Copland | 20180814 | BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena in Britten and Copland from the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena with soprano Sally Matthews in music by Britten, Walton, Barber and Copland. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall . Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' c. 2.50 c. 3.10 Sally Matthews (soprano) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. In Bernstein's centenary year, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate with a transatlantic Prom, uniting music by British and American composers connected not just by generation but in many cases personal friendship. Commissioned and premiered by Bernstein, Copland's Connotations is a portrait of "the tensions aspirations and drama inherent in the world today". Its knotty confrontations find contrast in the sensuous beauty of Britten's orchestral song-cycle Les illuminations, while the sea provides inspiration both for Walton's bustling, bonhomous Portsmouth Point overture and Britten's boldly dramatic Four Sea Interludes from his opera 'Peter Grimes'. Sally Matthews joins the orchestra for two extracts from Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra which complete the programme. |
| Prom 34 Repeat: Bbc Philharmonic And Juanjo Mena Perform Britten And Copland | 20180814 | BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena in Britten and Copland from the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena with soprano Sally Matthews in music by Britten, Walton, Barber and Copland. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall. Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' c. 2.50 c. 3.10 Sally Matthews (soprano) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. In Bernstein's centenary year, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate with a transatlantic Prom, uniting music by British and American composers connected not just by generation but in many cases personal friendship. Commissioned and premiered by Bernstein, Copland's Connotations is a portrait of "the tensions aspirations and drama inherent in the world today". Its knotty confrontations find contrast in the sensuous beauty of Britten's orchestral song-cycle Les illuminations, while the sea provides inspiration both for Walton's bustling, bonhomous Portsmouth Point overture and Britten's boldly dramatic Four Sea Interludes from his opera 'Peter Grimes'. Sally Matthews joins the orchestra for two extracts from Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra which complete the programme. |
| Prom 36 repeat: Mahler, Wagner and Webern | 20180816 | Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen in Webern, Mahler and Wagner, Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig perform music by Webern, Mahler and Wagner at the BBC Proms Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 c. 2.30 c. 2.50 Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic. Barely six minutes long, Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour. By contrast, Wagner's Die Walküre, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love. At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony - music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer's death. |
| Prom 4 Repeat: Shostakovich's 'leningrad' Symphony | 20180719 | The BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena and Mark Simpson in Shostakovich and Lindberg. Afternoon Concert with Tom McKinney Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena in Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. They are joined by Mark Simpson for Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto c.2.30pm c.2.50pm Mark Simpson (clarinet) In his final season as its Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic in a concert contrasting darkness and light. Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto is a modern classic, a glorious collision of tradition and innovation that is at once emotionally direct and ferociously virtuosic; a graduate of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme and BBC Young Musician winner, Mark Simpson is the soloist. Darkness streaks across the second half with Shostakovich's heart-wrenching tribute to the Soviet victims of the Second World War - the powerful 'Leningrad' Symphony. Followed by another chance to hear music from Prom 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu: Faure: Pavane Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Fauré's serene, gently pulsing Pavane, elegantly recalling the French court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 - the composer's final piano concerto, and a work of unusually introspective lyricism. |
| Prom 40 Repeat: Joshua Bell And The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields. | 20180817 | Joshua Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields play Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture, Beethoven's graceful Fourth Symphony and Frank Bridge's elegiac Lament. Bell himself is the soloist in Saint-Saëns's Third Violin Concerto. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - overture 2.45pm: Interval 3.05pm: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. 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-Saëns'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. |
| Prom 40 repeat: Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. | 20180817 | Joshua Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields play Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture, Beethoven's graceful Fourth Symphony and Frank Bridge's elegiac Lament. Bell himself is the soloist in Saint-Saëns's Third Violin Concerto. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - overture 2.45pm: Interval 3.05pm: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. 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-Saëns'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. |
| Prom 41 repeat: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams | 20180822 | BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Edward Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner perform music by Vaughan Williams and Lili Boulanger. Jean-Guihen Queyras joins them in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Lili Boulanger: Pour les funerailles d'un soldat 2.45pm Alexandre Duhamel (baritone) War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus – part of this season’s musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War. A precursor to Britten’s War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams’s cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger’s choral miniature Pour les funérailles d’un soldat. Elgar’s much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist. |
| Prom 41 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams | 20180822 | BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Edward Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner perform music by Vaughan Williams and Lili Boulanger. Jean-Guihen Queyras joins them in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Lili Boulanger: Pour les funerailles d'un soldat 2.45pm Alexandre Duhamel (baritone) War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus – part of this season’s musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War. A precursor to Britten’s War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams’s cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger’s choral miniature Pour les funérailles d’un soldat. Elgar’s much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist. |
| Prom 42 Repeat: Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi And Khatia Buniatishvili In Sibelius, Part And Grieg | 20180820 | The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Jarvi perform Sibelius, Part and Grieg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington The Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi (conductor) play Symphonies by Sibelius and Arvo Pärt at the BBC Proms and they're joined by Khatia Buniatishvili for Grieg's Piano Concerto. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Arvo Pärt: Symphony No 3 c. 3.35 c. 3.55 Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists A concert with a Nordic flavour from Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (making its Proms debut) pairs music by Grieg and Sibelius with Estonia's own national composer, Arvo Pärt. Celebrated Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili - a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist - performs one of the great Romantic piano concertos. Beloved for its generous melodies and dramatic gestures, Grieg's concerto is matched for sonic drama by Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony. Arvo Pärt's eclectic Third Symphony, with its echoes of Renaissance polyphony and Orthodox chant, opens the concert. |
| Prom 42 repeat: Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi and Khatia Buniatishvili in Sibelius, Part and Grieg | 20180820 | The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Jarvi perform Sibelius, Part and Grieg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington The Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi (conductor) play Symphonies by Sibelius and Arvo Pärt at the BBC Proms and they're joined by Khatia Buniatishvili for Grieg's Piano Concerto. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Arvo Pärt: Symphony No 3 c. 3.35 c. 3.55 Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists A concert with a Nordic flavour from Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (making its Proms debut) pairs music by Grieg and Sibelius with Estonia's own national composer, Arvo Pärt. Celebrated Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili - a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist - performs one of the great Romantic piano concertos. Beloved for its generous melodies and dramatic gestures, Grieg's concerto is matched for sonic drama by Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony. Arvo Pärt's eclectic Third Symphony, with its echoes of Renaissance polyphony and Orthodox chant, opens the concert. |
| Prom 43 repeat: Daniel Barenboim and the West\u2013Eastern Divan Orchestra | 20180821 | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim play Tchaikovsky, Coleman and Scriabin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain. Another chance to hear the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conductor Daniel Barenboim play music by Tchaikovsky, David Robert Coleman and Scriabin at the BBC Proms. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 2.35pm 3pm Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy Elsa Dreisig, soprano Followed by recordings from this week's Proms artists. Daniel Barenboim and his pioneering West–Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms for a concert marrying passion and politics. One of the most richly Romantic works in the repertoire – Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending Violin Concerto, performed here by Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili – is paired with Scriabin’s ecstatic, orgiastic 'The Poem of Ecstasy', an attempt to bridge the divide between spirituality and sexuality in music. At the centre of the concert is David Robert Coleman’s 'Looking for Palestine' for soprano and orchestra, a work commissioned by the ensemble, and one that speaks to its uniquely political identity. |
| Prom 43 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim And The West\u2013eastern Divan Orchestra | 20180821 | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim play Tchaikovsky, Coleman and Scriabin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain. Another chance to hear the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conductor Daniel Barenboim play music by Tchaikovsky, David Robert Coleman and Scriabin at the BBC Proms. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 2.35pm 3pm Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy Elsa Dreisig, soprano Followed by recordings from this week's Proms artists. Daniel Barenboim and his pioneering West–Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms for a concert marrying passion and politics. One of the most richly Romantic works in the repertoire – Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending Violin Concerto, performed here by Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili – is paired with Scriabin’s ecstatic, orgiastic 'The Poem of Ecstasy', an attempt to bridge the divide between spirituality and sexuality in music. At the centre of the concert is David Robert Coleman’s 'Looking for Palestine' for soprano and orchestra, a work commissioned by the ensemble, and one that speaks to its uniquely political identity. |
| Prom 44 repeat: CBSO and Ludovic Morlot perform Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger | 20180823 | Ludovic Morlot conducts the CBSO at the Royal Albert Hall in Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain. Another chance to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus and conductor Ludovic Morlot perform music by Lili Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel at the BBC Proms. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 2.40pm 3pm Justina Gringytė, mezzo-soprano Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The CBSO and Ludovic Morlot mark two major centenaries in this all-French programme. In the centenary of his death, Debussy is celebrated in the languorous beauty of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Nocturnes with their shifting, shimmering play of musical light. Lili Boulanger, whose death in 1918 at the age of just 24 cut short a career of extraordinary promise, is represented by her powerful setting of Psalm 130 – a musical howl of grief composed at the height of the First World War. Ravel’s Boléro closes the evening with its hypnotic Spanish dance rhythm and swirling orchestral colours. |
| Prom 45 Repeat: Jonathan Nott And The Orchestre De La Suisse Romande | 20180829 | Jonathan Nott conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott at the BBC Proms. Presented by Katie Derham at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Debussy: Jeux Renaud Capuçon, violin Geneva’s renowned Orchestre de la Suisse Romande celebrates its 100th anniversary by making its Proms debut under its English Music Director Jonathan Nott. The orchestra continues this season’s strand of French music with works by Debussy and Ravel – the mercurial dance-fantasy Jeux, Debussy’s last orchestral work, and a new orchestration of Ravel’s jazz-infused Second Violin Sonata with soloist Renaud Capuçon – as well as a Russian piece synonymous with Paris: Stravinsky’s colourful folk-ballet Petrushka, heard here in its original version. |
| Prom 45 repeat: Jonathan Nott and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | 20180829 | Jonathan Nott conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott at the BBC Proms. Presented by Katie Derham at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Debussy: Jeux Renaud Capuçon, violin Geneva’s renowned Orchestre de la Suisse Romande celebrates its 100th anniversary by making its Proms debut under its English Music Director Jonathan Nott. The orchestra continues this season’s strand of French music with works by Debussy and Ravel – the mercurial dance-fantasy Jeux, Debussy’s last orchestral work, and a new orchestration of Ravel’s jazz-infused Second Violin Sonata with soloist Renaud Capuçon – as well as a Russian piece synonymous with Paris: Stravinsky’s colourful folk-ballet Petrushka, heard here in its original version. |
| Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev And Venables | 20180827 | Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform works by Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar and Prokofiev at the Royal Albert Hall. They're joined by Pekka Kuusisto in the premiere of a quirky new violin concerto by Philip Venables. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Maverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto made a memorable Proms debut in 2016. Now he returns to premiere a new violin concerto written especially for him by award-winning young British composer Philip Venables. The piece grows out of a recording the composer found of himself as a teenager playing one of Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches to his teacher’s teacher, Rudolf Botta, a Hungarian refugee – and the journey that ensued. The concerto is framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism – Elgar’s lovely Introduction and Allegro for strings and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, a piece that rejoices in ‘the strength and beauty of the human spirit’. |
| Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables | 20180827 | Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform works by Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar and Prokofiev at the Royal Albert Hall. They're joined by Pekka Kuusisto in the premiere of a quirky new violin concerto by Philip Venables. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Maverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto made a memorable Proms debut in 2016. Now he returns to premiere a new violin concerto written especially for him by award-winning young British composer Philip Venables. The piece grows out of a recording the composer found of himself as a teenager playing one of Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches to his teacher’s teacher, Rudolf Botta, a Hungarian refugee – and the journey that ensued. The concerto is framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism – Elgar’s lovely Introduction and Allegro for strings and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, a piece that rejoices in ‘the strength and beauty of the human spirit’. |
| Prom 48 repeat: London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle play Ravel | 20180828 | The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle perform Ravel at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear Sir Simon Rattle conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Ravel at the BBC Proms, featuring Magdalena Kožená in Shéhérazade and L'enfant et les sortilèges. Presented by Tom Service at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ravel: Mother Goose (ballet) 2.50pm 3.10pm Followed by recordings from this week's Proms artists Sir Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra and an all-star cast, including Magdalena Kožena and Patricia Bardon, present Ravel’s magical opera L’enfant et les sortilèges. Ravel’s fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and sensuous song-cycle Shéhérazade complete the programme. |
| Prom 49 repeat: European Union Youth Orchestra | 20180830 | Gianandrea Noseda and the European Union Youth Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Zubel Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the European Union Youth Orchestra and conductor Gianandrea Noseda at the BBC Proms. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall Agata Zubel: Fireworks (UK premiere) 2.45pm 3.05pm Seong-Jin Cho (piano) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The UK premiere of Agata Zubel’s Fireworks is a celebration of freedom and of the present moment, written to mark the 100th anniversary of Polish independence. The Polish theme continues in Chopin’s lyrical and much-loved Second Piano Concerto, with the winner of the 2015 International Chopin Competition, Seong-Jin Cho, making his Proms debut. In the second half, Gianandrea Noseda and the European Union Youth Orchestra turn up the intensity with one of the great Romantic symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s stirring Fifth. |
| Prom 50 repeat: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Mahler's Symphony No 5 | 20180831 | BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and Annelien Van Wauwe perform Mozart and Mahler Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard at the BBC Proms, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major 2.30pm 2.50pm BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Recreating a Proms concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard pair two of the best-loved and most beautiful works in the repertoire. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with its sublime slow movement, is the composer at his sunniest and most mellow, despite the fact that he was to die two months after its completion. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, by contrast, is the urgent work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with impossible tenderness in its famous Adagietto. |
| Prom 52 repeat: Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic in Sibelius and Wagner | 20180903 | Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Wagner and a Wallin world premiere Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic in music by Sibelius and Wagner at the BBC Proms, with Alina Ibragimova joining them for the world premiere of Rolf Wallin's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London Wagner: Flying Dutchman – overture 2.35pm 2.55pm Alina Ibragimova, violin Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. A concert with a Nordic flavour from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra climaxes in Sibelius’s Second Symphony, whose folk-like melodies are a musical celebration of Finnish life and identity. |
| Prom 52 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts The Bergen Philharmonic In Sibelius And Wagner | 20180903 | Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Wagner and a Wallin world premiere Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic in music by Sibelius and Wagner at the BBC Proms, with Alina Ibragimova joining them for the world premiere of Rolf Wallin's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London Wagner: Flying Dutchman – overture 2.35pm 2.55pm Alina Ibragimova, violin Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. A concert with a Nordic flavour from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra climaxes in Sibelius’s Second Symphony, whose folk-like melodies are a musical celebration of Finnish life and identity. |
| Prom 54 repeat: Iv\u00e1n Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform Enescu, Bartok and Mahler | 20180904 | Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler and Bartok. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the BBC Proms. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Albert Hall, London Enescu: Suite No. 1 – Prélude à l’unisson 2.40pm 3pm Anna Lucia Richter, soprano Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The intoxicating energy of their performances makes any appearance by Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra a highlight of the season. In the first of their two Proms together, they pair Mahler’s best-loved symphony – the vivacious Fourth, with its jingling sleighbells and child’s-eye vision of heaven – with two works exploring the unusual relationship between strings and percussion: Bartók’s dynamic Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Enescu’s Prélude à l’unisson, with its slow-build tension. |
| Prom 55 repeat: Iv\u00e1n Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra perform Brahms, Liszt and Sarasate | 20180906 | Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Hungarian dances and folk tunes. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the BBC Proms with guest violin and cimbalom players in a riot of Hungarian dances and folk tunes. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Albert Hall, London. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in C sharp minor 2.45pm 3.05pm József Lendvay Sr and József Lendvay Jr (violins), Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Hungarian folk tunes run through the veins of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, while Gypsy rhythms set their pulses dancing. |
| Prom 56 repeat: Mozart and Bruckner | 20180907 | BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo play Mozart and Bruckner at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo play Bruckner's Symphony No 5 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with soloist Benjamin Grosvenor at the BBC Proms Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 2.30pm 2.50pm BBC Symphony Orchestra Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Former BBC Young Musician winner Benjamin Grosvenor may only be 26 but this exceptional pianist is an artist of startling emotional and technical maturity. Here he joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 (sometimes known by the nickname ‘Elvira Madigan’), with its trickling slow movement and good-humoured buffo levity. Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, with its astonishing fugal finale, offers a more serious counterpoint in the second half. |
| Prom 6 Repeat: An American In Paris And Turangalila | 20180720 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Afternoon Concert with Tom McKinney Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Gershwin's An American in Paris and Messiaen's epic Turangalîla Symphony. Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London Gershwin: An American in Paris c. 2.15pm Interval: Proms Plus c. 2.35pm Angela Hewitt (piano) Gershwin's An American in Paris - a giddy, gloriously tuneful musical evocation of 1920s Paris - takes a stroll through the bustling City of Light, swept along by the jazz rhythms that were its throbbing pulse. The rhythmic impulse continues through Messiaen's hypnotic orchestral love song, the Turangalîla Symphony. Premiered by Leonard Bernstein in 1949, this Tristan and Isolde-inspired work is a celebration of sensual pleasure and boundless ecstasy. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 64 repeat: Verdi Requiem | 20180905 | Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the London Philharmonic in Verdi's Requiem. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear Verdi's Requiem at the BBC Proms. Presented by Georgia Mann at the Royal Albert Hall, London Verdi: Requiem Lise Davidsen, soprano Rising conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada continues this season’s sequence of Requiems with Verdi’s mighty concert-hall setting – an ‘opera in church vestments’. Embracing the full gamut of human emotion, from the most tender and fragile of hopes to the visceral terror of the Day of Judgement, it’s a work that transforms private grief into an astonishing public statement. An international team of soloists includes the exciting young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen and renowned Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. |
| Prom 9 Repeat: World Orchestra For Peace | 20180723 | The World Orchestra for Peace and Donald Runnicles in Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the World Orchestra for Peace and conductor Donald Runnicles perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Eriks Esenvalds' Shadow. Eriks Esenvalds: Shadow (BBC commission, world premiere) c2.50pm Interval: Proms Plus c3.10pm Erin Wall (soprano) In the centenary year of the end of the First World War, the World Orchestra for Peace - founded by Georg Solti as an expression of international musical harmony - returns to the Proms with one of classical music's most potent statements of brotherhood and fellowship, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Composed in the shadow of the Second World War, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem adds its own emotive warning against war. The concert opens with a new, First World War-themed work by Latvian composer Ä’riks EÅ¡envalds, commissioned for the talented young singers of the BBC Proms Youth Choir. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Prom 9 repeat: World Orchestra for Peace | 20180723 | The World Orchestra for Peace and Donald Runnicles in Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the World Orchestra for Peace and conductor Donald Runnicles perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Eriks Esenvalds' Shadow. Eriks Esenvalds: Shadow (BBC commission, world premiere) c2.50pm Interval: Proms Plus c3.10pm Erin Wall (soprano) In the centenary year of the end of the First World War, the World Orchestra for Peace - founded by Georg Solti as an expression of international musical harmony - returns to the Proms with one of classical music's most potent statements of brotherhood and fellowship, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Composed in the shadow of the Second World War, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem adds its own emotive warning against war. The concert opens with a new, First World War-themed work by Latvian composer Ä’riks EÅ¡envalds, commissioned for the talented young singers of the BBC Proms Youth Choir. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. |
| Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Bach, Beethoven | 20180223 | Penny Gore concludes a week of concert recordings from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Today the focus is on the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with two full concerts. The first features works by Dvorak, Walton and Mendelssohn; in the second, the innovative pianist Jeremy Denk joins the orchestra to play Bach and Beethoven, and conduct music by Shostakovich. In between the two concerts, there's chamber music from members of the orchestra, performing a clarinet trio by American composer Paul Schoenfield. 2pm 3.10pm 3.40pm The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra showcases the talented players among its ranks with Dvorak's Romance in F minor, featuring solo violin, and contemporary American Composer Paul Schoenfield's virtuosic Trio for clarinet, violin and piano. In the second of today's complete concerts, one of the Orchestra's Artistic Partners, the pianist Jeremy Denk, presents one of his typically eclectic programmes, including solo keyboard music by Johann Sebastian Bach, an orchestral arrangement of one of Shostakovich's String Quartets, and Beethoven's ever-popular Fourth Piano Concerto. |
| Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra - Mozart, Dvorak, Bach, Stephen Paulus | 20180220 | Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Today's programme features music spanning the centuries, from Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto to the world premiere of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto. Also along the way, another concerto: Ginastera's zestful Harp Concerto, and music by the late American composer Stephen Paulus. 2pm 3.05pm 4.20pm The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today, there's a chance to hear two concerts from their 2016/17 seasons. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra begin with a programme that pairs Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Mozart, before offering a rare chance to hear the orchestration of Dvorak's 'American' String Quartet. After that, a short ride down the Interstate 94 takes us to Minneapolis, and a concert from the Minnesota Orchestra with Music Director Osmo Vänskä. The Orchestra's principal harp, Kathy Kienzle, is in the spotlight for Ginastera's Harp Concerto, and the programme ends with a work by the late American composer and frequent Minnesota Orchestra collaborator Stephen Paulus. To finish today, the world premiere performance of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto, given a year ago by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Jonathan Biss. Subtitled 'City Stanzas', it was commissioned by today's soloist as part of a project to create new piano concertos inspired by the five concertos of Beethoven. Sally Beamish took Beethoven's First Piano Concerto as a starting point and re-imagined it in a modern urban environment. |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Beethoven's Fidelio | 20180111 | Beethoven's Fidelio, starring Ricarda Merbeth and Stuart Skelton with the BBC Philharmonic. Tom Redmond presents today's Opera Matinee - a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio performed by this week's orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, on tour in San Sebastian, Spain. Stuart Skelton sings the imprisoned Florestan, and Ricarda Merbeth the brave Leonora who comes to his rescue. Then more from the BBC Philharmonic on home ground, with songs by Elgar, a tone poem by Honegger and Copland's Third Symphony. 2pm c.3.50pm Honegger: Pacific 231 c.4.15pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Bellini's Il Pirata | 20180222 | Penny Gore introduces a recording of Bellini's Il Pirata from the final Bel Canto at Caramoor season, held last summer in New York State, USA. Il Pirata was Bellini's breakthrough opera in Milan. It's a highly romantic tale of love and subterfuge set in 13th century Sicily, with a chorus of pirates or ladies-in-waiting never far away. Multiple award winning American soprano Angela Meade is the heroine Imogene, and Argentine bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini is her beloved pirate chief Gualtiero. Imogene....Angela Meade (soprano) Chorus of Caramoor's Bel Canto Young Artists Under the expert curation of Will Crutchfield, Bel Canto at Caramoor ran for twenty years at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York State, USA. As part of its final season last summer, the festival staged this performance of Il Pirata in the idyllic setting of Caramoor's Venetian Theatre, starring the festival's artist-in-residence, soprano Angela Meade. Bellini's Il pirata from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Berg's Wozzeck | 20180329 | Alban Berg's Wozzeck from Dutch National Opera, conducted by Marc Albrecht. Alban Berg's Wozzeck from Dutch National Opera, with Christopher Maltman in the title role, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Marie and Sir Willard White as the Doctor. Georgia Mann introduces this 2017 production of Berg's opera examining the complexities of the human soul. The hapless soldier Wozzeck has an illegitimate child with Marie. When he discovers her affair with the handsome Drum Major, it's too much for him to bear. He gradually begins to lose his grip on sanity and stabs her before drowning himself. Wozzeck.... Christopher Maltman (baritone) Dutch National Chorus And at 3.40pm Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Overture |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Cavalli's Erismena | 20171228 | Cavalli's Erismena in a performance from the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Jonathan Swain presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee: A rare chance to hear Cavalli's Erismena in a performance from the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Very popular in its time, Cavalli's comic opera of 1655 even made it to England, and was unusual in that it dealt with humans rather than gods or ancient heroes. Then back to the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups, and a stand out performance of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy played by Jack Liebeck and the Ulster Orchestra. 2pm c.4.30pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur | 20180426 | Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from Vienna State Opera, with Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala. Georgia Mann presents this week's Opera Matinee; a performance of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from Vienna State Opera. The plot concerns a theatre group at the Comedie-Francaise in Paris. The leading actress, Adriana Lecouvreur is in love with Maurizio, the Count of Saxony. The Count loves her too, and wants to be with her instead of his former love, the Princess de Bouillon. When the Princess discovers her rival to be Adriana, she poisons her. Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala star. 2pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Donizetti's La Favorite | 20180315 | Kate Molleson presents this week's Opera Matinee: Donizetti's La Favorite (sung in French) Kate Molleson presents this week's Opera Matinee, a recording from Teatro Real, Madrid, of Donizetti's opera La Favorite, sung in French. Alphonse XI, King of Castille....Simone Piazzola (baritone) Teatro Real Chorus |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia | 20171123 | Georgia Mann presents a Salzburg Festival performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Georgia Mann presents a concert performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia from this year's Salzburg Festival. Set in 16th-century Venice and Ferrara, the opera tells the tale of the young nobleman Don Gennaro's encounter with one of the most infamous and deadly women of the Italian Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia. Premiered at La Scala, Milan on 26th December 1833, and based on a play by Victor Hugo, Donizetti's opera captures the intrigue, passion and jealousy of an aristocratic dynasty tested by the arrival of a young and honest man brought up as the son of a lowly fisherman. Krassimira Stoyanova sings the title role, with Juan Diego Florez as Gennaro, and Ildar Abdrazakov as her husband, Don Alfonso D'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Then it's back to this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, for music by Dvorak. 2pm 16.20 |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Granados's Goyescas | 20180215 | Kate Molleson presents a performance of Granados's one-act opera Goyescas, performed by the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. Plus a new recording of Florent Schmitt's Antony and Cleopatra Suite No 2. 2pm 3.00pm c.3.25pm 3.55pm c.4.15pm Granados's one-act opera Goyescas, performed by the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Handel's Rinaldo | 20171005 | Penny Gore presents a recording of Handel's Rinaldo conducted by Christopher Hogwood. Penny Gore presents a recording of Handel's Rinaldo conducted by Christopher Hogwood. The first opera written by Handel for the London stage, the work borrows and adapts works he composed during his recent years spent in Italy. Set in Jerusalem at the time of the First Crusade, the plot concerns the kidnapping of Rinaldo's lover, Almirena, by the sorceress, Armida, Queen of Damascus. A great success at its premiere in 1711, the opera features a succession of beautiful arias such as Almirena's "Lascia ch'io pianga". David Daniels takes the title role, with an acclaimed cast including Cecilia Bartoli, Gerald Finley, and Bernarda Fink. Goffredo....Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Hansel And Gretel | 20180322 | Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel from the Royal Opera House Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's setting of Hansel and Gretel: the classic story from the Brothers Grimm, where two children get lost in a forest after dark and are charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. The children are ensnared but manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending they are returned home and reunited with their parents. In a performance from the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's fairytale opera with a cast that includes mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager as Hansel and soprano Diana Damrau as Gretel. Hansel....Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) And at 3.45pm Penny Gore continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Orchestra recordings, with works by Piers Hellawell and Prokofiev. Piers Hellawell - Wild Flow |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Jacopo Foroni's Margherita | 20171130 | Tom McKinney presents Jacopo Foroni's Margherita, recorded at Wexford Festival Opera. Tom McKinney presents Jacopo Foroni's Margherita, recorded at Wexford Festival Opera. Wexford uncovers another rarity - Foroni was a 19th-century Italian composer who spent most of his working life in Sweden, and he tragically died of cholera aged 33. Margherita is a comedy set in the mountains, where Margherita, a pretty, rich orphan girl, is in love with the soldier Ernesto but is pestered with proposals of marriage by the well-connected Roberto. Foroni: Margherita Conte Rodolfo....Yuriy Yurchuk (baritone) Plus more from the Prague Spring Festival as part of this week celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Ethel Smyth - Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Mozart's Don Giovanni | 20171026 | Mozart's Don Giovanni in a performance from Aix-en-Provence. Jonathan Swain presents Afternoon Concert's Thursday Opera Matinee - a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Archbishop's Theatre, Aix-en-Provence. Philippe Sly sings the sings the charismatic seducer who meets his match in the ghost of the man he kills, and Eleonora Buratto, Isabel Leonard and Julie Fuchs sing the women who get drawn helplessly into his net. 2pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Puccini's 'manon Lescaut' | 20171012 | Antonio Pappano conducts Manon Lescaut, starring Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann. Tom Redmond presents a performance of Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut' conducted by Antonio Pappano with soprano Kristine Opolais, tenor Jonas Kaufmann and baritone Christopher Maltman. Plus the BBC Philharmonic performs Walton's Cello Concerto with soloist Leonard Elschenbroich, and music by Prokofiev and Elgar. 2pm c. 4pm Prokofiev: Autumn Elgar: Grania and Diarmid: Incidental Music and Funeral March |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Snow Maiden | 20180517 | Penny Gore presents our Thursday Opera Matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden. Penny Gore presents this week's Opera Matinee; a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, in a production from Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. The Snow Maiden has been raised in perpetual winter by her father, Frost and mother, Spring. Envious of the mortals in the village nearby, she yearns to experience their longings, passions and human emotions, and begs her parents to let her join them. They agree to let her be adopted by Bobyl-Bakula and his wife, with tragic consequences. A gorgeous and lyrical evocation of the natural world, Rimsky Korsakov's delightfully colourful, folk-inspired opera is based on a well-loved Russian fairy tale. Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Rossini's Moses In Egypt | 20180125 | Rossini's Moses in Egypt, performed at the Bregenz Festival in the summer of 2017. Penny Gore presents this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Rossini's Moses in Egypt, performed at the Bregenz Festival last summer. Telling the story of Moses and the Israelites' escape from Egypt, it's also a love story between the Pharaoh's son Amenofi and the Israelite Elcia. Followed by more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with music by Haydn. 2pm c.4.30pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Strauss's Salome | 20171102 | Tom Mckinney presents Strauss' Salome from the Royal Opera House. Tom McKinney introduces the 2010 production of Richard Strauss's Salome from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - part of Radio 3's Opera Season, this is one of the seven operas featured in the current exhibition at the V&A, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics. 'Salome is an opera full of characters regarding each other, unable to communicate everyone's desire is unfulfilled, but everyone is looking all the time', says David McVicar's of Richard Strauss's Salome, as his 2008 production is resurrected in all its shocking glory at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Based on a short biblical reference to a girl dancing for King Herod, and the immortal line: 'Bring me the head of John the Baptist', Oscar Wilde's play told a lurid tale of power and corruption, depravity and obsession and Strauss set it to music without holding back in any way. Angela Denoke stars in the title role, Irina Mishura as Herodias and Gerhard Siegel as Herod, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen. Narraboth.. Andrew Staples (tenor) And at 3.45pm Tom McKinney continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Orchestra recordings, including a tone poem by Rachmaninov as part of Afternoon Concert's continuing season. Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor Rachmaninov: Caprice Bohemian Op. 12 |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin | 20171207 | Tom Redmond presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. As as tribute to the great baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky who died last month at the age of 55, another chance to hear him in one of his signature roles, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. When Tatyana (Nicole Car) is introduced to the dashing young Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) from St Petersburg, she believes that he is the hero of her dreams, the man she has imagined through reading her beloved books. But Onegin coldly rejects her and leaves her devastated. Bored at Tatyana's name-day party, Onegin then flirts with her sister Olga (Oksana Volkova), outraging the poet Lensky (Michael Fabiano), Olga's fiancé and Onegin's only friend. Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel and is killed by Onegin, who then travels the world in an attempt to escape his guilt. Onegin eventually returns to Russia to discover that Tatyana has become the elegant wife of Prince Gremin (Ferruccio Furlanetto). Onegin is overcome, and begs her to return his love... First broadcast in 2016. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2pm |
| Thursday - Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Teuzzone | 20180208 | Vivaldi's Teuzzone in a performance from Barcelona directed by Jordi Savall. Georgia Mann presents this week's Opera Matinee - a rare chance to hear Vivaldi's Teuzzone, in a performance from Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu directed by Jordi Savall. The Emperor of China, Troncone dies leaving a bride, Zidiana, and a power vacuum. His son Teuzzone is the rightful heir, but Zidiana has plans not only to seize power, but to marry Teuzzone herself. Jordi Savall and his Concert des Nations set the scene for each half with a traditional Chinese folksong. 2pm |
| Thursday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra Live From Glasgow And The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20171214 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow and BBC Philharmonic live from Salford. Afternoon Concert's live week continues with two live performances, starting with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Glasgow's City Halls, conducted by Ben Gernon, with Simon Wills' tone poem The Island. It's followed by Ernest Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer, in a version for voice and orchestra, with mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge as soloist. Then comes a selection of pieces from Prokofiev's suites from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Then we move to MediaCityUK in Salford as the afternoon continues with our second live concert, this one given by the BBC Philharmonic, under the baton of Clemens Schuldt, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K.449, with soloist Martin Roscoe. The concert ends with Sibelius' Symphony No. 2. 2.00pm Presented by Jamie MacDougall LIVE from City Halls, Glasgow 3.05pm Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) 3.45pm Presented by Tom Redmond LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford. Martin Roscoe (piano) |
| Thursday Opera Matinee - Verdi's Nabucco | 20171019 | Penny Gore presents Verdi's Nabucco, in a 2013 performance from the Royal Opera House. 2pm 2pm c.4.10pm |
| Thursday Opera Matinee: Chabrier's L'etoile | 20171221 | Penny Gore presents Chabrier's sparkling opera recorded last year at the Royal Opera House Penny Gore presents L'Etoile, Chabrier's sparkling opera, in a performance conducted by Mark Elder and recorded last year at the Royal Opera House Chabrier's comic opera L'Étoile is a rarity but is considered to be a masterpiece of the genre It was first performed to great success in 1877 and was performed 48 times in its first run. It's a wonderfully ridiculous plot, with each role perfectly characterised in the music The story begins on King Ouf's birthday (the tenor Christophe Mortagne), which he always celebrates with a public impalement, and this year his victim is the pedlar Lazuli (a role for a mezzo-soprano and sung here by Kate Lindsey), who unwittingly struck the King without knowing who he was. However, when the King's astrologer Siroco (bass-baritone Simon Bailey) tells the King that his star and Lazuli's are so closely bound that they will die on the same day, the King cancels the execution Mark Elder conducts what was the Royal Opera's first ever production of L'Étoile, directed by Mariame Clément King Ouf I....Christophe Mortagne (tenor) Royal Opera House Chorus |
| Thursday- Opera Matinee: Giordano's Siberia | 20180201 | Tom McKinney introduces Giordano's opera Siberia with Sonya Yoncheva as Stephana. In our opera matinée, Tom McKinney introduces Umberto Giordano's rarely heard opera Siberia with the acclaimed soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Stephana, the mistress of a prince, and the tenor Murat Karahan as officer Vassili, her lover, in this tragic tale of romance, treachery and deception, taken from a performance at last year's Montpellier Festival in France. Domingo Hindoyan conducts a stellar cast as well as the Latvian Radio Chorus and the Montpellier Occitanie National Choir and Orchestra. The opera is followed by a a new recording of Sir Arthur Bliss's Introduction and Allegro from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. Then a concert given recently by the BBC Singers at St Paul's Knightsbridge, in London, celebrating the music of Edward Cowie, also including pieces by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Geoffrey Poole. 2pm c.3.40pm c.3.55pm |
| Thursday Opera Matinee: Prokofiev's The Gambler | 20171116 | Verity Sharp presents Prokofiev's The Gambler in a recording from the Vienna State Opera. In today's Opera Matinee, Verity Sharp presents Prokofiev's The Gambler in a recording from the Vienna State Opera as part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Prokofiev's 4-act opera is based on a novel by Dostoevsky, who understood the lure of the gaming tables only too well, being addicted to gambling himself. Set in Roulettenburg, a fictional German spa town, the opera deals with the ups and downs of winning and losing and obsessive greed. Prokofiev wrote his own libretto and completed the score in 1917, in his late 20s. It is written in his most exciting early style with high energy and motoric rhythms. Prokofiev: The Gambler The General.. Dmitry Ulyanov (bass) 2pm Act 1 2.25pm Act 2 3pm Act 3 3.25pm Act 4 4.05pm |
| Thursday: Opera Matinee - Mozart's Cos\u00ec fan tutte | 20181004 | Tom McKinney presents Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte, given at the 2017 Enescu Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Mozart's satirical and sparkling opera Così fan tutte K.588 is given by Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, from 2017's Enescu Festival in Bucharest. The opera wasn't particularly well-received at its premiere in 1790, and the subject matter remains divisive today as Don Alfonso tried to prove that no woman can be faithful to her lover. But romantic cynicism aside, the music brims with sublime arias and vocal fireworks, and in the end everyone agrees that's it better to laugh than to cry. It's presented by Tom McKinney. Ana Maria Labin, Fiordiligi (soprano) Les Musiciens du Louvre This afternoon's broadcast concludes our series of Mozart's Da Ponte opera trilogy. You can catch up with parts 1 & 2 via the BBC Radio Player. |
| Thursday: Opera Matinee - Verdi's Aida | 20180913 | Tom Redmond presents Verdi's Aida from the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond brings in the new season of Opera Matinees on Afternoon Concert with Verdi's Aida - a timeless tragedy set in ancient Egypt with themes of war, national pride, freedom-fighting and exile that are as relevant to today's Mediterranean basin as it would have been to Verdi in the 19th century. In keeping with the week's Belgian theme, this performance comes from the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Aida ..... Adina Aaron (soprano) Tom Redmond presents Verdi's Aida from the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond brings in the new season of Opera Matinees on Afternoon Concert with Verdi's Aida - a timeless tragedy set in ancient Egypt with themes of war, national pride, freedom-fighting and exile that are as relevant to today's Mediterranean basin as it would have been to Verdi in the 19th century. In keeping with the week's Belgian theme, this performance comes from the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Aida....Adina Aaron (soprano) |
| Tom McKinney and the Suisse Romande Orchestra | 20180713 | Tom McKinney and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces the last of this week's concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra featuring music by Ravel, Brahms and Richard Strauss c14.02 Claude Debussy: "L'Apres midi d'une faune" c14.15 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major c14.42 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott c15.38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Rafael Payare c16.02 Johann Strauss II: An Artist's Life c16.15 Richard Strauss: Ballet - "Schlagobers" (Whipped Cream) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. |
| Tom Mckinney And The Suisse Romande Orchestra | 20180713 | Tom McKinney and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces the last of this week's concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra featuring music by Ravel, Brahms and Richard Strauss c14.02 Claude Debussy: "L'Apres midi d'une faune" c14.15 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major c14.42 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott c15.38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Rafael Payare c16.02 Johann Strauss II: An Artist's Life c16.15 Richard Strauss: Ballet - "Schlagobers" (Whipped Cream) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. Tom McKinney and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Tom McKinney introduces the last of this week's concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra featuring music by Ravel, Brahms and Richard Strauss c14.02 Claude Debussy: "L'Apres midi d'une faune" c14.15 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major c14.42 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott c15.38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Rafael Payare c16.02 Johann Strauss II: An Artist's Life c16.15 Richard Strauss: Ballet - "Schlagobers" (Whipped Cream) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. |
| Tuesday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20171017 | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Britten, Bruch and Dvorak at Worcester. Penny Gore continues her week of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave a fortnight ago at the University of Worcester Arena, performing Britten, Bruch and Dvorak. Plus Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with a specially recorded piece by Saint-Saëns - his Le Rouet d'Omphale - and concludes with a new release of Elgar's Enigma Variations. 2pm c.3.35pm Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches - suite in A major |
| Tuesday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert | 20180123 | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW. Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Respighi, plus we hear the fruits of the Orchestra's Beethoven Symphony Cycle recorded during a recent tour of North Wales with Principal Guest conductor Xian Zhang, and Soprano Chiara Taigi sings Verdi. 2pm c. 3.45pm c. 4.20pm |
| Tuesday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171010 | The BBC Philharmonic concert series includes Elgar's Symphony No 1. Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, with a particular focus on works by Elgar. The 2pm concert includes his First Symphony, along with Richard Strauss's First Horn Concerto featuring soloist Alberto Menendez. 2pm c. 3.25pm c. 4.05pm |
| Tuesday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180313 | Kate Molleson introduces more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Kate Molleson introduces more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including Beethoven's third piano concerto with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov and Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. c.2pm: c.3.35pm: c.4pm: c.4.30pm: c.4.40pm: |
| Tuesday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180626 | Tom McKinney presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Tom McKinney presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including the UK premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Horn Concerto and symphonies by Beethoven and Copland. 2pm: c.3.20pm: c.3.45pm: c.4.20pm: c.4.25pm: c.4.30pm: c.4.40pm: c.4.45pm: |
| Tuesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live At Mediacityuk In Salford | 20180109 | Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today the orchestra perform Stravinsky's tone poem Song of the Nightingale and music by Rossini and Mozart live at their home in Salford. Plus performances including Saint-Saëns's First Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 2pm - LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford c.3.15pm: c.3.50pm: c.4pm: c.4.30pm: |
| Tuesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20171205 | Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, MediaCityUK, featuring David Matthews' tone poem 'A Vision of the Sea' and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with soprano Ruby Hughes. Plus Juanjo Mena conducts the orchestra in Bruckner's Fourth Symphony. 2pm: c.3pm: Ginastera: Dances from 'Estancia' Copland: Statements c.3.30pm: |
| Tuesday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20171121 | Ian Skelly presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ian Skelly presents concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today, two concerts reflecting the orchestra's desire to bring the best of the classical and the contemporary repertoire to its listeners. In our 2pm concert, recorded in Ayr Town Hall, François Leleux conducts music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony, Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto, and at 3.15pm, for our second concert, we travel from Nuremberg in Germany to the south coast of Australia courtesy of Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersingers, Respighi's Pines of Rome and Christian Lindberg's The Waves of Wollongong. 2pm 3.15pm |
| Tuesday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180424 | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen in Glasgow City Halls. Georgia Mann continues a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert centred around Nielsen. Soprano Denise Beck and the Danish String Quartet join the strings of the orchestra for a sequence of songs and miniatures before the composer's more familiar violin Concerto and Symphony no. 3. Plus Simon Callaghan is soloist in a new recording of the Piano Concerto by Bernhard Scholz. 2pm Nielsen Concerto Op.33 for violin and orchestra c.3.45pm Scholz Concerto in B major Op.57 for piano and orchestra |
| Tuesday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Chorus | 20171024 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Barbican plus new studio recordings. Jonathan Swain continues his week of performances and recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with the orchestra in concert at the Barbican two weeks ago, with repertoire including the UK premiere of Thomas Larcher's Red and Green, and Bruch's Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra. There's Polish music too - the Orchestra is joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus and tenor Ben Johnson for a new recording of Szymanowski's Symphony no.3, and Tasmin Little is soloist in Karlowicz's Violin Concerto. Plus the Orchestra celebrate Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with works by Musorgsky and Saint-Saens. 2pm c.3.30pm Musorgsky ed Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on the Bare Mountain c.4.10pm Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune, Op 30 |
| Tuesday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers | 20180213 | Kate Molleson continues her week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Today includes a concert the BBC Singers gave at the John Armitage Memorial Festival on the Kent Marshes, with an English programme including a premiere by Tom Harrold and Stuart Beatch. Plus a new recording of Florent Schmitt's Antony and Cleopatra Suite No 1, and Bartok's Two Pictures 2pm c.3.25pm c3.50pm c.4.00pm c.4.35pm |
| Tuesday - European Concert Showcase | 20171128 | Tom McKinney presents concerts from across Europe, including Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Tom McKinney presents concerts from across Europe this week. Today's selection includes Herbert Blomstedt's 90th birthday concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony in Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, plus the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the 'Pastoral', recorded at the Prague Spring International Music Festival. 2pm: c.3.35pm: Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, 'Pastoral' |
| Tuesday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171003 | Radio France Philharmonic in Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Mahler's First Symphony. Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings launching Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert. Today's 2pm concert features two works which push the boundaries of their forms, Beethoven's Triple Concerto, and Mahler's First Symphony. Plus today's Mozart Piano Concerto is No.22 in E flat K.482 performed by Philippe Cassard, the leading French broadcaster and pianist. Plus choral music by Poulenc from the Radio France chorus. 2pm c. 4pm |
| Tuesday - The Bbc Concert Orchestra, Live From Watford Colosseum | 20171212 | BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum, London, with music by Dvorak and Bartok The BBC performing groups live week continues with the BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum, London. Jaime Martin conducts a programme taking in Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with Dvorak's The Noonday Witch, followed by Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Then back to Broadcasting House for a recent recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under conductor Martin Yates, of Arnold Bax's symphonic poem Tintagel. The afternoon comes to a close with Beethoven's Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in C minor, with Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, recorded recently in Barcelona. 2.00pm Presented by Fiona Talkington LIVE from Watford Colosseum 3.50pm - Back to the studio with Jonathan Swain 4.10pm |
| Tuesday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180206 | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concert. Fiona Talkington continues a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert which the orchestra gave in Glasgow City Halls under conductor François Leleux. There's more from a new recording of violin music by British composers, today featuring Kenneth Leighton's Violin Concerto, and the orchestra perform symphonies by Tippett and Brahms. 2pm c.2.55pm Tippett: Symphony No 2 c.3.55pm Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 |
| Tuesday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180306 | Jonathan Swain introduces more recordings of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan Swain introduces more recordings of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Martyn Brabbins conducts Debussy, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and John Wilson conducts the music of Richard Rodney Bennett. 2pm 3.20pm 3.55pm Afternoon Concert this week focuses on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and today's programme begins with a full concert recorded in January at Aberdeen Music Hall. Martyn Brabbins conducted three cornerstones of the repertoire: Debussy's groundbreaking tone poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and an early Mozart Piano Concerto featuring the young Dutch pianist Arthur Jussen, also known from the duo in which he performs with his brother Lucas. Danny Driver is the soloist in another concerto, by the 19th and 20th century American composer Amy Beach, and percussionist Colin Currie is the soloist in Richard Rodney Bennett's Marimba Concerto. This is a recording made last year in Glasgow by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor John Wilson joined them to conduct a number of works by the late Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, whose versatile musical vision took in classical and jazz. Today there's also a chance to hear his Third Symphony. |
| Tuesday - The Best Of 2017 - Bbc Concert Orchestra, Bbc Singers And Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20171226 | The Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups. This week Afternoon Concert celebrates the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups. Today features music from the ballet performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Watford Colosseum. Eric Whitacre conducts the BBC Singers in one of his own pieces, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is joined by Beatrice Rana and B Tommy Andersson for a highlight concert from Hoddinott Hall. Presented by Jonathan Swain 2pm c.3.20pm c.3.25pm c.4.05pm |
| Tuesday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180320 | Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes the World Premiere of a trumpet concerto by the Venezuelan-Spanish composer Giancarlo Castro and concludes with Bartók's colourful 5-movement Concerto for Orchestra. 2pm 3.35pm |
| Tuesday - Ulster Orchestra | 20171031 | Tom McKinney presents the Ulster Orchestra, playing Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2. Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Smetana, Janáček and Sibelius, as well as a performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2, Op.61, written towards the end of the composer's creative life. 2pm 3.05pm Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 4.05pm |
| Tuesday - Ulster Orchestra Live From Ulster Hall In Belfast | 20180515 | The Ulster Orchestra performs Copland and Mendelssohn live from Ulster Hall in Belfast. John Toal introduces the Ulster Orchestra in concert live from Ulster Hall in Belfast featuring the dazzling young clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe as soloist in Copland's concerto and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. After which we return to this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, performing Mahler's mighty 7th symphony and the world premiere broadcast of John Croft's 'Lost songs' and Round for Orchestra by the Canadian composer Cassandra Miller. 2pm c.3.05pm c.4.25pm |
| Tuesday: A Symphony of Trees | 20180911 | A Symphony of Trees by Piet Swerts performed in Ypres to commemorate World War I Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom Redmond continues with a week of concerts recorded in Belgium. Today's concert is the world premiere of the oratorio 'A Symphony of Trees' by the Belgian composer Piet Swerts, commissioned by the City of Ypres as a commemoration of the First World War. The programme also features music recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels - Berg's Violin Concerto and Struass's Dance of the Sven Veils, performed by MusicAeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Piet Swerts: A Symphony of Trees: An Homage to Ivor Gurney and Ypres c.3.25pm: c.3.55pm: c.4.05pm: c.4.20pm: |
| Wednesday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20171018 | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales feature in a 2017 concert given in Newtown, Powys. Penny Gore continues her week of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's programme features a concert the orchestra gave in Newtown in September. 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason is soloist in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No.1, and Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. 2pm Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) |
| Wednesday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales' 90th Anniversary Celebrations | 20180411 | Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary. From the band's beginnings as the Western Studio Orchestra in the Assembly Rooms Cardiff's City Hall, through the orchestra's adventurous tour in what was, then, East Germany, to its enduring three decade-long partnership with Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka, Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th Anniversary with a week of Afternoon Concerts that explore the orchestra's role in Welsh musical life and beyond. Kate continues her journey through the orchestra's history with a this performance of Mahler made on tour at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo in May 1991. Plus we hear from Principal Conductor Mark Wigglesworth in music by Webern. Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor c.3.15pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert | 20180124 | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW. Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Smetana and Janacek, plus we hear from New Generation Artist, the soprano Fatma Said. 2pm c. 3.10pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171011 | Tom Redmond presents as the BBC Philharmonic perform Beethoven's 8th Symphony. Tom Redmond presents recordings from the BBC Philharmonic, today including a world premiere performance of Raymond Yiu's 'The World was once all miracle' and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. 2pm c. 3.20pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171206 | Tom Redmond presents a BBC Philharmonic concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Tom Redmond presents a concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony and a UK premiere performance of Caroline Shaw's 'Entr'acte'. 2pm: c.3pm: c.3.15pm: |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk | 20180627 | Tom McKinney with the second of this week's live concerts from the orchestra in Salford. Tom McKinney presents the second of this week's live concerts from the orchestra's home in Salford. Today Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti performs Bartók's second violin concerto, followed by Brahms' second symphony. 2pm: c.3.20pm: |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20171122 | Stuart Flinders presents the BBC Philharmonic live at MediaCityUK in Salford. Stuart Flinders presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring music by Lyadov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ravel and Ibert. Our live 2pm Concert opens with a 'fantastic scherzo', Kikimora, a tone poem by Lyadov depicting witches. Kikimora takes its inspiration, and name, from a legendary female figure of Slavic folklore. The dark and moody orchestral colours make this piece both mesmerisingly menacing and harmonically haunting. Sofia Gubaidulina's powerful 1996 Viola Concerto will be performed today by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lawrence Power, before a visit to Spain for Ravel's colourful Rapsodie espagnole. Closing this afternoon's live broadcast, and continuing the theme of sunny climes, is Ibert's Escales ('Ports of Call'). Imagine a cruise round the Mediterranean, stopping off at Palermo, Rome, Tunis and Valencia 2pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford | 20180314 | Kate Molleson presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford. Kate Molleson presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford featuring music by the Spanish composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, with soprano Berit Norbakken Solset, followed by Copland's 'Short Symphony'. c.2pm: c.3pm: |
| Wednesday - Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford | 20180418 | Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home at MediaCityUK. Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring music by Prokofiev, Jolivet, Shostakovich and Haydn. 2pm: |
| Wednesday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180516 | Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert at Sage Gateshead. Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert at Sage Gateshead performing music by Beethoven, Ravel and Berlioz. 2pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Singers | 20171025 | The BBC Singers in concert with music by John Tavener. Jonathan Swain presents a concert the BBC Singers gave last month in memory of John Tavener at St Peter's Eaton Square, London. The concert was bookended by the music of Tavener himself, including the UK premiere of The Martyrdom of St Stephen alongside Requiem Fragments. Requiem Fragments is preceded by Josquin des Prez's Qui habitat, the work that influenced Tavener's Requiem composition. Alongside works by Thomas Tallis and Thomas Crecquillon are pieces by 21st-century composers Matthew Martin and Nico Muhly. 2pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Singers Perform Leonard Bernstein | 20180131 | Tom McKinney introduces a concert with the BBC Singers performing music by Bernstein. Tom McKinney introduces a concert with the BBC Singers, conducted by Ragnar Bohin and recorded last weekend at St Giles, Cripplegate, as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion series dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. The concert starts with Hashkiveinu for solo cantor, mixed chorus and organ; it's followed by his Missa Brevis for countertenor, chorus and percussion; then we hear Simchu Na for chorus and piano, Soldier's Song from The Lark for chorus and percussion, ending with his Chichester Psalms. This concert is followed by two tone poems performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra; first, Judith Weir Heroic Strokes of the Bow, with conductor Martyn Brabbins at the helm, and then Vincent D'Indy's Istar, this time with the orchestra under the baton of Pascal Rophé. 2.00pm 2.55pm 3.15pm |
| Wednesday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180214 | Kate Molleson presents a performance of Falla's El amor brujo, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra was joined by the flamenco singer Maria Toledo. Plus the BBC Singers perform some recent choral compositions including works by Errollyn Wallen and Yumi Hara. 2pm c.2.40pm |
| Wednesday - European Concert Showcase | 20171129 | The Czech Philharmonic play Strauss at the 2017 Prague Spring International Music Festival Tom McKinney presents a selection of the finest concerts from across Europe this week, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a free swapping service between European broadcasters. Today's focus is on the Czech Philharmonic in concert at the 2017 Prague Spring International Music Festival, including Strauss's Symphonia Domestica. 2pm: |
| Wednesday - Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra | 20180404 | Penny Gore introduces more recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. |
| Wednesday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171004 | The Radio France Philharmonic in Haydn's 'Drumroll' Symphony No 103. Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings. Today's 2pm concert features the orchestra with conductor Roger Norrington. Haydn Symphony No.103 caused great surprise with its unorthodox drumroll start, and today's Mozart piano concerto, No.23 in A, K.488, is performed by Japanese pianist Momo Kodama, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Plus the Radio France choir perform rare French choral music by Daniel-Lesur and Florent Schmitt. 2pm |
| Wednesday - The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk Salford | 20180207 | Tom Redmond presents the BBC Philharmonic live from their home at MediaCityUK Salford. Tom Redmond presents the BBC Philharmonic LIVE from their home at MediaCityUK Salford. John Storgards conducts the orchestra in a programme of music by the modernist American composer George Antheil, including his 3rd Symphony, the American. 2pm |
| Wednesday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180307 | Jonathan Swain introduces a concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of music from Hungary given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 2pm Today's afternoon concert was recorded in Glasgow last month, and featured works by two titans of Hungarian music: Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. The Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen brings a countryman's understanding to Bartók's First Violin Concerto, with its powerful and plaintive melodies. There's also a chance to hear the orchestral arrangement of Bartók's Second Rhapsody (originally for violin and piano), and music from the score to his controversial ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. |
| Wednesday - The Best Of 2017 - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171227 | The Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups. Featuring the BBC Philharmonic. Jonathan Swain continues the Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups. Today features a concert the BBC Philharmonic gave on tour in Santander. Juan Floristan joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's ever-popular Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, and the orchestra take centre stage in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. 2pm |
| Wednesday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180321 | Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing Dukas, Debussy and Ravel's La valse. Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Dukas and Debussy and concludes with Ravel's dazzling evocation of gliding dancers, warped and transmuted into something rather more sinister in his La valse. 2pm |
| Wednesday - The Ulster Orchestra Live With Music By Mendelssohn And Liszt | 20171213 | Live from Ulster Hall, Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra with music by Mendelssohn and Liszt. Afternoon Concert continues its week of live performances from the BBC performing groups. Today live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts, with Mendelssohn's Overture to Camacho's Wedding, followed by two pieces by Liszt. First, his tone poem Totentanz, with pianist Lauma Skride as soloist, and then The Black Gondola, in a version orchestrated by John Adams. The concert ends again with Mendelssohn and his Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. 2.00pmPresented by John Toal LIVE from Ulster Hall, Belfast Lauma Skride (piano) |
| Wednesday - Ulster Orchestra | 20171101 | Recent rcordings from Ulster Orchestra include Tubin's Double Bass Concerto. Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Mahler and Strauss, as well as performance of Tubin's Double Bass Concerto. 2pm |
| Wednesday: Mahler's Ninth Symphony | 20180912 | Mahler's Symphony No 9 in D recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |