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 | |
| 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 |
| An All-bernstein Concert With The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | 20180326 | of Amsterdam. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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: Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 |
| International Women's Day | 20180308 | Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, chooses music she loves by women composers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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 |
| 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: 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. |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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: Donizetti's La Favorite | 20180315 | Kate Molleson presents this week's Opera Matinee: Donizetti's La Favorite (sung in French) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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: 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 |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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: Kate Molleson introduces more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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: Kate Molleson presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Wednesday - BBC Philharmonic LIVE in Salford | 20180418 | Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home at MediaCityUK. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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. Jonathan Swain introduces a concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 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 |