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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
Joseph Turrin Hemispheres (UK premiere)
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey 3.25
Sherwood Double Concerto
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)
Joseph Spooner (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews 4.00
Cowen Symphony No 5
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews. with Tom McKinney. The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey in concert. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 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
Britten: The Salley Gardens; La Belle est au jardin d'amour; O Waly, Waly; Fileuse
Holst: Japanese Suite, Op 33
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Kern/Hammerstein:'Bill' from Showboat
Sondheim: 'Losing My Mind' from Follies
Copland: El Salón México
Susan Bullock (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth 3.35
Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands
Brighton Festival Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth 4.10
York Bowen: Symphonic Fantasia
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley. BBC Concert Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth in a concert of British and American music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 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
Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (Paris)
Debussy orch. Colin Matthews La terrasse des audience du clair de lune; Feux d'artifice
Bernard Rands Concerto for English horn and orchestra (UK premiere)
Anna Clyne Masquerade Gillian Callow (English horn)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Ben Gernon. with Tom McKinney. A live concert from the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Ben Gernon. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 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
Fra Diavolo.... John Osborn (tenor)
Lord Rocburg.... Roberto de Candia (baritone)
Lady Pamela.... Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano)
Lorenzo.... Giorgio Misseri (tenor)
Zerlina.... Anna Maria Sarra (soprano)
Mathéo.... Alessio Verna (bass)
Giacomo.... Jean Luc Ballestra (bass)
Beppo.... Nicola Pamio (tenor)
Rome Opera Chorus
Rome Opera Orchestra
Rory Macdonald (conductor) 4.15
Damase: Flute Concerto
Anna Noakes (flute)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates 4.40
John Alden Carpenter: Krazy Kat (jazz pantomime)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart. Auber's comic opera about notorious bandit Fra Diavolo and his nemesis, lovelorn Lorenzo. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 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
Eric Coates: The Three Bears - A Phantasy
Robert Farnon: A la Claire Fontaine
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No 1
Peter Hope: Scaramouche
Paul Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood
Alistair McGowan (narrator/presenter)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Michael Collins 3.35
Elgar: Te Deum and Bendictus
Brighton Festival Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth 3.55
Constant Lambert: Horoscope
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth 4.35
John Alden Carpenter: Patterns
Michael Chertock (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart. The BBC Concert Orchestra and Alistair McGowan in a concert of fairy-tale words and music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20180514 | | 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 & 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
Smetana: Ma vlast [My country] - Vltava & Sarka
Chopin: Piano concerto no. 2 in F minor Op.21
Dvorak: Symphony no. 4 in D minor Op.13
David Kadouch (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor) c.3.40pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Op.33a
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major Op.77
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Perth performs Smetana, Chopin & Dvorak. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20190521 | | Hannah French introduces recordings made at Radio France's new Broadcasting House and at the historic Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Today the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Mikko Franck and the principal conductor-designate of the Berlin Philharmnic, Kirill Petrenko. Also today, Evgeny Kissin joins the Orchestre National de France and conductor, Emmanuel Krivine for Liszt's First Piano Concerto. And the afternoon ends with a real rarity, an orchestral reconstruction of Debussy's early Symphony in b minor L.B. (1880).Berlioz: Grande fête chez les Capulet, from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 17
Hector Berlioz: La mort d'Ophélie, op. 18/2, from 'Tristia'
Chausson: Poème, op. 25
Ravel: Tzigane
Martin Matalon (1958) - Rugged (Premiere) Anna Tifu (violin),
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck, conductor followed at approx 3pm by :
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, op. 29, symphonic poem
Scriabin: Poème de l'extase (Symphony No. 4), op. 54
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor) and at approx 3.45pm Richard Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124 Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor) Debussy: Symphony in b minor L.B. (1880)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck, conductor Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20200323 | | Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams. Berlioz Le Carnaval Romaine Overture, Op. 9 Elgar Cello Concerto, Op. 85
Natalie Clein (cello) Joubert An English Requiem
Neal Davies (bass)
April Frederick (soprano)
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Three Cathedral Choirs Boy Choristers BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral Grace Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20200324 | | Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams. Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel (overture) Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Bernard Herrmann Psycho suite Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures from an Exhibition BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jaume Santonja (conductor) Grainger: The Warriors
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Birmingham Symphony Hall Strauss Tod und Verklarung
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kazushi Ono (conductor) Grace Williams Symphony No 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor) Mahler Ruckert Lieder
Ruby Hughes (Soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20200325 | | Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams. Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 Bartok Piano concerto No. 3, Sz. 119
Llyr Williams (piano) Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) Grace Williams Ave Maris Stella BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20200326 | | Opera Matinee: Gounod's Romeo and Juliet from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. From the Royal Opera House's 2010 production, French specialist Daniel Oren conducts Charles Gounod's version of the Shakespeare eternal lovers, Roméo et Juliette, as they fight against hatred and intolerance before paying the ultimate price... The lovers' passionate liaison unravels magnificently through the most romantic duets, but this opera by the composer of Faust, is much more than that as the many rich ensembles and characters make for a compelling musical spectacle, true to The Bard's best dramatic intentions. This revival production by Nicolas Joël, not seen in a decade, features a cast led by Piotr Beczala and Nino Machaidze in the title roles. Cast: Roméo.... Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Juliette.... Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Mercutio.... Stéphane Degout (tenor)
Tybalt.... Alfie Boe (tenor)
Stéphano.... Ketevan Kemoklidze (mezzo soprano)
Duke of Verona.... Simon Neal (bass)
Count Paris.... ZhengZhong Zhou (baritone)
Frére Laurent.... Vitalij Kowaljow (bass)
Count Capulet.... Darren Jeffery (baritone)
Gertrude.... Diana Montague (mezzo soprano)
Grégorio.... James Cleverton (baritone) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House Chorus
Daniel Oren, conductor. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| | 20200327 | | Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of music making by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Brahms Violin Concerto in D major Op.77 Dvorak Symphony no. 9 in E minor Op.95 (From the New World)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clemens Schuldt (Conductor)
Aleksey Semenenko (Violin) D'Indy Lied Op 19
Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer, conductor Bloch Baal Shem 3 pictures from Chassidic life: Vidui & Nigun
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
ŀ?ukas Borowicz (conductor) Concluding a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Bloch Baal Shem 3 pictures from Chassidic life: Vidui & Nigun
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Łukas Borowicz (conductor) |
| 20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 2/5 | 20200128 | | Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work. Today we hear from Lisa Batiashvili, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a career as one of the finest violinists in the world. Sibelius: Symphony No 1
Strauss: Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
Sibelius: Valse triste
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Maalki, conductor Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Bach: Sarabande (Partita No 2)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Francois Leleux, oboe d'amore
Bavarian radio Chamber orchestra
Rodoslaw Sszulc, conductor Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K458, “Hunt ?
Arod Quartet Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Sibelius: Symphony No 1
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2
Bach: Sarabande (Partita No 2)
Strauss: Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
Sibelius: Valse triste Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K458, “Hunt”
Arod Quartet Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2 in G, Sz 95
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor |
| 20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 3/5 | 20200129 | | Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work. Today we hear from Simon Trpceski, who was a New Generation Artist from 2001-3 and has since gone on to play at the world's most prestigious venues. Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat Simon Trpceski (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 4/5 | 20200130 | | Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work. Today we hear from Alban Gerhardt, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a stellar career. Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Bach: Sarabande from Cello Suite No 6
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Maceralu, conductor 3.10: Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111
Belcea Quartet, Antoine Tamestit (viola) 3.40: Strauss: Songs (selection)
Olena Tokar (soprano)
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Gledre Slekyte, conductor 4.00: Berg: Violin Concerto
Veronika Eberle (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 20 Years Of Radio 3 New Generation Artists 1/5 | 20200127 | | Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work. Today we hear from Paul Lewis, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a career as one of the finest pianists in the world. Leyman: Undulating Blue
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat
Holst: The Planets Paul Lewis (piano)
Women of the Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Andrew Manze 3.40: Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1, Op 8
Amatis Piano Trio 3.55: Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
Orchestre Royal de Chamber de Wallonie
Frank Braley, conductor Celebrating 20 years of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 20 Years Of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme 5/5 | 20200131 | | Every day this week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work. Today we hear from Antoine Tamestit (2004-2006) and Martin Helmchen (2005-2007), both of whom are now major players on the world stage. Haydn: Symphony No 95 in C minor
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Bartok: Allegro giocoso, from “44 Duos ?
Shostakovich: Symphony No 6 Antoine Tamestit (viola)
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Hartmut Haenchen, conductor Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2
Calidore Quartet Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Klaus Makela, conductor Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 55,000 Notes | 20200217 | | Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, launched by the Everest of piano concertos. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in an all-Rachmaninov programme, in which Russian virtuoso pianist Denis Matsuev tackles the towering 55,000 notes of the Third Piano Concerto. Plus star violinist Leonidas Kavakos moves to the conductor's podium for Beethoven at the 2019 Verbier Festival. Presented by Kate Molleson Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30
with Denis Matsuev (piano)
2.45pm
Vocalise (orchestral version)
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor Riccardo Chailly 3.40pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Leonidas Kavakos The first of five Afternoon Concert programmes featuring concerts from the 2019 Lucerne Festival and its fellow Swiss festival in Verbier. Featuring:
- Bernard Haitink conducting his very last concert ever: the Vienna Philharmonic playing Beethoven and Bruckner
- Kirill Petrenko conducting Tchaikovsky with the Berlin Philharmonic
- Riccardo Chailly and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Mahler, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich with the Verbier Festival Orchestra - whose members are drawn from the world's top orchestras
- Four leading soloists: pianist Denis Matsuev and Emanuel Ax, and violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Leonidas Kavakos - who also conducts the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Celebration Of Bastille Day In France | 20201230 | | A celebration of Bastille Day: French National Holiday at the Champ de Mars in Paris, with the French National Orchestra under Eun Sun Kim: popular orchestral pieces, traditional French songs and famous opera arias and choruses by Berlioz, Bizet, Verdi, Bernstein, Ravel, Mozart and others. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Berlioz: Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust
Edith Piaf: Hymne à l'Amour
Bizet: 'Au fond du temple saint', from The Pearl Fishers
Verdi: 'Va, pensiero' (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco
Leonard Bernstein: I Feel Pretty, from West Side Story
Delibes: Les filles de Cadix
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, op. 84
Gounod: 'Ah! Lève-toi, soleil', from Roméo et Juliette
Charlie Chaplin: City Memories
Lalo: Allegro vivace from Cello Concerto in D minor, op. 35
Catalani: 'Ebben? Ne andrò lontana' from La Wally
Bizet: Prelude to Act 3 of Carmen
Verdi: 'Noi siamo zingarelle' from La Traviata
Charles Aznavour: La bohème
José Serrano: Marinela, from La canción del olvido
Ravel: Boléro (arr. Didier Benetti)
Mozart: Andante from Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Fatma Said and Sonya Yoncheva (sopranos)
Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)
Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Lucienne Renaudin Vary (trumpet)
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
Radio France Chorus and Children's Chorus
Orchestre National de France
Conductor Eun Sun Kim Music to celebrate Bastille Day at the Champ de Mars in Paris. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Finnish New Year | 20180101 | | 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
Magnus Lindberg: Violin Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor 3.40
Uuno Klami (1900-1961): Psalmus
Helena Juntune, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Helsinki Music Centre Chorus
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor. Performances by Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Berlin | 20181008 | | 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
Dvorak
Stabat mater, Op.88
Simona Saturova, soprano
Elisabeth Kulman, contralto
Steve Davislim, tenor
Jan Martinik, bass
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa, conductor 3.30pm
Bernstein
Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)
Mahler
Symphony no.1 in D
Erez Ofer, violin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor Penny Gore with Dvorak, Bernstein and Mahler given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Berlin | 20181009 | | 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
Haydn
St Cecilia Mass
interspersed with:
Michael Haydn
Ave Regina coelorum
and
Georg Reutter
Motetto De Tempore B.V. & SS. Trinitae
Johanna Winkel, soprano
Sophie Harmsen, contralto
Benjamin Bruns, tenor
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass
RIAS Chamber Chorus
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Justin Doyle, director 3.25pm
Leopold Mozart
Litaniae Lauretanae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C minor, K.427 "Great"
Christina Landshamer, soprano
Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano
Steve Davislim, tenor
Tobias Berndt, bariton
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Howard Arman, director 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 |
| A Week In Berlin | 20181010 | | 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
Mozart
Symphony no.38 in D, K.504 "Prague"
Zemlinsky
Lyric Symphony, Op.18
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Penny Gore presents the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Mozart and Zemlinsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Berlin | 20181012 | | 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
Britten
Sinfonia da requiem, Op.20
Liszt
Totentanz
Ades
Totentanz
Kyrill Gerstein, piano
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Ades, conductor 3.20pm
Beethoven orch. Mahler
Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 "Choral"
including:
Schoenberg
A Survivor from Warsaw
Christina Landshamer, soprano
Maria Gortsevskaya, contralto
Torsten Kerl, tenor
Dietrich Henschel, baritone/narrarator
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Penny Gore presents music by Britten, Liszt, Ades, Schoenberg and Beethoven Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180521 | | 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
Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op 115 (highlights)
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Harding c. 3.50pm
Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major
Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Susanna Mälkki Coming up later in the week:
- Tuesday's programme is entirely conducted or composed by women and features Handel's oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm and starring Sandrine Piau.
- Opera Matinee on Thursday is a controversial production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera with British bass Clive Bayley in the title role.
- On Friday Daniel Harding conducts his Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in an enormous Mahlerian Symphony by probably the most controversial composer ever to be born in Sweden, Allan Pettersson. Georgia Mann presents concerts from Sweden: music by Berwald, Schumann, Strauss and Mahler Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180522 | | 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
Bellezza (Beauty)... Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Piacere (Pleasure)... Inga Kalna (soprano)
Disinganno (Disillusionment)... Romina Basso (contralto)
Tempo (Time)... Michael Spyres (tenor)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Emmanuelle Haïm c. 4pm
Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto in A minor
Emmanuel Laville (oboe)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Dalia Stasevska c. 4.30pm
Britta Byström: Segelnde Stadt
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden conducted and composed by women. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180523 | | 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)
Sven-David Sandström: Five Pieces for Piano and Orchestra
with Peter Friis Johansson (piano)
Schnittke: Moz-art à la Haydn
Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat, Op 70
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber. Georgia Mann presents the Swedish Radio SO in music by Haydn, Schnittke and Shostakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180524 | | 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)
Boris Godunov... Clive Bayley (bass)
Fyodor, Boris's son... Solgerd Isalv (mezzo-soprano)
Kseniya, Boris's daughter... Anna Johansson (soprano)
Kseniya's nurse... Mari Lindbäck (contralto)
Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky... Tomas Lind (tenor)
Andrey Shchelkalov... Mats Persson (baritone)
Pimen... Mats Almgren (bass)
Grigory, the Pretender... Joachim Bäckström (tenor) Varlaam, a vagabond... Johan Schinkler (bass)
Innkeeper... Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano)
Misail, a vagabond / Yuródivïy (Holy Fool)...
Conny Thimander (tenor) Nikitich... Jonas Landström (bass)
Mitiyukha... Tomas Jönsson (bass)
Gothenburg Children's Choir
Gothenburg Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Leo Hussain c. 4.05pm
Strauss: Don Juan
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Ariane Matiakh Aulis Sallinen: The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote, Op 58
with Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| A Week In Sweden | 20180525 | | 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'
Kurt Atterberg: Cello Concerto in C minor, Op 21
with Jakob Koranyi (cello)
Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No 6 in D major, Op 60
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jaime Martin c. 3.30pm
Music from the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra recorded earlier this afternoon in Perth at BBC Music's Biggest Weekend c. 3.40pm
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
with Maximilian Hornung (cello)
Allan Pettersson: Symphony No 7
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Harding. Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden and previews BBC Music's Biggest Weekend in Perth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Afternoon Concert With Georgia Mann | 20181022 | | Georgia Mann with music by Brumel, Poulenc, Walton and Mozart Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Brumel's spectacular Earthquake Mass and a performance of Poulenc's Figure humaine with jazz interpolations. After a performance of Walton's Sonata for String Orchestra with Edward Gardner, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gergely Madaras, performs works by Judit Varga, Mozart and Dohnanyi. 2.00pm
Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus 'The Earthquake Mass'
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor) 2.40pm
Poulenc: Figure humaine (with jazz interpolations)
Misha Mullov-Abbado (NGA) (bass)
Jon Scott (drums)
Sam Leak (piano)
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor) 3.20pm
Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.45pm
Judit Varga: “alles Fleisch…” (UK premiere)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) 4.05pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K488
Mariam Batashvili (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) 4.35pm
Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) Georgia Mann with music by Brumel, Poulenc, Walton and Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Afternoon Concert With Georgia Mann | 20181023 | | Georgia Mann with music by Sibelius, Rautavaara, Stravinsky, Britten and Strauss. Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert that starts with Sibelius's rousing and patriotic tone poem Finlandia. The programme also includes a performance of Helen Grime's Everyone Sang, a piece in which she imagined "the orchestra as being made up of many voices, capable of producing a unified and joyful melody that could also break off into many individual and varied strands of song. The piece juxtaposes a sense of celebratory joy with a sense of melancholy." The afternoon ends with Sir Andrew Davis leading the orchestra with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar's equally rousing choral work The Music Makers. 2.00pm
Sibelius: Finlandia
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 3 Gift of Dreams
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol - Symphonic Poem
Olli Mustonen (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor) 3.00pm
Britten: A Boy Was Born
BBC Singers
Matthew Halls 3.30pm
Strauss: Suite in B flat, Op.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Boyd (conductor) 3.55pm
Helen Grime: Everyone Sang
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 4.10pm
Elgar: The Music Makers
Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chrous and Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor) Features a performance of Sibelius's rousing and patriotic tone poem Finlandia. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Afternoon Concert With Georgia Mann | 20181024 | | Georgia Mann presents music from Estonia by Tulve, Tuur and Tubin: Olari Elts conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And pianist Louis Lortie joins the BBC SO and Sir Andrew Davis for Finzi's Grand Fantasia and Toccata. 2.00pm
Helena Tulve: Extinction des choses vues (UK premiere)
Erkki-Sven Tuur: Prophecy (UK premiere)
Tubin: Symphony No. 7
Mika Vayranen (accordion)
BBC Symphony orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor) 3.05pm
Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op.38
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis Music from Estonia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra including Eduard Tubin's Symphony No 7. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Afternoon Concert With Georgia Mann | 20181026 | | Georgia Mann introduces music by Boris Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Sviridov, Finzi and Saariaho. Alexander Vedernikov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert including Ravel's luscious orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade with the soprano Fatma Said. 2.00pm
Boris Tchaikovsky: Music for Orchestra (UK premiere)
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Sviridov: Time, Forward March! Suite (UK premiere)
Fatma Said (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) 3.00pm
Judith Weir: Drop Down, Ye Heavens, From Above
Bax: This Worldes Joie
Weir: Ave Regina Caelorum
Maxwell Davies: Lullaby for Lucy
Williamson: Love, the Sentinel
Elgar: Go, song of mine
Bliss: The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God
BBC Singers
Owain Park (conductor) 3.45pm
Finzi: Cello Concerto Op.40
Paul Watkins (cello)
BBC Sympony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis 4.20pm
Kaija Saariaho: Orion
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Features Ravel's luscious song cycle Sheherazade with soprano Fatma Said. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Afternoon Opera Matinee: Smetana's The Bartered Bride | 20190718 | | Kate Molleson introduces a recording of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, recorded at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Kruschina/Krušina....Oliver Zwarg (baritone)
Kathinka/Ludmila....Helena Zubanovich (soprano)
Marie/Mařenka....Selene Zanetti (soprano)
Micha/Mícha....Kristof Klorek (bass)
Agnes/Háta....Irmgard Vilsmaier (mezzo-soprano)
Wenzel/Vašek....Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor)
Hans/Jeník....Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Kezal/Kecal....Günther Groissböck (bass)
Springer/Principál....Ulrich Ress (tenor)
Esmeralda, a dancer....Anna El-Khashem (soprano)
Muff, a comedian dressed as an Indian....Oğulcan Yilmaz (bass-baritone)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus
Sören Eckhoff (chorus master)
Bavarian State Orchestra
Tomáš Hanus (conductor) 4.25p.m.: Janacek Quartet no. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata) for strings, arr. Richard Tognetti for string orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (director) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet Starring Carlos Alvarez And Diana Damarau | 20191010 | | Ambroise Thomas - Hamlet, opera in five acts after Shakespeare
Penny Gore introduces this most spectacular of French grand opera in a performance given earlier this year at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Following in the footsteps of Bellini, Berlioz and Gounod, Ambroise Thomas fell under the spell of Shakespeare and the romantic figure of Ophelia. And, following French fashion at the time, he and his librettists focused on the Romantic essentials of the drama: Hamlet's predicament, his withdrawal and the emptiness felt by Ophelia. Her Mad Scene, the Grave Diggers's Scene and the obligatory French Grand Ballet are the highlights of this colourful epic.Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Carlos Álvarez (baritone)
Ophelia, daughter of Polonius: Diana Damrau (soprano)
Claudius, King of Denmark, brother of the late King Hamlet: Nicolas Testé (bass)
Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, widow of King Hamlet and mother to Prince Hamlet: Eve-Maud Hubeaux (mezzo-soprano)
Laërtes, son of Polonius: Celso Albelo (tenor)
Ghost of the late King HamletIvo Stanchev (bass)
Marcellus, friend of Hamlet: Albert Casals (tenor)
Horatio, friend of Hamlet: Enric Martínez-Castignani (bass)
Polonius, court chancellor: Rubén Amoretti (bass)
First Gravedigger: Carlos Daza (baritone)
Second Gravedigger: Josep Fadó (tenor) Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barelona
Daniel Oren (conductor) [recorded at Gran Teatre del Liceu, on 07 March 2019] Afternoon Opera - Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet starring Carlos Alvarez and Diana Damarau. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet Starring Carlos Alvarez And Diana Damrau | 20191010 | | Ambroise Thomas - Hamlet, opera in five acts after Shakespeare
Penny Gore introduces this most spectacular of French grand opera in a performance given earlier this year at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Following in the footsteps of Bellini, Berlioz and Gounod, Ambroise Thomas fell under the spell of Shakespeare and the romantic figure of Ophelia. And, following French fashion at the time, he and his librettists focused on the Romantic essentials of the drama: Hamlet's predicament, his withdrawal and the emptiness felt by Ophelia. Her Mad Scene, the Grave Diggers' Scene and the obligatory French Grand Ballet are the highlights of this colourful epic.Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Carlos Álvarez (baritone)
Ophelia, daughter of Polonius: Diana Damrau (soprano)
Claudius, King of Denmark, brother of the late King Hamlet: Nicolas Testé (bass)
Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, widow of King Hamlet and mother to Prince Hamlet: Eve-Maud Hubeaux (mezzo-soprano)
Laërtes, son of Polonius: Celso Albelo (tenor)
Ghost of the late King Hamlet: Ivo Stanchev (bass)
Marcellus, friend of Hamlet: Albert Casals (tenor)
Horatio, friend of Hamlet: Enric Martínez-Castignani (bass)
Polonius, court chancellor: Rubén Amoretti (bass)
First Gravedigger: Carlos Daza (baritone)
Second Gravedigger: Josep Fadó (tenor) Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barelona
Daniel Oren (conductor) [recorded at Gran Teatre del Liceu, on 07 March 2019] Afternoon Opera - Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet starring Carlos Alvarez and Diana Damrau. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| An All-bernstein Concert With The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | 20180326 | | 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.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.2.00pm
Bernstein: 'On the Town' - New York, New York; Lonely Town; I can cook too
Bernstein: 'Peter Pan' - Dream with me
Bernstein: 'Wonderful Town' - A little bit in love; One hundred easy ways to lose a man
Bernstein: 'On the Waterfront' - Suite
Bernstein: 'Candide' - Overture; I am easily assimilated (Buenos Aires); Nothing more than this; Glitter and be Gay
Bernstein: '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' - Take care of this house
Bernstein: 'West Side Story' - The Dance at the Gym Blues; Promenade; Mambo; Cha-Cha; Jump; Maria
Bernstein: 'Trouble in Tahiti' - Island Magic
Bernstein: 'Wonderful Town' - Wrong note rag
Bernstein: 'On the Town' - Some other time
Bernstein: 'West Side Story' - Tonight
Scarlett Strallen (soprano)
Kim Criswell (mezzo-soprano)
Julian Ovenden (tenor)
Nadim Naaman (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor John Wilson 3.35pm
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D major, Op. 61
Prokofiev: 'Romeo and Juliet' - highlights
Arthur Jussen and Lucas Jussen (pianos)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky. An all-Bernstein concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ascona Music Festival 2019 | 20200520 | | Continuing this week's celebration of summer festivals in Switzerland, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, visiting the Ascona Music Festival for the first time, play favourites by Sibelius and Brahms. Presented by Hannah French. 2.00pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73
Elina Vähälä, violin
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra play music by Sibelius and Brahms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach | 20171218 | | Penny Gore presents works by Telemann and Bach performed by Philippe Jaroussky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra 2.00 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture: St Matthew Passion, TWV 5:53.
Cantata: Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus, TWV 1:364
Overture: Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus, TWV 5:1
Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen, TWV 1:983 J.S. Bach
Sinfonia: 'Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt', BWV 18
Sinfonia: 'Der Herr denket an uns', BWV 196
Sinfonia: 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis' BWV 21
Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Petra Müllejans, director 3.25 pm
J.S. Bach
Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083
Ania Vegry, soprano
Hilke Andersen, contralto
Hanover Girls' Chorus
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
David Stein, conductor 4.00 pm
J.S. Bach
Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform works by Telemann and Bach with Philippe Jaroussky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach | 20171219 | | 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
J.S. Bach
Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn, BWV 119
Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137
Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69
Miriam Feuersinger, soprano
Alex Potter, countertenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass
Netherlands Bach Society
Peter Dijkstra 3.40pm
Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition 2017
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given by the BBC Singers of the six finalists from this year's Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition 2017. Alongside the six settings of 'Sir Christemas', David Hill directs the BBC Singers in popular Christmas songs and carols. The Netherlands Bach Ensemble perform three cantatas by J.S Bach. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach | 20171220 | | 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 arr. Reger: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV 622
Berg: Violin Concerto
Bach arr. Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Michael Barenboim (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann, conductor. The BBC Philharmonic perform Bach arrangements and pieces by Steve Elcock and Alban Berg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach | 20171222 | | Penny Gore presents Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin 3.30pm
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Aapo Häkkinen, harpsichord
Helsinki Baroque Ensemble 3.50pm
J.S Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Orchestral works by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach - St John Passion | 20160324 | | Verity Sharp presents a recording of Bach's St John Passion from Philippe Herreweghe. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach From Paris | 20200413 | | Hannah French presents a celebration of highlights from recent concerts by great French orchestras and ensembles. Today, Bach's great Mass in B minor performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, along with French ballet favourites, played by the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France. Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Mariana Flores, soprano
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano
Paulin Bündgen, countertenor
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Andreas Wolf, bass
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Leonardo García Alarcón, conductor Recorded last November in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43, Suite No. 2 Orchestre National d'Île-de-France
Fabien Gabel, conductor Recorded in January 2019 in the Philharmonie, Paris. Bach's great Mass in B minor, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bach, Bartok, Berio And Brahms From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra | 20190920 | | Music by Bach, Bartok and Brahms, plus Berio's quirky and inventive '60s masterpiece 'Sinfonia' featuring the vocal talents of The Swingle Singers Presented by Hannah French The KBS Symphony Orchestra and conductor Yoel Levi pair orchestral suites by Bach and Bartok with Luciano Berio's ground-breaking Sinfonia, which pitches eight voices singing, shouting, crying and whispering against an orchestral tapestry of quotations, allusions and commentaries. The soloists in this performance, recorded in Seoul last year, are members of The Swingle Singers, the ensemble that gave the work's premiere in 1968 Plus we conclude this week's tribute to Scottish composer Thea Musgrave who last year celebrated her ninetieth birthday 2.00pm
Bach: Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor
Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Berio: Sinfonia
The Swingle Singers
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor 3.20pm
Musgrave: Snow
Hannah Holgersson, soprano
Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais
Pascal Siffert, viola 3.30pm
Brahms: Symphony no.1 in C minor
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Music by Bach, Bartok and Brahms, plus Berio's Sinfonia featuring the Swingle Singers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Baltic Sea Festival - Mahler's Symphony No 8 | 20190102 | | Mahler's “Symphony of a Thousand” – given by a stalwart team of soloists, six of Stockholm's best choirs and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Daniel Harding. This concert was part of the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Mahler – Symphony No.8 in E flat major
Tamara Wilson, soprano
Hanna Husahr, soprano
Ida Falk Winland, soprano
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Anna Larsson, contralto
Simon O'Neill, tenor
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Shenyang, bass
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Mikaeli Chamber Choir
St. Jacob's Chamber Choir
Chorista, Hagersten Parish
Adolf Fredrik Church Descant Choir and Youth Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 8. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Baltic Sea Festival - Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra | 20181231 | | A concert of Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky from the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Plus music by Baltic composers Lars Edlund, Peteris Vasks & Erkki-Sven Tüür. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Rimsky-Korsakov - Suite from “Tsar Saltan”, Op.57
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Velery Gergiev, conductor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite No.2
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Velery Gergiev, conductor Stravinsky - Petrushka
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Velery Gergiev, conductor 3.30pm
Lars Edlund – Gloria
Mats Carlsson, tenor
Swedish Radio Chorus
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor Peteris Vasks – Violin Concerto “Distant Light”
Mark Bouchkov, violin
Sinfonietta Riga
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Normunds Sne, conductor Erkki-Sven Tüür – Lighthouse
Sinfonietta Riga
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Normunds Sne, conductor Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Peteris Vasks and Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr from Stockholm. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Baltic Sea Festival - Ve4stere5s Sinfonietta | 20190101 | | A concert of Beethoven, Haydn, Stravinsky and Mirjam Tally given by the Västerås Sinfonietta at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Plus Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto played by Andrius Zlabys and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Beethoven - Coriolan Overture, Op.62
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor Haydn - Symphony No.44 in E minor "Trauer" (3rd mvt: Adagio)
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor Mirjam Tally - Allikas, homage à Joseph Haydn
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor Stravinsky - Pulcinella
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor Five works by Haydn interspersed with folk music
Emilia Amper, keyed fiddle, vocals
Dan Svensson, percussions, bouzouki, vocals
Västerås Sinfonietta
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano & conductor 3.35pm
Eriks Esenvalds - A drop in the ocean
Latvian Radio Chamber Singers
Sigvards Klava, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen - Piano Concerto
Andrius Zlabys, piano
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Gledre Slekyte, conductor Beethoven, Haydn, Stravinsky and Salonen from the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Baltic Sea Festival - Verdi Requiem | 20190104 | | Domingo Hindoyan conducts Verdi's Requiem at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Plus music by Raminta Serksnyte, Veljo Tormis & Esa-Pekka Salonen. 2.00pm
Verdi - Requiem
Christina Nilsson, soprano
Miriam Treichi, contralto
Daniel Johansson, tenor
Anders Lorentzson, bass
Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Goteborg Opera Chorus
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor 3.25pm
Raminta Serksnyte – Sakura
Swedish Radio Chorus
Latvian Radio Chamber Singers
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Chorus
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Veljo Tormis – Curse Upon Iron
Toomas Tohert (tenor)
Olari Viikholm (bass)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Chorus
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen – Cello Concerto
Truls Mork (cello)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen Presented by Tom McKinney. Verdi's Requiem and music by Raminta Serksnyte, Veljo Tormis and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Baltic Week (5/5) | 20210423 | | Tom McKinney ends his week of music making from the Baltic States with works by Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks and Giya Kancheli plus the Latvian State Chorus in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Arvo Pärt: Silouan’s Song
Peteris Vasks: Cello Concerto No 2 – Klatbutne (Presence)
Uladzimir Sinkevich, cello
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ivan Repušić, conductor 2.40pm
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Ricarda Merbeth, soprano
Olesya Petrova, mezzo soprano
Josep Bros, tenor
Steven Humes, bass
Latvian State Chorus
Cadaqués Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor 4pm
Giya Kancheli, arr. Xylem Trio: Caribbean, fom the film ‘An Unusual Exhibition’
Xylem Trio: Oskars Petrauskis (saxophone), Raimonds Petrauskis (piano), Rihards Zalupe (percussion)
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Andris Poga, conductor The Latvian State Chorus sing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Barefoot Schoenberg | 20200219 | | The Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko play Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja - famous for playing barefoot - in Schoenberg's Violin Concerto. The Times reviewer at this concert in the 2019 Lucerne Festival heard her performance as "a surreal psychodrama without words, volcanic in its outbursts, startling in its juxtapositions... Kopatchinskaja proved here that she's in a class of her own". Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op 36
with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Kirill Petrenko The Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko play Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra In Munich | 20200427 | | Tom McKinney presents a week with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra The week begins with a concert given in January at Munich's Hercules Hall in which Robin Ticciati conducts a programme packed full of drama and excitement ! Wagner's 1880 opera “Parsifal” is based on the Arthurian Knight Percival's quest for the Holy Grail, and it's dripping with Wagnerian leitmotifs and incredible harmonies. The concert opens with a Suite from the opera, constructed last year by Claudio Abbado.
They then move on to a work by British composer George Benjamin – “Sudden Time”, inspired “by a dream in which the sound of a thunderclap seemed to stretch…as if in a spiral through my head”.
That concert concludes with Sibelius' final foray into the symphony – his 7th – one of the last pieces he ever wrote. The final piece in today's programme is Schubert's Mass No.6 in E flat, from a concert also recorded in Munich last October, under the baton of Riccardo Muti. 2.00pm
Wagner, arr.Claudio Abbado: Suite from “Parsifal”
George Benjamin: Sudden Time
Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.105
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor) 3.20pm
Schubert: Mass No.6 in E flat, D.950
Ilse Eerens (soprano),
Henriette Gödde (mezzo-soprano),
Nicholas Phan (tenor),
Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor),
Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Riccardo Muti (conductor) The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Wagner, George Benjamin, Sibelius and Schubert Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra In Munich | 20200501 | | Tom McKinney brings this week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a close. They begin with a concert recorded in Munich in November 2018 which saw conductor Simone Young making her debut with the orchestra. The concert opens with Mozart's final symphony - the Jupiter – arguably one of the greatest symphonies of all time, written some three years before the composer's death in 1791. They conclude with Richard Strauss at his most heroic – Ein Heldenleben, his eighth tone poem, said to be autobiographical, although Strauss himself vehemently denied it. The afternoon continues with a highlight from another concert given in Munich last autumn. This time, Riccardo Muti takes to the podium to conduct the symphony that Schubert left incomplete at his death in 1828 – the 8th, in B minor. The week ends with former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana in a performance of Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto, which he completed in 1921. 2.00pm
Mozart: Symphony No.41 in G minor “Jupiter”, K.551
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor) 3.15pm
Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor “Unfinished”, D.759 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor) 4.00pm
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26 Beatrice Rana (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor) Presented by Tom McKinney The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays music by Mozart, Strauss, Schubert & Prokofiev Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Mozart, Strauss, Schubert and Prokofiev |
| Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Plays Bartok | 20200428 | | Tom McKinney presents more from this week's featured orchestra – the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a concert recorded in Munich last November with conductor Lahav Shani. This was an all-Bartók programme, including his Hungarian Pictures and his tour-de-force Concerto for Orchestra, composed following his emigration to the USA in 1940. Violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the orchestra to play Bartók's Violin Concerto No.2 – written for Zoltán Székely in 1938. The programme continues with a short overture by Schubert, from another concert in Munich, this time under Riccardo Muti. And to end today's Afternoon Concert, two highlights from a concert recorded in Munich last October with conductor Daniele Gatti. They begin with a wonderfully atmospheric piece for string orchestra by Henri Dutilleux - Le mystère de l'instant, and end with Shostakovich's mighty Symphony No.5 2.00pm
Bartók: Hungarian Pictures, Sz.97
Bartók: Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116 Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor) 3.40pm
Schubert: Overture in C, D.591 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor) 3.50pm
Henri Dutilleux: Le mystère de l'instant
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor) Presented by Tom McKinney The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Bart\u00f3k from Munich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Plays Mahler | 20200429 | | We continue this week of programmes from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a concert recorded last October in Munich, under the baton of Daniel Harding. Gustav Mahler completed his Second Symphony in 1894 after six years of work on it. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. Mahler believed that a symphony should be “like the world – it should contain everything”, and there aren't many critics who question his success in that quest in this work. The “Resurrection” was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine. 2.00pm
Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C minor “Resurrection” Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Okka von der Damerau (mezzo-soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor) Presented by Tom McKinney. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra play Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony in Munich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20181112 | | The BBC Concert Orchestra with an electric programme of twentieth- and twenty-first century music. Coinciding with the one-hundred-year anniversary of the RAF, the concert opens with Martinu's composition inspired by Second World War fighter planes. Young Dutch piano duo Arthur and Lucas Jussen give the UK premiere of Together Remember to Dance, the double piano concerto composed by the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova. Pieces by Milhaud and Poulenc complete the programme that shines spotlights on various sections of the orchestra, showcasing their talents. Recorded at Watford Colosseum.
After this concert, the first of four French flute works we'll hear this week with the American soloist Ransom Wilson, and a chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside Truro Cathedral Choir & around 100 students from local secondary schools perform arrangements of traditional folksongs, an anthem by Jonathan Dove, and they're joined by star cellist Natalie Clein in Tabakova's 'On The South Downs', setting words by local poet Francis William Bourdillon which perfectly capture a day's walking on the Downs in Sussex.Martinu: Thunderbolt P-47, Scherzo for Orchestra
Dobrinka Tabakov: Together Remember to Dance (UK Premiere)
Fazil Say: Night
Milhaud: Symphonie de chambre No. 5, Op 75
Milhaud: Symphonie de chambre No. 4, Op 74
Poulenc: Sinfonietta Lucas & Arthur Jussen, piano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor c.3.40pm
Jacques Ibert: Flute Concerto
Ransom Wilson, flute
BBC Concert Orchestra
Perry So, conductor c.4pm
American trad, arr James Erb: Shenandoah
Philip Moore: All wisdom cometh from the Lord
Trad, arr Chilcott: Londonderry Air
Dove: Seek him that maketh the seven stars
Dobrinka Tabakova: On The South Downs Natalie Clein, cello
Truro Cathedral Choir
Youth Choir (from Truro High School for Girls, Richard Lander School, Truro School, Cornwall Youth Choir)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Christopher Gray, conductor The UK premiere of Dobrinka Tabakova's double piano concerto, plus Poulenc and Fazil Say. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20181113 | | David Bedford's work transcends genre and style, reaching audiences in dynamic and refreshing ways. In what would have been his 80th year, the BBC Concert Orchestra presents a concert of his music including Tubular Bells and Symphony No.1. Plus a world premiere by electronic musician Scanner, drawing out the majestic and exploratory nature of Bedford's works. After the concert we've another French flute work featuring the American soloist Ransom Wilson, and music recorded in Truro Cathedral including the first performance of the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova's 'Kynance Cove'. It sets the words of the nineteenth-century Cornish poet John Harris depicting that beautiful, rugged spot on the Lizard Peninsula. Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis (revised version 1981)
Scanner, orch. Quinta: A Little Bit of Everything
Bedford: Symphony No. 1
Oldfield arr Bedford: Orchestral Tubular Bells Steve Hillage, guitar
Scanner, electronics
BBC Concert Orchestra
Michael Seal conductor c.3.40pm
Jean Françaix: Impromptu for Flute and String Orchestra
Ransom Wilson, flute
BBC Concert Orchestra
Perry So, conductor c.3.55pm
Bach: Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056
Graham Fitkin arr. Mutter: Servant
Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove (First performance) Charles Mutter, violin
Truro Cathedral Choir
Youth Choir (from Truro High School for Girls, Richard Lander School, Truro School, Cornwall Youth Choir)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Christopher Gray, conductor Celebrating the 80th birthday of the composer David Bedford with the BBC Concert Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20181114 | | Orchestral family favourites from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey, recorded at Redbridge Town Hall. Opening the concert, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a great introduction to the magic of classical music, while Saint-Saens' Danse macabre is instantly recognisable from its use as a TV theme tune. Celebrating their connection to Redbridge, Bramwell Tovey conducts his local school friend Roderick Elms' piece Cygncopations, and the programme ends with Gordon Jacob's Redbridge Variations. Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Elms: Cygncopations
Debussy: Childrens Corner (orch. André Caplet)
Saint‐Saëns: Danse macabre
Maconchy: Puck Fair (suite) Two Dances
Chaminade: Concertino in D major for Flute, Op 107
Jacob: Redbridge Variations BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor Orchestral family favourites from Britten to Saint-Saens, Debussy and Chaminade. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20200612 | | A concert of Broadway songs and music by Chaminade and Cellier. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras A concert of Broadway songs from Clare Teal and Tom Solomon recorded in January at the Chichester Festival Theatre, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell, introduced by singer, Liz Robertson. Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Sherman & Sherman: 'Mary Poppins' Overture
Sondheim: Not While I'm Around from 'Sweeney Todd'
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Hello Young Lovers from 'The King & I'
Fain, arr Barker: Secret Love from 'Calamity Jane'
Styne, arr Campbell: Old Time Fantasy
Lerner & Lane: Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here! from 'On A Clear Day You'
Herman: I Am What I Am from 'La Cage aux Folles'
Gershwin: Embraceable You
Gershwin: Crazy For You Overture 2.50pm
Kern: A Kern Kaleidoscope
Kern: The Folks Who Live on the Hill from 'High, Wide & Handsome'
Cole Porter: Always True To You from 'Kiss Me Kate'
Lerner & Loewe: I remember it well from 'Gigi'
Styne: People from 'Funny Girl'
Loesser: Luck Be A Lady from 'Guys & Dolls'
Lane: 'On A Clear Day' – Main Theme
Leigh: The Impossible Dream from 'The Man from La Mancha'
Artie Butler: Here's To Life
Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun Overture Clare Teal and Tom Solomon, singers
Liz Robertson, singer and presenter
Catherine Moore, trumpet
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell, conductor 3.50pm
Cécile Chaminade: Concertstuck
Victor Sangiorgio, piano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor 4.05pm
Alfred Cellier: Suite symphonique (1878)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews, conductor |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra - Live | 20181211 | | Live from Watford Colosseum, Fiona Talkington presents the BBC Concert Orchestra performing music by Ravel, Rodrigo, Maconchy & Lutowslawski, with New Generation Artist guitarist Thibaut Garcia & conductor Richard Farnes.
After the live concert, Penny Gore features music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the EFG London Jazz Festival last month. The programme explores the marvels that are composer/performers and the influence of New York City on jazz. Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey is the pianist for Pictures in the Smoke, his work inspired by a line from New York-based poet Dorothy Parker. Gordon Hamilton's piece pays homage to one of New York's greatest jazz composer/performers, John Coltrane, and Coltrane played with Miles Davis whose album Nefertiti has been arranged for orchestra by Guy Barker. The Frontier by Dave Heath explores a range of musical images based upon feelings on returning from a visit to New York City in 1989.Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez
Matos Rodriguez – La Cumparsita
Maconchy – Nocturne for Orchestra
Lutowslawski - Concerto for Orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
Thibaut Garcia, guitar
Richard Farnes, conductor c.3.50pm
Gordon Hamilton: Baby Steps First
Wayne Shorter, arr. Guy Barker: Nefertiti
Dave Heath: The Frontier
Bramwell Tovey: Pictures in the Smoke
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, piano & conductor Live from Watford Colosseum, music by Ravel, Rodrigo, Maconchy and Lutowslawski Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20200608 | | Penny Gore with music by Berners, Arnold, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Delius and others. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras This week Penny Gore presents music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. We start with the 10th-anniversary concert from last year's English Music Festival, recorded in the beautiful Abbey of Dorchester-on-Thames in May 2019. Plus a new CD release and choral music from celebrated British composer Nigel Hess performed by the BBC Singers with their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin. 2.00pm
Lord Berners: Portsmouth Point
Arnold: Serenade for Small Orchestra
Stanford: Violin Concerto in D (1875) 2.55pm
Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird (World Premiere performance)
Delius: A Song before Sunrise
Milford: Symphony No.2 (World Premiere performance)
Sergei Levitin, violin
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor 3.55pm
Nigel Hess: Arise, my love
Nigel Hess: Live with me and be my love
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor 4.05pm
Chaminade: Suite No 1 for orchestra, Op 20
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra At Snape Maltings | 20191224 | | BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, in a programme of festive music featuring the ever-popular Overture to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel & Gretel; a gentle dash through the snow on a Sleigh Ride by Frederick Delius; Gustav Holst's setting of words by Walt Whitman – The Mystic Trumpeter, with soprano Susan Gritton as soloist; and Malcolm Arnold's Fantasia on Christmas Carols – The Holly & The Ivy. The main event, though, is music from Act II of Tchaikovsky's gloriously yule-packed ballet – The Nutcracker. There's also a chance to hear Madrid's RTVE Symphony Orchestra again in Bernstein's suite from his 1954 film score On the Waterfront. The programme closes with more Christmas music from a concert given in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including pieces by Alice Tegner, Hugo Alfven, Eriks Esenvalds, Erich Korngold, Jule Styne and Edward Pola…well, it is the most wonderful time of the year, after all… Presented by Hannah French. 2pm
Humperdinck: Overture – Hansel & Gretel
Delius: Sleigh Ride
Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter
Arnold arr. Christopher Palmer: The Holly & The Ivy (Fantasia on Christmas Carols)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act II (complete) Susan Gritton, soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor 3.20pm
Bernstein: On the Waterfront - suite RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid
Christian Lindberg, conductor 3.35pm
Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist: Jul, jul, stralande Jul (Yule, Yule, radiant Yule)
Alice Tegner: Betlehems stjarna (Star of Bethlehem)
Hugo Alfven: Julsang (Christmas Carol)
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
William Bergsma: Carol on Twelfth Night
Erich Korngold: Introduction from “Der Schneemann”
Jule Styne: Let it snow
Felix Mendelssohn: Weihnachten, Op.79 No.1
John Francis Wade: Dagen ar kommen (Adeste fidelis)
Edward Pola: It's the most wonderful time of the year Love Tronner, tenor
Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano/conductor Festive music by Humperdinck, Delius, Arnold, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Alfven and Esenvalds. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 3.35pm
Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist: Jul, jul, stralande Jul (Yule, Yule, radiant Yule)
Alice Tegner: Betlehems stjarna (Star of Bethlehem)
Hugo Alfven: Julsang (Christmas Carol)
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
William Bergsma: Carol on Twelfth Night
Erich Korngold: Introduction from “Der Schneemann ?
Jule Styne: Let it snow
Felix Mendelssohn: Weihnachten, Op.79 No.1
John Francis Wade: Dagen ar kommen (Adeste fidelis)
Edward Pola: It's the most wonderful time of the year |
| Bbc Concert Orchestra Live | 20190118 | | Live from Watford Colosseum, the BBC Concert Orchestra under conductor Anna-Maria Helsing peforms music by Susan Spain-Dunk, Albert Roussel and Augusta Holmès. The orchestra is also joined by violinist Jennifer Pike for a performance of Saint-Saens' Introduction et Rondo Capricioso. After the live concert we return to this week's focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Poulenc & Tchaikovsky. Presented by Fiona Talkington 2.00pm
Spain-Dunk - Stonehenge
Roussel - Petite Suite
Saint-Saëns - Introduction et Rondo Capricioso
Roussel - Le Festin d'Araignée
Holmès - Irlande, Symphonic Poem
Jennifer Pike (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)
Live from Watford Colosseum c.3.40pm
Poulenc – Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Tung-Chieh Chuang (conductor)
recorded at Glasgow City Halls c.4.05pm
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 “Pathetique”
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor)
recorded at Ayr Town Hall Presented by Tom McKinney Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Dubai Proms 2019 | 20190402 | | The BBC SO, BBC Singers and Dubai Opera Festival Chorus, conductor Richard Farnes, are joined by star soloists to perform Beethoven's 9th, 'Choral', Symphony at Dubai Opera. Soloist Nicolas Altstaedt joins the orchestra for Walton's Cello Concerto. The concert is presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Then, the afternoon continues with Georgia Mann introducing a work from the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers: Argentinian Julieta Szewach's stunning soundscape El Océano del Aliento Puro, for symphony orchestra, Pre-Columbian instruments, tape and four sopranos.
The afternoon closes with two upcoming CD releases from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.2pm - concert presented by Petroc Trelawny
Walton: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)
Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Le Brocq (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers
Dubai Opera Festival Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor) 3.55pm - presented by Georgia Mann
2018 International Rostrum of Composers
Julieta Szewach: El Océano del Aliento Puro 4.05pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Dong-Hyek Lim
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) 4.40pm
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo Richard Farnes conducts the BBC SO, BBC Singers and friends in Beethoven's Symphony No 9. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Music Day: Bbc Singers | 20190926 | | Music and Wellbeing - The BBC Singers perform a selection of repertoire focusing on the power of music as a tool to unlock memories for those living with dementia. BBC Singers soprano Alice Hulett tells us of her own experience of dementia in her family and introduces the BBC Music Memories website (https://musicmemories.bbcrewind.co.uk/). The BBC Singers also perform a selection of music inspired and written by composers and poets with a personal connection to dementia.
Followed by today's opera matinee double bill: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), to Schoenberg's own libretto, plotting his own life events and concluding that man continues to repeatedly make the same mistakes, and Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok's one-act expressionist opera based on the French literary tale La Barbe Bleue, from the Teatro Massimo, Palermo.Presented by Penny Gore One Equal Music – Ben Parry
Simple Gifts – Traditional
Take on Me – A-Ha
Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Elton John
At Last – Etta James
BBC Singers
Alexander L'Estrange (conductor) Errollyn Wallen: My Granny Sarah
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok (conductor) c.2.30 pm
Schoenberg: Accompanying Music to a Film Scene, Op. 34
Schoenberg: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), Op. 18
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz.48
A Man / Duke Bluebeard.... Gábor Bretz (baritone)
Judith.... Atala Schöck (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro Massimo di Palermo Orchestra and chorus
Gregory Vajda (conductor) Music and Wellbeing: focusing on music's power to unlock memories for those with dementia. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Music and Wellbeing - The BBC Singers perform a selection of repertoire focusing on the power of music as a tool to unlock memories for those suffering from dementia. BBC Singers soprano Alice Hulett tells us of her own experience of dementia in her family and introduces the BBC Music Memories website (https://musicmemories.bbcrewind.co.uk/). The BBC Singers also perform a selection of music inspired and written by composers and poets with a personal connection to dementia.
Followed by today's opera matinee double bill: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), to Schoenberg's own libretto, plotting his own life events and concluding that man continues to repeatedly make the same mistakes, and Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok's one-act expressionist opera based on the French literary tale La Barbe Bleue, from the Teatro Massimo, Palermo. Music and Wellbeing - focusing on music's power to unlock memories for dementia sufferers. |
| Bbc National Chorus And Orchestra Of Wales - Friday | 20180706 | | 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
James MacMillan:
Benedicimus Deum caeli
Lux aeterna
Te Deum (soloists: Linda Walsh, Emma Nelson, Lily Taylor, Verity-Belle Atkinson, Camille Chappuis)
Seven Angels
Llio Evans (soprano)
Matthew Farrell (countertenor)
Huw Llywelyn (tenor)
James Geidt (bass)
Sarah Hatch (percussion)
Lucy Wakeford (harp)
Robyn Grayling (cello)
Simon Bell (organ)
Adrian Partington (conductor) 3.05pm
Bartok: Divertimento for string orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) 3.31pm
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op.107
Andrei Ionita (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rebecca Miller (conductor) 4.00pm
Joseph Jongen: Symphonie concertante, Op.81
Thomas Trotter (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) 4.44pm
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Penny Gore with choral works by James MacMillan from the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra And Chorus Of Wales | 20201012 | | Adrian Partington, who's been Artistic Director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales for 21 years, conducts both Chorus and Orchestra in music by Stanford, Poulenc and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Presented by Penny Gore.Charles Villiers Stanford: At the Abbey Gate
Gareth Brynmore John (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.2.10pm
Frederick Septimus Kelly: Elegy for String Orchestra, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.2.25pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: Mass Via Victrix
Kiandra Howarth (soprano)
Jess Dandy (contralto)
Ruairi Bowen (tenor)
Gareth Brynmore John (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.3.30pm
Mark Bowden: We have found a better land
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.3.55pm
Fanny Mendelssohn: 19 chore for 4 voices
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.4pm
Francis Poulenc: Secheresses
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) Adrian Partington conducts the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales: music by Stanford Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180924 | | Georgia Mann presents a week of performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, beginning with a concert of string orchestra works by Elgar, Tippett and Richard Blackford from the Cheltenham Festival in July. The British theme continues with music by Parry, Kenneth Hesketh, Vaughan Williams and Ruth Gipps, who will feature throughout the week. 2.00pm
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, Op 47
Richard Blackford: Kalon
Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Correlli Strings of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 3.00pm
Parry: Symphony No 4 in E minor BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) 3.45pm
Kenneth Hesketh: In Ictu Oculi BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor) 4.10pm
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Atherton (conductor) 4.25pm
Ruth Gipps: Symphony No 4, Op 61 BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Martyn Brabbins with music by Elgar and Tippett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180925 | | Georgia Mann continues her week with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Alongside their recent performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony with conductor Dalia Stasevka at the Lichfield Festival, there will be some new releases and a whole host of music by female composers, including the week's featured artist Ruth Gipps. 2.00pm
Thomas Hyde: Les at Leisure - A Comedy Overture, Op 18
Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat major
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Amy Beach: Piano Concerto, Op 45 (ii Scherzo vivace)
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Danny Driver (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Dalia Stasevska (conductor) c.3.25pm
Clara Schumann: 3 Gemischte Chöre BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) Kenneth Hesketh: Of Time and Disillusionment BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor) c.4.00pm
Verdi: E'strano / Ah fors'e lui / Sempre libera (La Traviata) Xiaolin Zhuo (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrea Licata (conductor) Gipps: Symphony No 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) Musgrave: Phoenix Rising Sarah Jayne Porsmoguer (cor anglais)
Tim Thorpe (horn)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton (conductor) Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ben Gernon (conductor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Dalia Stasevska in Rachmaninov and Shostakovich Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20181207 | | Kate Molleson concludes a week of music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Starting with a concert of music inspired by light, which includes the world premiere of Paul Mealor's Third Symphony, 'Illumination', and following on to other music inspired by light. Plus a performance of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony with Xian Zhang, ahead of her trip to China with the Orchestra in two weeks' time. 2.00pm
Dove: Sunshine
Mathias: Helios
Norgard: Iris
Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise, Op 55
Mealor: Symphony No 3, ‘illumination' BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor) 3.30pm
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) 4.10pm
Lennox Berkeley: Voices of the Night BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor) 4.20pm
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) 4.40pm
Jenkins: Lament for Syria Kathryn Rudge (soprano)
Abel Salaocoe (cello)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Karl Jenkins (conductor) 4.50pm
Protheroe, arr. Quirk: Y Ty Heb Un Fflag Shan Cothi (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
John Quirk (conductor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Geoffrey Paterson perform a Paul Mealor world premiere Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20200622 | | Barber, Brahms and Beethoven in the opening concert of the 2019 Newbury Spring Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Recorded at the opening concert of last year's Newbury Spring Festival in St. Nicolas Church, music by Barber, Beethoven, and Brahms' Violin Concerto with soloist Alexander Sitkovetsky. As the festival was sadly cancelled this year, Penny Gore evokes the festival spirit to open this week of Afternoon Concert featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Followed by a brand new recording with conductor Kenneth Woods of music by the British composer Philip Sawyers, whose work has been described as “of instant appeal and enduring quality”. His Symphony No 4 was written in the unusual form of just three movements. To explain why, the composer simply said that "by the time the third movement was complete, there was nothing more to say". 2pm
Barber: Adagio for string orchestra
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, op. 77
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, conductor c.3.25pm
Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods, conductor |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20200624 | | Qigang Chen, Bent S\u00f8rensen and Thierry Escaich at the 2018 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras L'Éloignement, meaning remoteness or estrangement, a work for 34 strings, was composed on commission from the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. The composer Qigang Chen quotes a Chinese proverb which says: 'When a man is uprooted, he gains vital force. If he remains stationary, he cannot flourish. Renewal of his surroundings brings new opportunities; whatever changes there may be, large or small, are always experienced like a great rebirth.' In the form of a rondo with variations, L'Éloignement depicts separation, disorder, imagination, and yearning. The music is both happy and sad, nostalgic and exciting, all of which account for the conflicting moods of the departing one.
Bent Sørensen's three-movement Trumpet Concerto moves from the muted trumpet crawling in and out of the orchestra's running melodies and layering noise textures through a Venetian barcarole to a staggering finale in which the trumpet, at last, escapes. On hearing the concerto for the first time the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim remarked 'It reminds me of something I've never heard'! The orchestra's Principal Trumpet Philippe Schartz is soloist.
Composer, organist and improviser Thierry Escaich's Psalmos for orchestra displays recurring thematic elements in the style of a symphonic poem or concerto for orchestra. It's based on three Lutheran Chorales which, the composer says, are used as motivation without any real reference to their religious symbolism.
Vale of Glamorgan Festival focuses on highlighting the talents of living composers and was set up by the Welsh/Canadian composer John Metcalf in 1969. Presented by Penny Gore. Qigang Chen: L' Eloignement for string orchestra
Bent Sørensen: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Thierry Escaich: Psalmos for orchestra
Philippe Schartz, trumpet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch, conductor |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20200626 | | The worlds of fairy tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras From Duke Ellington's playful jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, via the blues and tomfoolery of Ravel's piano concerto with the orchestra's former Composer in Association Huw Watkins as soloist, to Prokofiev's fantastical retelling of Cinderella. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor David Danzmayr lead this afternoon's dance in a concert recorded in January at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall.
American Romantic George Chadwick wrote music full of orchestral colour and wide dynamic range. We'll hear that colour palate as Andrew Constantine conducts the orchestra in his symphonic ballad Tam O'Shanter. In a new CD recording, the BBC NOW help to put the name of Alexander Veprik back on the musical map. He was regarded as a star in the young Soviet generation of composers that included Shostakovich, but fell out of favour as a victim of Stalin's anti-Semitic policies and was sent to the Gulag. His 'Five Little Pieces' play with the Jewish melodies that accompanied Veprik, who was born near Odessa, throughout his life. Richard Wagner's love letter to Mathilde Wesendonck, whose poems he set whilst working on the opera Tristan und Isolde, is sung by soprano Jenufa Gleich.
Presented by Hannah French. 2pm
Ellington: Nutcracker suite after Tchaikovsky
Ravel: Concerto in G major for piano and orchestra
Prokofiev: Cinderella, op. 87 (highlights)
Huw Watkins, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Danzmayr, conductor 3.15pm
Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter - symphonic ballad
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine, conductor 3.35pm
Veprik: 5 Little pieces, op. 17
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph-Mathias Mueller, conductor 3.50pm
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Jenufa Gleich, soprano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Fabrice Bollon, conductor |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Beethoven And Weber | 20190225 | | Romantic masterpieces from the BBC National Orchestra Orchestra of Wales in a concert given at Prichard Jones Hall, Bangor, in November 2018. Soloist Robert Plane joins the orchestra for a performance of Weber's ground-breaking Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor. Plus there's music by Bartok and Bernard Rands. Presented by Tom Redmond 2.00pm
Beethoven – Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Weber - Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op.73
Baermann - Clarinet Quintet No.3, Op.23 (Adagio)
Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.55
Robert Plane (clarinet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor) c.3.30pm
Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mariss Janssons (conductor) c.3.50pm
Bernard Rands - Canti Del Sole
Stephen Chaundy (tenor)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton (conductor) Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Beethoven & Weber. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Mark Boden Premiere | 20190408 | | A varied selection of contemporary British music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from March 2018, including two World Premieres—Guto Puw's Camouflage and Mark Boden's Clarinet Concerto, featuring the Orchestra's principal clarinettist Robert Plane. The concert also includes Michael Berkeley's Concerto for Orchestra, a piece which was written while he was composer in association for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Guto Puw: Camouflage
Hoddinott: Variants for Orchestra, Op 47
Mark Boden: Clarinet Concerto
Michael Berkeley: Concerto for Orchestra
Robert Plane (clarinet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) c.3.25pm
Bonis: Trois femmes de legende
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jessica Cottis (Conductor) c.3.45pm
Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op 16
Steven Burnard (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conducting) c.4.30pm
Stravinsky: Agon - Ballet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor) Jac van Steen conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two world premieres. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Monday | 20180702 | | 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
Emily Howard: Magnetite
Britten: Violin Concerto, Op. 15
Emily Howard: Sphere
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 (From the New World)
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) 3.40pm
Sibelius: King Kristian II Suite, Op. 27
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (Conductor) Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 30
Alexander Ghindin (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Berman (conductor) Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Op. 64a
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Smetana, Dvorak And Beethoven | 20190412 | | This BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert from St. Georges in Bristol begins with two works of Bohemian origin, the scherzo from Smetana's Triumphal Symphony and Dvořák's Serenade for Strings, a work which the composer reportedly completed in just 12 days. The concert concludes with Beethoven's majestic Violin Concerto, featuring the New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko as soloist. Also music from Martinů and, this week's featured work in the Our Classical Century focus, Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Smetana: Scherzo (Triumphal Symphony, Op 6)
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61
Aleksey Semenenko (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jiří Rožeň (conductor) c.3.30pm
Martinů: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca, H 352
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) c.4.00pm
Our Classical Century:
Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem Op.112
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06rs2yc Jiri Rozen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from St George's Bristol. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - St David's Day | 20190301 | | Celebrate St. David's Day with the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales and music by Welsh composers including Alun Hoddinott, Grace Williams, Daniel Jones, Mervyn Burtch and William Mathias. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00pm
Hoddinott - Four Welsh Dances
Meirion Williams, arr. Jonathan Dove - Mai
Dilys Elwyn Edwards - Mae Hiraeth yn y Mor
Morfydd Owen - Threnody for the passing of Branwen
R.S. Hughes, arr. Idris Lewis - Arafa Don
Idris Lewis - Bugail Aberdyfi
Ivor Novello arr. Jeffrey Howard - My life belongs to you
Joseph Parry - Hywel a Blodwen
Gareth Glyn - Cadwyn
William Mathias - Let the people praise thee
E.T. Davis - Ynys y plant
Haydn Morris, arr. Jeffrey Howard - Hei Ho
Paul Mealor - Ubi Caritas
Karl Jenkins - Sarikiz (first movement)
Jeffery Howard - A Welsh Celebration
Rebecca Evans (Soprano)
Joshua Mills (Tenor)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (Conductor) c.3.30pm
Grace Williams - Sea Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) c.3.50pm
Daniel Jones - Symphony No.10
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) c.4.15pm
Mervyn Burtch - Psalm 21
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (Conductor) c.4.30pm
William Mathias - In Arcadia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (Conductor) Celebrate St David's Day with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Tuesday | 20180703 | | 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
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-Wheel Op. 109
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 25
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) 3.35pm
Gundmumsen-Homgreen: Tricolore IV
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Berman (conductor) Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor D.759 (Unfinished)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thomas Sondergard. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales - Wednesday | 20180704 | | 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
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Sibelius: Valse triste, Op 44 no 1
Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in E minor, Op 52
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nicholas Carter (conductor) 3.15pm
Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op 73
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| BBC National Orchestra of Wales (1/4) | 20210524 | | Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Haydn, Berg and Shostakovich, plus music from the orchestra's new CD of London-born conductor, pianist and composer Cipriani Potter. Plus, throughout this week the BBC Singers celebrate the 70th birthday of composer Cecilia McDowall with new recordings of her work. Presented by Penny Gore. Including: c.2.10pm
Haydn: Symphony No.90 in C major c.2.35pm
Berg: Three pieces from Lyric Suite c.2.50pm
Shostakovich, arr. Barshai: Symphony for strings and wind, Op.73a BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor) c.3.30pm
Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers in music by Cecilia McDowall, in celebration of the composer's 70th birthday. Ryan Bancroft conducts music by Haydn, Berg and Shostakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| BBC National Orchestra of Wales (2/4) | 20210525 | | Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales music by Hannah Kendall and George Walker, and Pavel Kolesnikov joins the orchestra for Beethoven's second piano concerto. The BBC Singers continue their celebration of Cecilia McDowall 70th birthday. Presented by Penny Gore. Including: c.2.10pm
Hannah Kendall: Verdala c.2.15pm
Beethoven: Piano concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19
Pavel Kolesniikov (piano) c.2.45pm
George Walker: Lyric for Strings c.2.50pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor) c.3.55pm
The BBC Singers and conductor Owain Park with new recordings of music by Cecilia McDowall. Joshua Weilerstein conducts music by Hannah Kendall, George Walker and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| BBC National Orchestra of Wales (3/4) | 20210526 | | Maxime Tortelier conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Poulenc and the Welsh composer Carlijn Metselaar, and Alice Neary performs Honegger's Cello Concerto. Rachel Podger leads the orchestra in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante, plus music by Cecilia McDowall from the BBC Singers. Presented by Penny Gore. Including: 2.00pm
Carlijn Metselaar: Time for Your Walk c.2.10pm
Honegger: Cello Concerto
Alice Neary (cello) c.2.30pm
Poulenc: Sinfonietta BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Maxime Tortelier (conductor) c.2.55pm
The BBC Singers perform music by Cecilia McDowall to celebrate her 70th birthday. c.3.05pm
Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rachel Podger (violin/director) Maxime Tortelier conducts music by Poulenc, Honegger and Welsh composer Carlijn Metselaar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| BBC National Orchestra of Wales (4/4) | 20210528 | | Jonathan James conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Haydn's Symphony No.103, and Ryan Bancroft leads them in music by Caroline Shaw, and Wolfgang Rihm's Gesungene Zeit with violinist Chloe Hanslip. Plus the BBC Singers conclude this week's 70th birthday celebrations for Cecilia McDowall. Presented by Penny Gore. Including: c.2.15pm
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte c.2.30pm
Wolfgang Rihm: Gesungene Zeit
Chloe Hanslip (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor) c.2.50pm
Haydn: Symphony No.103 in E flat "Drumroll"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan James (conductor) c.3.50pm
The BBC Singers and conductor Owain Park with music by Cecilia McDowall, including the UK Premiere recording of her work De Profundis. Ryan Bancroft and Jonathan James conduct music by Haydn, Caroline Shaw and Wolfgang Rihm. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In China | 20190226 | | From their recent tour to China, Xian Zhang conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from Shenzhen, including music by Glinka, Liszt & Dvorak. Plus there are performances of Bartok, Beethoven, Suk and Kate Whitley from back home in Cardiff. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00pm
Glinka – Overture: Ruslan & Ludmila
Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat major
Dvorak - Symphony No.8 in G major
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5
Geng Zhimaio (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) c.3.30pm
Bartok - Hungarian Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tommy Andersson (conductor) c.3.45pm
Suk - Fantastic Scherzo
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor) c.4.00pm
Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Joseph Swenson (conductor) c.4.15pm
Kate Whitley - Speak Out
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) c.4.25pm
Bridge - Mid of Night
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor) Xian Zhang conducts the BBC NOW in music by Glinka, Liszt and Dvorak. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Mahler | 20190409 | | Two of Mahler's most emotionally-charged works from a recent concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. New Generation Artist Catriona Morison sings the 5 lieder which Mahler set to the Romantic poetry of Friedrich Rückert, before the heart-wrenching Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony, the only section left complete before the composer's death. Plus, there's music by Price, Ben Haim, Parry, Elgar and Schmitt. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10)
Catriona Morison (Mezzo-Soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (Conductor) c.2.45pm
Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Daniel Blendulf (conductor) c.3.00 pm
Ben Haim: Evocation (Yizkor)
Itamar Zorman (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Philippe Bach (conductor) c.3.20pm
Parry: Proserpine
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) c.3.30pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op 55
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor) c.4.30pm
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op 50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor) Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two pieces by Mahler. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Hoddinott Hall | 20180928 | | As part of BBC Music Day, Kate Molleson presents a live performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in which conductor Carlos Miguel-Prieto showcases three composers from his native Mexico: Silvestre Revueltas, Arturo Marquez and Jose Pablo Moncayo. They are joined by mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz for Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, and New Generation Artist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad for Walton's Viola Concerto. A feature on the BBC Singers' work with workplace choirs in Birmingham follows the concert, along with new recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including the last this week from our featured artist, Ruth Gipps. 2.00pm
Falla: El amor brujo (suite)
Walton: Viola Concerto 2.55 Interval Music Revueltas: Sensemaya
Marquez: Danzon No 2
Moncayo: Huapango Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Eivind Holstmark Ringstad (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Carlos Miguel-Prieto (conductor) Continues with: Ben-Haim: Violin Concerto Itamar Zorman (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Philippe Bach (cond) Gipps: Song for Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) Thea Musgrave: Loch Ness Daniel Trodden (tuba)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton (conductor) BBC NOW and Carlos Miguel-Prieto live, with music by de Falla, Marquez and Walton Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Performs Hoddinott, Lewis And Panufnik | 20190227 | | Holly Mathieson conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Alun Hoddinott, Sarah Lianne Lewis and Andrzej Panufnik in a concert recorded earlier this year in Cardiff. Plus performances of pieces by Ruth Gipps & James MacMillan. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00pm
Alun Hoddinott – Taliesin
Sarah Lianne Lewis - Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
Andrzej Panufnik - Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 3)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Holly Mathieson (Conductor) c.3.00pm
Ruth Gipps - Knight in Armour
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) c.3.10pm
James MacMillan - Te Deum
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) Holly Mathieson conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Hoddinott and Panufnik. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Moritz Gnann, Karl Jenkins, Xian Zhang | 20181203 | | Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Newtown, under the direction of Moritz Gnann, in which Young Musician of the Year runner-up Charlie Lovell-Jones performs Vaughan-Williams' The Lark Ascending alongside some other highly regarded works from great composers. The afternoon then continues with other works which have become popular favourites from Karl Jenkins, Beethoven and John Williams. 2.00pm
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, Op 22 No 2
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Stravinsky: Ronde des princess; Infernal Dance; Berceuse; Finale (The Firebird Suite) Charlie Lovell-Jones (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Moritz Gnann (conductor) 3.15pm
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Karl Jenkins (conductor) 4.20pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) Works by Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Stravinsky, Jenkins and Beethoven Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Stephen Isserlis, Amatis Trio | 20181204 | | Fiona Talkington continues her week with the BBC National orchestra of Wales. Alongside a recent performance from Marlborough School which includes music which focuses on the centenary of the end of the First World War, there will be more music, including Bridge's Oratio (Concerto Elegiaco) with Steven Isserlis as cello soloist, Jenkins' For the Fallen, with Michael Sheen as narrator, and Delius Requiem with soprano Elizabeth Watts and baritone Mark Stone, which plays tribute to victims of the conflict. Also, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4, conducted by Xian Zhang. 2.00pm
Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses (Overture)
Beethoven: Concerto in C major for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra
Kelly: Elegy for strings in Memoriam Rupert Brooke Amatis Trio
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) 3.00pm
Bridge: Oration (Concerto Elegiaco) Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor) 3.30pm Jenkins: For the Fallen Michael Sheen (narrator)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Karl Jenkins (conductor) 3.40pm
Delius: Requiem Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Mark Stone (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) 4.15pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) The BBC NOW performs works by Beethoven, Kelly, Bridge, Jenkins, Delius and Tchaikovsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Brahms's A German Requiem | 20190716 | | Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Stravinsky: Funeral Song Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Jacques Ibrailo (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
(Given in the BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
28/06/19) Grace Williams: Sea Sketches BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
(Given in the Royal Albert Hall,
04/09/08) Ravel: Sheherazade Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
(Given in St. David's Hall, Cardiff
13/10/16) Gunning: Symphony No 2
National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods (conductor) Korngold Cello Concerto
Rafael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Concerts from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including Brahms's A German Requiem. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
(Given in St. David's Hall, Cardiff
13/10/16) |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: De Falla, Ravel, Debussy | 20190715 | | Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a Spanish-flavoured programme and a celebration of Harrison Birtwistle's birthday. De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain Ravel: Piano concerto in D major (for the left hand) de Falla: Three Cornered Hat: Suite No. 1 Debussy: Images: No. 2 Iberia Angela Hewitt, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl,conductor (Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on
08/02/19) Birtwistle: Endless Parade Phillippe Schartz, trumpet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, conductor
(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
02/12/08) Holst: Egdon Heath BBC National Orchestra of Wales
James Judd (conductor) Weir: Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) Bloch Cello Concerto
Rafael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lukasz Borowicz, conductor Kate Molleson introduces concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Gershwin And Elgar | 20190717 | | Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Gershwin: Piano concerto in F major Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour Elgar: Enigma Variations Prokofiev: March in B flat major, Op.99 Joanna MacGregor (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elim Chan (conductor)
(Recorded in Cheltenham Town Hall,
17/03/19) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Live From Hoddinott Hall | 20190927 | | In our first live afternoon concert of the season from Hoddinott Hall, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales opens with Debussy's beautiful symphonic poem Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune followed by two works that will be new to audiences: the UK premiere of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto, written for and dedicated to the orchestra's former Principal Cor Anglais Celia Craig, and a new suite that brings together the wealth of magnificent orchestral music from Wagner's opera Parsifal, under the baton of its arranger, Andrew Gourlay. Plus a new recording of 'Clytemnestra' by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel whose music seeks to give women a voice, here adapting Aeschylus' work from Clytemnestra's viewpoint, and George Whitefield Chadwick's Tam O'Shanter, a work of vivid musical story-telling based on the tale by Robert Burns. Presented by Penny Gore Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi-d'un faune
Weir: Oboe Concerto (UK Premiere)
Wagner, arr. Gourlay: Parsifal Suite
Celia Craig (oboe)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Gourlay (conductor) c.3.40pm
Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) c.4pm
Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine (conductor) Photo of Judith Weir: B Ealovega UK Premieres of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto and a new suite from Wagner's opera Parsifal. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Rachmaninov And Schubert | 20190719 | | Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major (‘Great') Boris Giltburg (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
12/04/19) Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Dvorak Hall, Prague Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez | 20190924 | | BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Kensho Watanabe to play Joaquin Rodrigo's beautiful classic for guitar and orchestra: Concierto de Aranjuez. The blind composer took inspiration from the fountains and gardens of the palace of Aranjuez on the shore of River Tagus, near Madrid and it's the centrepiece for a concert which also includes Tchaikovsky's skilful evocation of the notion of fate in his fifth symphony.
Plus Romanian pianist Sergiu Tuhutziu plays a virtuosic concerto by his compatriot Calin Huma, a heart-rending epitaph by Andrzej Panufnik born 105 years ago today, and the 2011 premiere recording of Christopher Painter's re-working of the last movement of his 3rd symphony "Fire in the Snow".Presented by Penny Gore Borodin Prince Igor: Overture
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Rodriguez La Cumparsita - tango, arr. Romero for guitar solo
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64
Thibaut Garcia (guitar)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kensho Watanabe (conductor) c.3.30pm
Calin Huma: Piano Concerto
Sergiu Tuhutziu (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christopher Petrie (conductor) c.3.50pm
Andrzej Panufnik: Katyn Epitaph
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) c.4pm
Elgar: Falstaff
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine (conductor) c.4.30pm
Christopher Painter: …the brightness of snow
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia plays Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: St Davids Cathedral Festival | 20190925 | | Poulenc's Organ Concerto, Mathias's Threnos and Saint‐Saëns's mighty Third Symphony from St Davids Cathedral Festival with organist David Briggs under the baton of Daniel Blendulf Presented by Penny Gore Mathias: Threnos for string orchestra
Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op.78 'Organ Symphony'
David Briggs (Organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Daniel Blendulf (conductor) Poulenc and Saint\u2010Saens from the St Davids Cathedral Festival with organist David Briggs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Vale Of Glamorgan Festival | 20190923 | | A feast of treats, this concert combines music by giants of contemporary music, including Steve Reich and Peteris Vasks, with incredible new talent emerging from Wales today. Recorded at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival with conductor Ryan Bancroft, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs one of the world's first performances of Steve Reich's Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, and the world premiere of a new arrangement of John Metcalf's Polly Garter Aria from his critically acclaimed opera Under Milk Wood. There are moments of quiet meditation, with Lonely Angel by Peteris Vasks reflecting the vision of an angel gazing down on the world, concerned and hopeful at the same time and Dobrinka Tabakova's Organum Light, a transcendentally beautiful meditation based on a mediaeval chant; plus plenty of fun, with Graham Fitkin's celebratory work Metal – for orchestra and untuned scaffolding – ending the concert with a bang.
We've a chance to hear Ryan Bancroft conducting very different repertoire next; Sibelius' 5th symphony with its extraordinary finale, and harpist Hannah Stone joins the orchestra at the North Wales International Music Festival at St Asaph Cathedral to premiere Anglesey composer Gareth Glyn's piece Amaterasu. Specially commissioned by the festival it's a musical depiction of the story of Amaterasu, the Japanese Shinto religion's divinity of light. Having been mistreated by her volatile brother Susanowo (depicted by solo trombone - the orchestra's Principal Trombone Donal Bannister) Amaterasu retreats into a cave and the whole world is plunged into darkness. To lure her out the other gods hold a party outside and her curiosity gets the better of her. When she emerges the world is flooded with light again.Presented by Penny Gore Dobrinka Tabakova: Organum Light
Peteris Vasks: Vientuļais eņģelis (Lonely Angel)
Steve Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018)
Benjamin Wallace: Five Gifts for an old friend
Claire Victoria Roberts: Blue Lab
Mark David Boden: Descent (World Premiere - Festival Commission)
David Lang: Simple Song #3 (2015)
John Metcalf: Polly Garter's Aria from Under Milk Wood
Graham Fitkin: Metal (1995)
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Elizabeth Donovan (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor) c.3.25pm
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor) c.4pm
Gareth Glyn: Amaterasu
Hannah Stone (harp)
Donal Bannister (trombone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Gavin Sutherland (conductor) c.4.15pm
Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor) A feast of treats, from contemporary music giants Reich and Vasks to young Welsh talent. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Now At The Proms | 20200902 | | BBC Orchestras at the Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at last year's Proms.
The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Eulenspiegel – Germany's beloved folk-hero – introduce a concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra. Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in a concert which pairs Strauss's lively tone-poem with Brahms's turbulent Symphony No. 1 – the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven'. And trumpeters Håkan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by Swedish composer Tobias Broström.Presented by Georgia Mann. From 25 July 2019 Prom 9
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Tobias Broström: Nigredo (concerto for two trumpets – UK premiere)
with Jeroen Berwaerts; Håkan Hardenberger (trumpets)
Brahms: Symphony No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz (conductor) The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Brahms, Richard Strauss and Tobias Brostr\u00f6m. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Performing Groups Round Up Of The Year | 20191216 | | This week Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year, and we go live to Maida Vale, Media City, and Temple Church for some special festive performances. 2pm
Live from Maida Vale studios The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Bob Chilcott perform the six shortlisted carols in this year's BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition. Hundreds of amateur composers enter the annual competition, and this year entrants have set Go to the Child by the Pakistani-British poet Imtiaz Dharker. Alongside the six settings are solo works for the festive period. Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A new work is come on hand
Michael Head: Star Candles
Vladimir Rebikov: Yolka (The Christmas Tree) Op. 21: Waltz
Robert Quinney: Sing Lullaby
Poulenc: Nous voulons une petite soeur
David Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day 3pm
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 in F major Opus 102
Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major Martin James Bartlett, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Performing Groups Round Up Of The Year | 20191217 | | Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year: starting today with a concert featuring prolific author Alexander McCall Smith.
His highly successful series 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' sold over twenty million copies in the English language alone, and his books have become bestsellers throughout the world. For one afternoon only, McCall Smith joins forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to bring to life much- loved characters from Botswana, Scotland and Italy, wrapped around an eclectic array of his favourite music to guarantee a unique and magical experience.Rossini: Overture The Italian Girl in Algiers
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds) No 3 - La Colomba
Maxwell-Davies: Farewell to Stromness
Walton: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (Henry V)
Mozart: Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Malcolm Arnold: Scottish Dance No 1
John Barry: Out of Africa (Main Theme)
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano, No 3 - La Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus)
Malcolm Arnold: Beckus the Dandipratt Alexander McCall Smith (narrator)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Parry (conductor) 3.45pm Ethel Smyth: Mass in D major Susanna Hurrell, soprano
Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Duncan Rock, baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Performing Groups Round Up Of The Year | 20191220 | | Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. The afternoon begins with the BBC Singers live from London's historic Temple Church with a festive programme of contemporary Christmas carols, conducted by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and introduced by Ian Skelly. The concert includes the world premiere of the Lebanese-French composer Naji Hakim's spectacular setting of Veni, veni, Emmanuel. Then we head north with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu's Requiem, the work that launched his international career in 1957, and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony which was written in exile in Lucerne in the mid-thirties. 2pm Carl Rutti: My Dancing Day
Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel
Christopher Robinson: Rejoice and be merry
Naji Hakim: Veni, veni Emmanuel
Roderick Williams: Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol
Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn
Fredrik Sixten: Mary's Lullaby
James MacMillan: Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva
Francis Pott: Improvisation on Adeste, Fideles
Richard Lloyd: Love came down at Christmas
Roxanna Panufnik: Jesus Christ is Born (Angels Sing)
James Burton: Balulalow
Matthew Martin: Novo profusi gaudio
Trad arr Cleobury: Quittez, pasteurs
Betty Roe: The Holly and the Ivy
Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem
Trad arr. Nicholson: The Lord of the Dance BBC Singers
Ashley Grote, organ
Sofi Jeannin, conductor c.3.10pm Takemitsu : Requiem for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor Opus 44
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor The BBC Singers with contemporary Christmas Carols, live from Temple Church. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Performing Groups Round-up Of The Year | 20191216 | | |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20181002 | | Birds on the wing open today's Afternoon Concert, with the BBC Philharmonic and presenter Tom McKinney - works by Respighi, Sibelius and Rautavaara, and two UK premieres with Andrea Tarrodi's Birds of Paradise II and Minna Leinonen's Kaarne (The Raven). There's also the second of this week's Saint-Saens piano concertos with soloist Louis Lortie, and visits to Italy with Berlioz and Foulds, Then, the orchestra also give the UK premiere of Thea Musgrave's Songs for Spring with baritone Ashley Riches and conductor Clarke Rundell, and the afternoon closes with Elgar's epic First Symphony, premiered in Manchester in 1908 and which conductor Arthur Nikisch dubbed “the Fifth of Brahms”. 2pm
Respighi Suite: The Birds
Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise II (ukp)
Sibelius: Scene with cranes
Minna Leinonen: Kaarne (The Raven)(ukp)
Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus
BBC Philharmonic
Anna- Maria Helsing (conductor) c.3pm
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano) c. 3.25pm
Berlioz Overture, Roman Carnival
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Litton (conductor) c. 3.35pm
Foulds Sicilian Aubade
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3,40pm
Thea Musgrave Songs for Spring (ukp)
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Ashley Riches (baritone) c.3.55pm
Elgar Symphony No 1
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Saint-Saens, Musgrave and Elgar Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190128 | | Music by Rachmaninov, Bach, Arriaga, Dove & LeFanu plus Holst's Planets Suite in live performances by the BBC Philharmonic, presented by Tom Redmond Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3
Holst: The Planets
Manchester Chamber Choir (ladies' voices)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Bach: Lobet den Herrn (BWV 230)
Manchester Chamber Choir
Jessica Hayes (cello)
Darius Battiwalla (chamber organ)
Justin Doyle (conductor) Arriaga: Los esclavos felices, Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor) Nicola Lefanu: Threnody
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor) Jonathan Dove: Gaia theory
BBC Philharmonic
Timothy Redmond (conductor) Music by Rachmaninov, Holst, Arriaga, Dove and LeFanu performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Music by Rachmaninov, Bach, Arriaga, Dove & LeFanu plus Holst's Planets Suite in live performances by the BBC Philharmonic, presented by Tom McKinney |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190129 | | Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts and live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Music today includes Rachmaninov Symphony no.2 and Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture. Bartók Violin: Concerto No 2
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2
Kristóf Baráti (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
Recorded in November last year in Bucharest Arriaga: Cantata, Herminie
Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) Berlioz: Overture, Roman Carnival
BBC Philharmonic
Rory Macdonald (conductor) Copland Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) Tom Redmond presents music by Rachmaninov and Bartok in recordings by the BBC Philharmonic Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts and live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Music today includes Rachmaninov Symphony no.2 and Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture. Rachmaninov and Bartok performed by the BBC Philharmonic. |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190201 | | Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniţă plays Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with the BBC Philharmonic plus Enescu Romanian Rhapsody and Shostakovich Symphony no.9. Presented by Tom Redmond Stephan: Music for orchestra (1912)
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C
Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No 9
Andrei Ioniţă (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann (conductor) Alwyn: They flew alone (suite from the film music)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor) McCabe: Joybox
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor) Ginastera: Piano Concerto No 1
Xiayin Wang (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) Holst A Moorside Suite
BBC Philharmonic (strings)
Andrew Davis (conductor) Arriaga: Symphony
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita plays Haydn with the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniţă plays Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with the BBC Philharmonic plus Enescu Romanian Rhapsody and Shostakovich Symphony no.9. Presented by Tom McKinney |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190325 | | Today's concert, an all-English programme featuring Walton, Elgar and Britten recorded by the BBC Philharmonic in Bilbao earlier this month. It's presented by Tom McKinney. Walton Overture, Scapino Elgar In the South Britten Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes' BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Recorded. March 2 2019 in Bilbao, Spain David Matthews Symphony No 8 BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen
Rec. December 6 2017 at MediaCityUK, Salford
17NA1814NB0 Holst A Winter Idyll BBC Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 3 BBC Philharmonic / Moritz Gnann / Louis Lortie (piano)
Rec. February 13 2019 at MediaCityUK, Salford Jonathan Dove Airport Scenes (first broadcast) BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond
Rec. September 7 2018 at MediaCityUK, Salford Ginastera Panambi BBC Philharmonic/ Juanjo Mena / Manchester Chamber Choir
Rec.March 23 2016 in MediaCityUK, Salford An all-English programme with works by Walton, Elgar and Britten presented by Tom McKinney Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190329 | | Concluding a week of great performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features music by Elgar (Sevillana and Cockaigne Overture) and Walton (Viola Concerto). Presented by Tom McKinney Elgar Sevillana Walton Viola Concerto Elgar Overture, Cockaigne BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena
Rec. March 3 2019 in Bilbao, Spain Montsalvatge Partita Britten Violin Concerto BBC Philharmonic / Edward Gardner / Tasmin Little (violin) Scott Symphony No 4 BBC Philharmonic / Martyn Brabbins Bax Symphony No 7 BBC Philharmonic / Vernon Handley Elgar, Walton and Britten given by the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190603 | | with Elizabeth Alker. Today's concert: 2pm:
Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor
Elgar Symphony No 1
BBC Philharmonic / Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) / Bartholomew Lafollette (cello) c.3.30pm:
David Matthews Sinfonia
BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen (conductor) c.3.40pm:
Dukas Polyeucte
BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) c.3.55pm:
Sibelius Symphony No 6
BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor) c.4.25pm:
Gerard Schurmann Claretta (suite from the film score)
BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor) Elizabeth Alker presents an afternoon of music performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190604 | | With Elizabeth Alker. Today's concert: 2pm:
Mendelssohn Overture, Ruy Blas
Edward Cowie Clarinet Concerto no 3 (Ruskin's Dreams)
Tchaikovsky Symphony no 6 (Pathètique)
BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Gourlay (conductor) / Julian Bliss (clarinet) c.3.30pm:
Holst Indra
BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor) c.3.45pm:
Thomas Adès Three Studies from Couperin
BBC Philharmonic / Clemens Schuldt (conductor) c.4pm:
Schubert Symphony no 9 (Great)
BBC Philharmonic / Clemens Schuldt (conductor) Elizabeth Alker presents more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190607 | | Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. 2pm:
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Sibelius; Violin Concerto in D minor
Istvan Vardai (cello)
Ning Feng (violin)
BBC Philharmonic and string students of the Royal Northern College of Music
Simone Young (conductor) c.3.35pm:
Copland; Quiet City
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.3.45pm:
Martinů; Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic | 20190618 | | With Tom McKinney. Today's Concert: 2pm:
Haydn Symphony no 49 (La Passione)
Schumann Cello Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony no 6
BBC Philharmonic / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) / Andrei Ionita (cello) c.3.15pm:
Stravinsky Symphony in C
BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor) c.3.45pm:
Ginastera Variaciones concertantes
BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.4.10pm:
Jonathan Dove The Ringing Isle
BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond (conductor) Tom McKinney introduces concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic - Coates, Weill And Mozart | 20170222 | | Catriona Young continues her week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today's programme includes Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto directed from the violin by John Storgards, and Mozart's G major Flute Concerto with soloist Adam Walker. Plus Afternoon on 3's British Music Season continues with a performance of Coates's fantasy, Cinderella. 2pm
Coates: Cinderella - fantasy
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) Weill: Concerto for violin and wind ensemble, Op.12
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (violin/director) c.2.45pm
Mozart: Flute Concerto in G major, K313
Adam Walker (flute)
BBC Philharmonic
Jamie Phillips (conductor) Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Coates, Weill and Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic - Live | 20181212 | | Continuing our week of live performances every day from the BBC Orchestras, Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic performing Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour & excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake live from MediaCityUK. Presented by Stuart Flinders. Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel: Prelude to Act I
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts) BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor Ben Gernon conducts music by Humperdinck, Clyne and Tchaikovsky live from MediaCityUK. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic - Prokofiev, Ravel And Vaughan Williams | 20170224 | | Catriona Young rounds off her week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Wilson has been featuring over this week, and he performs music by Haydn Wood and Vaughan Williams as part of Afternoon on 3's British Music Season. Plus Colin Matthews's orchestration of four Preludes by Debussy, and Prokofiev's Symphony No.7. 2pm
Sibelius: The Bard, Op.64
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor) Prokofiev: Symphony No 7 in C sharp minor
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor) c.2.40pm
Debussy orch. Colin Matthews: Four Preludes
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor) Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) c.3.20pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) Haydn Wood: London Landmarks
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor). BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel, Vaughan Williams and Haydn Wood. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic In Manchester | 20200120 | | The beginning of a week of concerts and music featuring the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England. Concert of the Day:
Rec. April 13 2019 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Bax November Woods Walton Violin Concerto
James Ehnes, violin Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor Dvořák The Wood Dove
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen, conductor Presented by Elizabeth Alker Performances by the BBC's north of England orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic In Zagreb | 20200121 | | This week we are featuring concerts and recordings by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra based in the north of England. Concert of the Day
Rec. October 12 2019 at Lisinski Hall, Zagreb Britten:Simple Symphony
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D
Bruckner Symphony No 6
Kian Soltani, cello
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor Mozart: Vado, ma dove? (K583)
Sally Matthews (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No 3
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor) Coates The Jester at the Wedding, Suite
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) Presented by Elizabeth Alker Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live | 20190130 | | Tom Redmond presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic of music by Frederic Cowan, Dorothy Howell, Vaughan Williams and Bliss. Arnell: Overture, The New Age
Cowen: Reverie
Fogg: Merok
Howell: Lamia
Vaughan Williams: Harnham Down
Goossens: By the tarn
Bliss: Mêlée Fantasque BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor) Tom Redmond presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic of music by Frederic Cowan, Dorothy Howell, Vaughan Williams and Bliss. Tom McKinney presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic. |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live | 20190206 | | Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic live in a concert from MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring works by Emily Howard, Edward Cowie and Richard Rodney Bennett John Ruskin was born 200 hundred years ago this week and the piece by Edward Cowie celebrates the great art critic of the Victorian era who famously argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature". Edward Cowie, as well as being a composer has also exhibited internationally as a painter Emily Howard: Magnetite
Edward Cowie: Clarinet Concerto No 3 (Ruskin's Dreams - Coniston)
Richard Rodney Bennett: Partita
Julian Bliss (Clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor) Penny Gore presents the rest of the afternoon from London BBC Philharmonic live in works by Emily Howard, Edward Cowie and Richard Rodney Bennett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live | 20191113 | | John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Eric Coates live from MediaCityUK. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Eric Coates:
London Bridge: March
Selfish Giant: Phantasy
Wood Nymphs: Concert Waltz
For Your Delight: Serenade
Lazy Night: Valse Roance
The Enchanted Garden
Summer Days: Suite BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Eric Coates, live from MediaCityUK. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live | 20200114 | | Tom McKinney presents a live concert from MediaCityUK, in which John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in two pieces by Vaughan Williams. They begin with his folksong-inspired tone poem In the Fen Country and move on to his often violent-sounding Sixth Symphony, written in the years immediately after the Second World War. Following that, we join the BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin for a concert featuring choral arrangements of some orchestral favourites under the splendour of historic sailing ship Cutty Sark. There's music by Elgar, Grainger, Barber and Byrd, among others There's also another visit to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, with an orchestral piece written by the young Slovenian composer Petra Strahovnik in 2018. The programme ends with another violin concerto from the instrument of Jack Liebeck - this time, Brahms's - with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay. Presented by Penny Gore. 2pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor 3.00pm
Edward Elgar: Lux Aeterna
William Walton (arr. Bob Chilcott): Touch her soft lips, and part
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
Percy Grainger: The Sussex Mummers' Carol
Sven-David Sandström: Hear my prayer
Jan Sandström: Det är en ros utsprungen
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams: Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined
Douglas Guest: (They shall grow not old)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Paul Drayton): The Lark Ascending Elodie Chousmer-Howells, violin
The BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor 3.50pm
Petra Strahovnik: Prana
RTV Symphony Orchestra, Ljubljana
Rossen Milanov, conductor 4.00pm
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major
Jack Liebeck, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay, conductor The BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams and the BBC Singers perform on the Cutty Sark. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live At Mediacityuk In Salford | 20190619 | | Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk In Salford | 20160921 | | Live from MediaCityUK, the BBC Philharmonic in music by Marquez, Ginastera and Villa-Lobos Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford | 20170215 | | The BBC Philharmonic - Live from MediaCityUK, Salford, presented by Tom Redmond George Antheil - radical American composer and a performing pianist, once took to the stage armed with a revolver concealed under his concert dress for a concert tour of 1930s Germany - as a "degenerate" artist he wanted to defend himself if any Nazis stormed the stage. Hindemith also felt the disapproval of the Nazi party. He wrote his symphony based on themes from his opera "Mathis der Maler" (Mathis the Painter) for Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic to perform in 1934, but both Furtwängler and Hindemith faced official censure as Hindemith was already considered a composer of "degenerate" music - and the message of the opera was that the artist must follow his own conscience and the the instruction of his political masters. By the 1960s, Shostakovich was past the worst of what the Soviet State could throw at him, so it seems a pity that his Second Cello Concerto should have caused him so many problems musically. He struggled with the first movement, which had been originally destined as a new symphony, and threw out a completed final movement and started again from scratch. Live BBC Philharmonic 2pm
Antheil
Serenade No 1 for strings [1948] Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No 2 in G major, Op126
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor). Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs Antheil, Shostakovich and Hindemith. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford | 20171027 | | 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
Delius: Eventyr
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
Sibelius: King Christian II Suite Op.27
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Rory Macdonald (conductor) c.3.25pm
Back to the studio with Jonathan Swain Rachel Portman: Endangered
Edwin Roxburgh: Concerto for Piano and Winds
Sally Beamish: Diodati (UK premiere)
Gordon Crosse: Symphony No. 3 "Between Despair and Dawn" (world premiere)
Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic perform live from Salford, plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford | 20190605 | | Elizabeth Alker introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic in their home at MediaCity. 2pm:
Piers Hellawell Wild Flow
Shostakovich Violin Concerto no 2 in C sharp minor
BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen (conductor) / Aleksey Semenenko (violin) c.2.50pm:
Arensky Symphony no 2 in A major
BBC Philharmonic / Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Elizabeth Alker introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20160511 | | Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic in Elgar: Falstaff and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20160525 | | A live concert of French music with the BBC Philharmonic under Lorenzo Viotti. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20180919 | | 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
Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony no. 5
Judith Weir: I Give You The End Of A Golden String
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor 1510
Britten: Four Sea interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Silvestrov and Weir Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20180926 | | 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
Dvorak: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op 48
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6), H 343 Ashley Riches (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic
Jiri Rozen (conductor) Continues: c.1520
Gipps: Knight in Armour, Op 8 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor) BBC Philharmonic and Jiri Rozen live in Dvorak, Mahler and Martinu Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20181106 | | Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, conductor Douglas Boyd and the BBC Philharmonic perform Britten's thrilling setting of poems by Rimbaud, Les Illuminations with tenor Robin Tritschler. This is paired with Mozart's Serenade in B flat (K 361) often referred to as the Gran Partita. The live concert is presented by Tom Redmond. After this, Tom continues his survey this week of Tippett's symphonic works with the composer's Symphony No. 3 for soprano and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Brabbins and soloist Rachel Nicholls. This eclectic works is blues-influenced and includes quotations from Beethoven, suggesting that Tippett was challenging Beethoven's world-view. 2.00 pm
Britten: Les Illuminations
Mozart: Serenade in B flat (K 361)
Robin Tritschler, tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Douglas Boyd, conductor c. 3.20 pm
Tippett: Symphony No. 3
Rachel Nicholls, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c. 4.20 pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor c. 4.40 pm
Helen Grime: Snow from 2 Eardley Pictures
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor The BBC Philharmonic and Douglas Boyd, live from Salford, perform Britten and Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford | 20190410 | | Live from Media City in Salford, John Wilson conducts a concert of twentieth-century English music. We begin with the ballet music from Gustav Holst's comic opera The Perfect Fool which is danced by Spirits of Earth, Water and Fire, before hearing John Ireland's tone poem The Forgotten Rite which was inspired by the pagan ancient sites of Jersey. Next up is a selection from William Walton's Facade featuring yodelling, a tango and a tarantella, and the concert concludes with Arnold Bax's shimmering evocation of The Garden of Fand, a work infused with Irish mythology and Celtic fantasy. Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Music
Ireland: The Forgotten Rite
Walton: Facade (selection)
Bax: The Garden of Fand BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (Conductor) Presented by Tom McKinney. Live from Salford, John Wilson conducts a concert of twentieth-century English music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford | 20191204 | | Rumon Gamba conducts music by Michael Tippett, Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps - a celebration of British musical creativity in the decades after World War II.
Presented by Tom McKinney.Tippett: Praeludium
Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No 1
with Michael Collins (clarinet)
Gipps: Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Rumon Gamba Rumon Gamba conducts music by Michael Tippett, Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Rumon Gamba conducts music by Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tippett and Ruth Gipps. Tasmin Little is the violin soloist in Bernstein's delectable Serenade before Gipps' Third Symphony. Presented by Tom McKinney. Tippett: Praeludium
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium')
with Tasmin Little (violin)
Gipps: Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
Coinductor Rumon Gamba |
| Bbc Philharmonic, Live From Mediacityuk | 20200124 | | Featuring live music by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England.
Presented by Elizabeth AlkerBeethoven: Overture, The Consecration of the House
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K271)
Beethoven: Gratulations-Menuett (WoO 3)
Elisabeth Brauss, piano
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot, conductor Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic, Live From Salford | 20190515 | | The BBC Philharmonic, live from Salford, in a programme of works by Polish-born composer Mieczysław Weinberg, including the world premiere of his piece Morning-Red. Long resident in Moscow, he was a friend and confidante of Dmitri Shostakovich and his was some of the most interesting and important Soviet music of the last half of the twentieth century. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00pm
Mussorgsky arr. Shostakovich: Khovantshchina, Prleude to Act I (Dawn on the Moscow river)
Weinberg: Morning-Red (Dawn), op. 60 (world premiere);
Concerto no. 1 for flute and string orchestra, op. 75;
Symphony no. 4, op. 61
Alex Jakeman, flute
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor The BBC Philharmonic, live from Salford, in a programme of works by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic. Live From Salford | 20200122 | | Today's Concert: live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio, Media City. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Ravel Mother Goose: Five Pieces
Alessandro Fisher, tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot, conductor Presented by Elizabeth Alker Featuring live music by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Philharmonic: Music By George Antheil Live From Salford | 20180530 | | 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:
Capital of the World suite
Symphony no. 1 "Zingaresca" BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor. The BBC Philharmonic celebrates the self-styled 'bad boy of music', George Antheil. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Proms Dubai 2019 | 20190401 | | This week will be featuring, among other things, concerts from the recent tour to Dubai made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Today we're at Dubai's Opera with a programme given by the BBC Singers, introduced there by Petroc Trelawny. First, the Singers perform Britten's Choral Dances from his opera 'Gloriana' and Duruflé's Four Motets on Gregorian Themes. Then comes a selection of popular works including Laura Mvula's Love Like a Lion. Then, the Singers are joined by the Dubai English-speaking College Chamber Choir in an arrangement of Bob Chilcott's We Are, who also arranged Billy Joel's And So It Goes, performed by the local group on their own. Next is the Singers again in songs from Flanders & Swann's 'At the drop of a Hat'. And the concert ends with Laura Mvula's Sing to the Moon, a medley of Abba's music, arranged for choir and Andrew Gold's classic Never Let Her Slip Away.
For the rest of the afternoon we're in the company of Fiona Talkington as she introduces Lighting the Fire, a work by the Estonian composer Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, featured in the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers.
Then we move to Milton Court in London, with Dominic Dagavino performing Ligeti's Musica Ricercata for piano, part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 'Total Immersion' cycle.
And the afternoon ends with Richard Strauss's Sonatina No.1 in F major "From an Invalid's Workshop", with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Wind, conducted by Douglas Boyd.2.00pm - Concert presented by Petroc Trelawny
Britten: Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana'
Duruflé: Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens
Laura Mvula: Love Like a Lion
Bob Chilcott: We Are
Billy Joel, arr Chilcott: And So It Goes
Flanders & Swann, arr Stephen Jeffes and Grace Rossiter: Choral Suite of Songs from ‘At the Drop of a Hat'
Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, arr. Stephen Jeffes and Grace Rossiter: ABBA Medley
Andrew Gold arr. Jonathan Wikeley: Never Let Her Slip Away BBC Singers
Dubai English-speaking College Chamber Choir
Sofi Jeannin, conductor Presented by Fiona Talkington
3.20pm
2018 International Rostrum of Composers
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (Estonia): Lighting the Fire 3.53pm
From the BBCSO's Total Immersion: Ligeti - at Milton Court in London
Ligeti: Musica ricercata for piano solo 1951-53
Dominic Degavino, piano 4.23pm
Richard Strauss: Sonatina No.1 in F major "Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden"
BBCSO Wind
Douglas Boyd, conductor The BBC Singers conducted by Sofi Jeannin at Dubai Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180917 | | 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
Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85; "Enigma" Variations, Op.36
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor 3.20pm
Macmillan: Stomp (with Fate and Elvira)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor 4.00pm
Copland: Quiet City
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op.20
Bernstein: Halil
Mark O'Keeffe, trumpet
James Horan, cor anglais
Charlotte Ashton, flute
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor Penny Gore with music by Elgar, Dvorak, Copland and Bernstein Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180918 | | 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
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Staples, tenor
David Soar, bass
Rotterdam Symphony Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor 1540
Bennett: Concerto for Stan Getz; Symphony no. 2
Howard McGill, saxophone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor 1620
Mozart: Symphony no.41 in C, K.551 "Jupiter"
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Laura Samuel, director 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 |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180921 | | 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
Haydn: Cello Concerto no.1 in C, Hob.7b.1
Bruckner: Symphony no.7 in E
Laura van der Heijden, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor 1520
Bennett: Serenade for orchestra; Partita for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor 1550
Bridge orch. Hindmarsh: Three Idylls
Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18
Mozart: Serenade in G, K.525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
Claire Booth, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Laura Samuel, director Penny Gore introduces music by Haydn, Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20181105 | | A week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, beginning with a concert of American music by Copland, Augusta Read Thomas and Gershwin. Tom also highlights the symphonic works of Michael Tippett who died 20 years ago, starting today with his Symphony in B flat major, written in the mid-1930s when Tippett was still in his twenties. Presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00 pm
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Augusta Read Thomas: Brio
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Songfest Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Tracy Cantin, soprano
Michele Losier, mezzo soprano
Kelley O'Connor, alto
Paul Appleby, tenor
Nmon Ford, baritone
Musa Ngqungwana, bass
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor c. 3.25 pm
Copland: Billy the Kid Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor c. 3.45 pm
Tippett: Symphony in B flat major [1933-34]
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c. 4.15 pm
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein and Tippett Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20181107 | | Today's concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra features Sibelius's patriotic tone poem Finlandia, and his Violin Concerto of which Donald Tovey wrote 'I have not met a more original, a more masterly, and a more exhilarating work'. The soloist is Viktoria Mullova, with conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The concert ends with Nielsen's Second Symphony, The Four Temperaments, describing four personality types: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, and sanguine. The concert is presented by Tom Redmond. 2.00 pm
Sibelius: Finlandia
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Nielsen: Symphony No.2 (The Four Temperaments) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Viktoria Mullova, violin Much-loved works by Sibelius and Nielsen performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20181109 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra end a week of concerts with Dohnanyi's First Violin Concerto with soloist Barnabás Kelemen, Kodály's Dances of Galánta and Borodin's Second Symphony. The concert is conducted by Gergely Madaras and presented by Tom Redmond. Tom also features another symphonic work by Michael Tippett, ending his brief survey this week of the composer's works with the Fourth Symphony. It begins and ends with the sound of a single breath, fittingly as Tippett described the work as a 'birth to death piece.' 2.00 pm
Erno Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto No 1 in D minor
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Alexander Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Barnabás Kelemen, violin
Gergely Madaras, conductor c. 3.25 pm
Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor c. 4.00 pm
Michael Tippett: Symphony No 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c. 4.30 pm
Bridge orch P Hindmarsh: 3 Idylls for string quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Laura Samuel, director/violin Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Borodin performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20190204 | | A week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today James Ehnes joins the orchestra for Britten's Violin Concerto; plus Dvorak's Cello Concerto with Nicolas Altstaedt; Eduard Lassen's Violin Concerto with Linus Roth & Richard Rodney Bennett's 1st Symphony The Romantic passions of these symphonic works are contrasted with the sparkling wit and infectious energy of a couple of excerpts from Rossini operas with mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds. Presented by Penny Gore Barber: Essay no. 2 Op.17
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
James Feddeck (conductor) 2.40pm
Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture
Rossini: Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville
Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor) 2.55pm
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 3.35pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: Symphony No.1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) 3.55pm
Eduard Lassen: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.87
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Linus Roth (violin)
Antony Hermus (conductor) James Ehnes performs Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto with the BBC SSO Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20190205 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto with pianist Stephen Hough; and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23 with soloist Elisabeth Brauss Franz Liszt composed his 1st Piano Concerto over a 26-year period. It premiered in Weimar in 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. It is a thunderous war-house of a concerto with contrasting exquisite lyrical sections. Presented by Penny Gore Bartók: Suite No.2
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major
Bartók: Suite No.1
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 3.30pm
Philipp Scharwenka: Violin Concerto op.95
Linus Roth, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Antony Hermus, conductor 4.05pm
Richard Rodney Bennett
Reflections on a 16th century tune
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) 4.20pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 K.488
Elisabeth Brauss, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Holly Mathieson, conductor Concertos by Mozart, Scharwenka and Liszt plus Bartok's two orchestral suites Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200504 | | Penny Gore presents the first in a week of programmes featuring highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current season. Bruckner Symphony no. 8 in C minor Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Recorded 28/02/20 in the Music Hall, Aberdeen. Brahms Quartet in G minor Op.25, orch. Schoenberg [orig. Piano Quartet no.1] BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) Recorded 11/10/19 in the Concert Hall, Perth. Highlights form the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current season. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200505 | | Penny Gore presents the second programme in a week of concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Bartok – Hungarian Sketches
Schumann – Piano Concerto
Elgar – Symphony No.1 Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Recorded 16.05.19, in City Halls, Glasgow. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 in D minor Op.47 Claudia Huckle (contralto)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sanderling (conductor)
Recorded 30/01/20, in Glasgow City Halls The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Elgar and Shostakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200506 | | Penny Gore presents the third of a week of programmes featuring concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Chopin Concerto no. 1 in E minor Op.11 for piano and orchestra
Schumann Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61 Zlata Chochieva (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor)
Recorded 09/02/20 in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Chopin and Schumann from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200615 | | Concerts and recordings made in Ayr. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces a week of music from the BBC Scottish Symphony beginning today with a concert of music from the Town Hall in Ayr recorded at the start of the year. Bacewicz: Concerto for string orchestra
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor
Kristof Barati (violin)
BBC SSO conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya Also from Ayr... Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn
BBC SSO conducted by John Wilson Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor "Tragic"
BBC SSO conducted by Francois Leleux |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200616 | | Concerts and recordings from Perth, including Dohnanyi's First Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces music making from Perth from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a chance to hear Ernst von Dohnanyi's five-movement neo-romantic First Symphony. A concert recorded in Perth Concert Hall in February of this year... Smetana: Overture - The Bartered Bride
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
Dohnanyi: Symphony No 1 in D minor Karen Gomyo (violin)
BBC SSO conducted by Gergely Madaras Also from Perth.... Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No1 in F BBC SSO conducted by Andrew Manze |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200617 | | A concert from Inverness, including works by Glazunov and Tchaikovsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces more music making from Scotland with a concert recorded by the BBC SSO at Eden Court in Inverness in March of this year. Glazunov: Chopiniana
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 BBC SSO conducted by Martyn Brabbins Plus a chance to hear more recordings from the BBC Radio 3 "New Generation Artists". A concert from Inverness, including works by Glazanov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20200619 | | Concerts and recordings from Edinburgh, including Walton's First Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces music-making from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra recorded in Edinburgh, including a concert of music by Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov given in the Usher Hall. Finnis: The Air, Turning (BBC Commission)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
BBC SSO conducted by Ilan Volkov Also from Edinburgh.... Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat
BBC SSO conducted by Martyn Brabbins Concerts and recordings from Edinburgh. |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Barber, Bernstein, Rachmaninov | 20191030 | | Tom McKinney with music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a concert from Inverness of American and Russian music conducted by John Wilson. Leonard Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from 'On The Town'
Samuel Barber: Knoxville - Summer of 1915
(Elizabeth Reiter - soprano)
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Barber, Bernstein and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Barber, Britten, Macmillan | 20191028 | | Tom McKinney introduces concerts and recordings made by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including appearances at this year's St Magnus Festival in Orkney. Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations
(Mary Bevan - soprano)
James MacMillan: For Sonny
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
(Leader - Laura Samuel) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Liebreich The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Barber, Britten and MacMillan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Bartok, Brahms, Macmillan | 20191101 | | Tom McKinney introduces a programme of concerts and recordings given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including music recorded in Salzburg under their Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
(Elizabeth Leonskaya - piano)
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard .... and from this year's Edinburgh Festival James MacMillan: A Scotch Bestiary
(Stephen Farr - organ) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joana Carneiro. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok, Brahms and MacMillan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Brahms, Haydn, Rachmaninov | 20191029 | | Tom McKinney introduces concerts and recordings from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including the premiere of a new work by Stuart MacRae given at this year's Lammermuir festival. Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 42 in D
Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
(Vadim Kholodenko - piano)
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Carter From the 2019 Lammermuir Festival Stuart MacRae: Prometheus Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra
(Jennifer France - soprano)
(Paul Carey Jones - baritone) Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 5 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthew Halls. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Brahms, Haydn and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Live | 20181213 | | Glasgow's City Halls hosts the BBC Scottish SO in a live concert featuring Anna Clyne's Masquerade, Dvořák's Cello Concerto & Sibelius Symphony No.2. Presented by Jamie MacDougall. After the live concert, Penny Gore introduces music by composers who served in the Armed Forces during World War 1, some of whom died in the conflict. These pieces were recorded during the Total Immersion 'In Remembrance' weekend at the Barbican in November, featuring Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Anna Clyne: Masquerade
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major
Pablo Ferrández, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor c.3.50pm
Frederick Septimus Kelly: Six Songs, Op. 6
Katherine Mcindoe, soprano
Michael Pandya, piano Rudi Stephan: Groteske
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Serene Koh, piano Georges Antoine: Piano Quartet in B minor, Op. 6
Joon Yoon piano
Juliette Roos violin
Oscar Holch viola
Akito Goto cello The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Clyne, Dvorak and Sibelius in Glasgow. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan - 'last Night Of The Proms' | 20191127 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.
Fiona Talkington introduces performances recorded recently during the orchestra's residency at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo. This afternoon they bring the spirit of the Last Night of the Proms to Tokyo in a concert featuring the brilliant young saxophonist, Jess Gillam and the Japanese soprano Maki Mori.Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Milhaud: Scaramouche
Malcolm Arnold: 4 Scottish dances Op.59 no. 3 ‘Scottish Waltz'
Purcell: Now that the sun hath veiled his light Z.193 (An Evening hymn on a ground)
Puccini: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Jess Gillam (saxophone) andMaki Mori (soprano)
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) and at approx. 2.35pm a performance the orchestra gave earlier this year in Salzburg Elgar Symphony no. 1 in A flat Op.55
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan (2) | 20191126 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.
Georgia Mann introduces performances recorded recently during the orchestra's residency at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo. This afternoon they play Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Elgar.Sibelius: Finlandia Op.26
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35
Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major Op.43 Vadim Repin (violin)
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) followed at apporx 3.35pm by: Toshio Hosokawa: Preludio for orchestra
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85 Dai Miyata (cello)
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers | 20180502 | | Penny Gore presents a BBC Singers concert from St Paul's, Knightsbridge featuring settings of the poetry of George Herbert. Benjamin Britten: Antiphon
William Harris: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life
Herbert Howells: Sweetest of sweets; Antiphon ('Let all the world in every corner sing')
Ola Gjeilo: Contrition
Mary Plumstead: A Grateful Heart
Ben Parry: Heaven
John Tavener: Love Bade Me Welcome
Judith Weir: Vertue
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs Andrew Rupp (baritone)
Choral Scholars of Royal Holloway University of London
BBC Singers
Conductor Rupert Gough
Stephen Farr (organ and piano). Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in a concert featuring the poetry of George Herbert. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers | 20191023 | | A concert given by The BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin at St Paul's, Knightsbridge Presented by Kate Molleson. Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in music by Anders Hillborg, Gerald Finzi, Judith Bingham and CV Stanford, plus the world premiere of Rachel Portman's "Earth Song". The afternoon ends with a further recording by the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin of two choral pieces by Francis Poulenc – his Sept Chansons and Chansons Francaises. 2.00pm
Anders Hillborg: Endless Sky
Gerald Finzi: Clear and gentle stream
Judith Bingham: The drowned lovers
Charles Villiers Stanford: The blue bird
Rachel Portman: Earth Song (world premiere) BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor 3.00pm
Francis Poulenc: Sept Chansons
Francis Poulenc: Chansons Francaises The BBC Singers with Finzi, Stanford, Anders Hillborg, Judith Bingham and Rachel Portman. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers - Live | 20181116 | | Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, presented by Petroc Trelawny, the BBC Singers perform music written by the organists & composers Wayne Marshall & Naji Hakim, who each perform in their own works. After the live concert, Kate Molleson continues this week's focus on the multi-faceted BBC Concert Orchestra with music by Jean Rivier, Ryan Latimer & Leonard Bernstein. Wayne Marshall: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for upper voices
Naji Hakim: Messe solennelle
Wayne Marshall: Organ improvisation on themes of Leonard Bernstein
Naji Hakim: No. 3. Noël from Trois Noël Naji Hakim, Organ
Wayne Marshall, Conductor/Organ
BBC Singers c.3pm
Our Classical Century
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending c.3.15pm
Jean Rivier: Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra
Ransom Wilson, flute
BBC Concert Orchestra
Perry So, conductor c.3.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Ryan Latimer: Frigates & Folly - CEFC commission, world premiere
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - Soloist: Joshua Abrams
Bernstein: West Side Story Concert Suite No.2
Valeria Perboni (Maria/Rosalia)
Emily Chesterton (Anita)
Kieran Parrott (Riff)
Nitai Levi (Bernardo/Tony) Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Temple, conductor Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge with organists-composers Wayne Marshall and Naji Hakim Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20200609 | | Music by Esenvalds, Uusberg and Lauridsen and Sullivan's incidental music for The Tempest. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore presents a Mindfulness Moment with the BBC Singers – with thoughts on choral music from young musicians, conductors and composers; new CD releases from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including Anton Simon's Piano Concerto in A flat; and looking ahead to Thursday's opera matinee in which we'll hear Gilbert without Sullivan, we have Sullivan without Gilbert! Actor Simon Callow joins the orchestra for The Tempest with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan. 2.00pm
Ēriks Ešenvalds: O salutaris
Pärt Uusberg: Õhtul (Evening)
Pärt Uusberg: Valgusele (For Light)
Matthew Martin: An Invocation to the Holy Spirit
Morten Lauridsen: O Nata Lux
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Sergei Rachmaninov: Tebe poem
Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me
Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers
BBC Singers
Owain Park, conductor 2.35pm
Anton Simon: Piano Concerto in A flat
Victor Sangiorgio, piano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor 3.05pm
Sullivan: Incidental music to The Tempest
Simon Callow, actor
Mary Bevan and Fflur Wyn, sopranos
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews, conductor 4.05pm
Walter Braunfels: Die Taubenhochzeit aus der Oper Die Vögel, Op 30 No 2
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner, conductor George W Chadwick: A Pastoral Prelude
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor 4.30pm
Will Todd: Concerto for Emma
Emma Johnson, clarinet
BBC Concert Orchestra
Philip Ellis, conductor |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20200610 | | Penny Gore with choral and orchestral music by Gerald Barry and C\u00e9cile Chaminade. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Penny Gore presents two pieces of choral music from Gerald Barry in a recording by the BBC Singers, and Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in his own ballet symphonique of the music Cécile Chaminade wrote in 1888 for a ballet based on the classical Greek story Callirhoë. Gerald Barry: O Lord, how vain
Gerald Barry: Long Time
BBC Singers
Ben Palmer, conductor 2.15pm
Cécile Chaminade: Callirhoë (complete ballet)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20200611 | | Opera Matinée - Penny Gore presents a recording of the comic opera The Mountebanks, with libretto by WS Gilbert working without his famous partner Arthur Sullivan. As music director of the D'Oyly Carte company, conductor and composer Alfred Cellier was no stranger to G & S operas and writes charming music very much in the style. Gilbert was very interested in the 'lozenge plot' storyline, in which characters undergo a transformation thanks to a lozenge or, as here, a magic potion which leads to complications and intrigue in the pursuit of true love. 2.00pm
Gilbert and Cellier: The Mountebanks Teresa: Soraya Mafi (soprano)
Alfredo: Thomas Elwin (tenor)
Arrostino: James Cleverton (baritone)
Minestra: Sharon Carty (mezzo soprano)
Risotto: John-Colyn Gyeantey (tenor)
Nita: Catherine Carby (mezzo soprano)
Bartolo: John Savournin (bass-baritone)
Pietro: Geoffrey Dolton (baritone)
Ultrice: Madeleine Shaw (mezzo soprano)
Elvino: Martin Lamb (bass-baritone) Step-out solos from BBC Singers: Olivia Robinson (soprano), Nancy Cole (mezzo), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Daniel Cook, Chorus master
John Andrews, conductor -------------- 4.10pm
Anton Simon: Danse de Bayadère, Op 34
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor 4.30pm
Walter Braunfels: Serenade, Op 20
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner, conductor Photo credit: Lewis Foreman Opera Matin\u00e9e - Penny Gore presents Gilbert and Cellier's The Mountebanks. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20190625 | | Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky feature large this afternoon with our opening concert from the BBC Singers recorded at St Giles, Cripplegate. Plus, the former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Guy Braunstein joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. The orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, celebrated for his interpretations of Sibelius, conducts the Lemminkäinen Suite.
We showcase two young composers from the International Rostrum of Composers, both writing for orchestra: Estonian Maria Kõrvits, whose piece 'falling up into the bowl of sky' takes inspiration from a poem by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rūmī, and Swede Britta Byström. Her 'Notes from the City of the Sun' is based on the Chinese writer Bei Dao's suite of poems of the same name and performed by the soprano Malin Byström to whom it is dedicated.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Tchaikovsky: Cherubic Hymn - Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim (Nine Sacred Pieces)
Stravinsky: Anthem ‘The dove descending breaks the air'
Tchaikovsky: Hail, gladdening light (Vesper Service Op. 52)
Gesualdo: Three motets: O vos omnes; Ave, Regina coelorum; Hei mihi, Domine (Sacrarum cantionum, Book 1)
Stravinsky: Tres sacrae cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa): Da pacem Domine; Assumpta est Maria; Illumina nos
Tchaikovsky: Blessed are they (Nine Sacred Pieces)
Stravinsky: The Lord's Prayer [Otche nash]
Tchaikovsky: The Lord's prayer [Otche nash] (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)
Stravinsky: Simvol verï (Russian Credo)
Tchaikovsky: At Bedtime
Stravinsky: Bogoroditse Dyevo (Ave Maria)
Tchaikovsky: A Legend (16 Songs for Children, Op. 54)
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor) c.2.50pm
Maria Kõrvits: langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi (falling up into the bowl of sky)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali (conductor) c.3.05pm
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op.35
Guy Braunstein (violin)
BBCSO
Kirill Karabits (conductor) c.3.40pm
Britta Byström: Notes from the City of the Sun
Malin Byström (soprano)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Eun Sun Kim (conductor) c.4.05pm
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite
BBCSO
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Choral music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Plus, Sibelius's thrilling Lemminkainen Suite. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20200306 | | Presented by Penny Gore.
This concert presents a selection of choral works by the British composer Bernard Hughes alongside a selection of favourite composers he has chosen to complement his music. Hughes's music ranges from the wordless ecstasy of Revelation Window to the exciting world premiere of new commission A Ternary of Littles. A sequence of sacred pieces in the second half includes works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Eleanor Alberga, while the secular first half includes a Burns setting by Cecilia McDowall and the exquisite Pavane Fantasia by long-time BBC Singers collaborator Bo Holten.
It's followed by American conductor Fawzi Haimor and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the German trumpeter Simon Höfele both making their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts. There's Syrian-American composer's Kareem Roustom's recent propulsive, colourful piece 'Ramal' and a work by Russian/Soviet composer Sergei Vasilenko - his Concerto Poem for Trumpet & Orchestra, written in the late 1940s, which demonstrates the trumpet's lyrical voice.2.00pm
Bernard Hughes: Revelation Window
Bo Holten: Pavan I (Pavane-Fantasia)
Bernard Hughes: I Sing of Love
Cecilia McDowall: A red, red rose
Bernard Hughes: The winter it is past
Bernard Hughes: Two Songs of Spring
Bernard Hughes: A Ternary of Littles - WORLD PREMIERE
Dobrinka Tabakova: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Bernard Hughes: Psalm 56
Bernard Hughes: Jubilate Domino
Eleanor Alberga: My Heart Danceth
Bernard Hughes: Precious Things
BBC Singers
Eamonn Dougan, conductor 3.10pm
Kareem Roustom: Ramal
Sergei Vasilenko: Concerto Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op.113*
Simon Höfele, trumpet* (Radio 3 New Generation Artist)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fawzi Haimor, conductor 3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor Choral pieces by Holten and Hughes. Orchestral music by Roustom, Vasilenko and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Concert | 20160311 | | Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers in music from New Zealand and Australia Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour | 20191025 | | The BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra with two concerts featuring music by Brahms, Britten, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, Donizetti, Elizabeth Maconchy, Raymond Yiu, Stephen Wilkinson & Hans Gal. Presented by Kate Molleson. Closing our week of music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, we hear two concerts given recently in Shanghai and in London. First we have a choral concert given at St Paul's, Knightsbridge by the BBC Singers conducted by Bart van Reyn. The concert celebrates the 100th birthday of British conductor and composer Stephen Wilkinson, and features his works alongside those of composers with whom he enjoyed a close working relationship, such as John McCabe and Hans Gal.
We end the week as we began, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis on their recent tour to China. They perform music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Benjamin Britten, Stravinsky and Raymond Yiu as well as arias by Saint-Saens, Donizetti and Offenbach with mezzo-soprano Catherine Wynn-Rogers. 2.00pm
Hans Gal: Motet
Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben?
William Byrd: Vigilate
Stephen Wilkinson: Dover Beach
Stephen Wilkinson: The Lark in the Clear Air
Stephen Wilkinson: Y deryn pûr
JS Bach: Komm, Jesu komm, BWV.229
Gustav Holst: Nunc Dimittis
John McCabe: Motet 3.15pm
Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture: Proud Thames
Camille Saint-Saens: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix [Samson et Delilah]
Gaetano Donizetti: O mio Fernando [La Favorita]
Jacques Offenbach: Ah quel diner [La Perichole]
Benjamin Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Raymond Yiu: Xocolatl
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919) Catherine Wynn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor Brahms, Britten, Maconchy, Stravinsky, Saint-Saens, Stephen Wilkinson and Hans Gal Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers At Maida Vale | 20200117 | | The BBC Singers are at Maida Vale Studios for a concert of music by just two composers - Aaron Copland and Thea Musgrave. Gabriella Teychenné conducts. Following that concert, there's a final visit of the week to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, and a piece by the young Argentinian composer Melissa Foss Hyatt - "Hanblecheyapi", written in 2018. The programme continues with a recording made by violinist Guy Braunstein of one of Tchaikovsky's best-known miniatures for violin and orchestra, followed by a final concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale. Mei-Ann Chen conducts arrangements of Florence Price piano pieces, four of Mahler's most heartfelt Lieder with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska, plus works by Hindemeith, Malcolm Forsyth and An-Lun Huang. 2pm
Thea Musgrave: For the Time Being: Advent
Aaron Copland: Help Us, O Lord (Four Motets No.1)
Thea Musgrave: Four Madrigals
Aaron Copland: Thou, O Jehova, Abideth Forever (Four Motets No.2)
Thea Musgrave: Ithaca
Aaron Copland: Have Mercy On Us, O My Lord (Four Motets No.3)
Aaron Copland: Sing Ye Praises To Our King (Four Motets No.4) The BBC Singers
Gabriella Teychenné, conductor 3pm
Melissa Foss Hyatt: Hanblecheyapi (2018)
Performed by the composer 3.10pm
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pas de de deux from Swan Lake
Guy Braunstein, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor 3.20pm
Florence Price arr. William Grant Still: Dances in the Canebrakes
Gustav Mahler: Das irdische Leben; Rheinlegendchen; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt ; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? [Des Knaben Wunderhorn]
Malcolm Forsyth: Three Métis Songs from Saskatchewan
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosen on a Theme of Weber
An-Lun Huang: Saibei Dance Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Presented by Penny Gore. Gabriella Teychenn\u00e9 conducts the BBC Singers in music by Aaron Copland and Thea Musgrave. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers In Good Friday Music | 20190419 | | James Weeks conducts the BBC Singers in a programme featuring his own work for choir and narrator, Orlando Tenebrae, as part of repertoire linked to Good Friday. At the heart of the programme are Lenten-related works that make no reference to Christian or religious specifics in their texts. The Orlando Tenebrae takes these ancient texts into a modern, secular frame of reference, where the theme becomes oppression, suffering and hope. The programme continues with two pieces inspired by Good Friday, with the BBC Singers performing first Kenneth Leighton's Crucifixus Pro Nobis and then, Paul Drayton's The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist.
Also today, Our Classical Century, as we continue to explore repertoire that was crucial in the development of our contemporary music. Today, it's Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, from which we hear the Agnus Dei in the celebrated version featuring tenor Peter Pears and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by the composer. Presented by Hannah French.2.00pm
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Three Tenebrae Responsories Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
Aestimatus sum
O vos omnes James Weeks: Orlando Tenebrae (with narrator) Heinrich Schütz:
Quid commisisti, o puer SWV56
Die mit Tränen saen, SWV378
Die mit Tränen saen, SWV42 BBC Singers
James Weeks, conductor [& chamber organ in last Schutz piece (SWV42)] Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus Pro Nobis Christopher Bowen - tenor solo
Richard Pearce – organ
BBC Singers
Paul Spicer – conductor Paul Drayton: The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist Jesus: Andrew Rupp - baritone
High Priest & Pilate: Jamie W. Hall - bass
Narrator: Olivia Robinson – soprano
Peter: Stephen Jeffes – tenor
BBC Singers
Marin Andre – conductor 4.10pm
Our Classical Century -
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Agnus Dei Peter Pears, tenor
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Benjamin Britten, conductor Repertoire by Victoria, Jonathan Weeks, Schutz, Kenneth Leighton and Paul Drayton. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers In London And Bbc Symphony Orchestra In China | 20191115 | | Choral music by Emily Howard and Ralph Vaughan Williams recorded at St Giles Cripplegate plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in China, recorded at the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing earlier this year with soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers and conductor Sir Andrew Davis. Colloquially described as The Giant Egg, China's NCPA is an ellipsoid dome of titanium glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seating over 5000 people in three halls. This concert, recorded there with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis, included Beethoven's set of incidental pieces for a Goethe play, his Egmont Overture, Mahler's 'Songs of a Wayfaring Lad' and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony which was premiered in December 1953 following the death of Joseph Stalin in March of that year. 2pm
Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes
Emily Howard: Threnos
Emily Howard: Ite Fortes
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folk Songs
BBC Singers
Richard Pearce (organist)
Paul Spicer (conductor)
Daniel Bhattacharya (violin soloist for Ite Fortes) c.2.50pm
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Shostakovich: Symphony No.10
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano)
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Choral music by Emily Howard and Ralph Vaughan Williams plus the BBCSO on tour in China. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Singers Live From St Pauls, Knightsbridge | 20160615 | | Fiona Talkington presents a concert with the BBC Singers live from St Paul's Knightsbridge Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Chorus | 20180606 | | Fiona Talkington presents a programme celebrating the remarkable amateur singers of the BBC Symphony Chorus, including a concert featuring Brahms's Requiem William Harris: Bring us, O Lord God
Gabriel Jackson: Justorum animae
BBC Symphony Chorus
Conductor Neil Ferris Louis Couperin: Le tombeau de M. Blancrocher
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) Brahms: A German Requiem
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy (pianos)
Conductor Neil Ferris Vaughan Williams: Darest thou now, O Soul
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Fiona Talkington presents the BBC Symphony Chorus in British music and Brahms's Requiem. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180430 | | 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)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
3pm - Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo 3.50pm
Suk: Serenade for strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra strings
Conductor Gergely Madaras. Penny Gore presents the BBC SO playing Brahms, Britten and Tchaikovsky on tour in Japan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180501 | | 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
2.35pm - Mahler: Symphony No 5
Yu Kosoge (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo 3.50pm
Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher - concerto for viola and small orchestra
Eivind Holtsmark-Ringstad (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Douglas Boyd. Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov and Mahler on tour in Japan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180504 | | 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
Britten: Violin Concerto
2.45pm - Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F major (Pastoral)
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo 3.30pm
Richard Strauss: Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra winds
Conductor Douglas Boyd 3.55pm
Florent Schmitt: Symphony No 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo. Penny Gore presents the BBC SO in Anna Clyne, Britten and Beethoven on tour in Switzerland Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180608 | | Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert playing music by American and British composers - plus a Russian exile, Stravinsky. Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
with Steven Osborne (piano)
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 )
Bernstein: Symphony No 1 (Jeremiah)
with Jessica Gillingwater (mezzo)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Roderick Cox 3.35pm
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing American and English music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20200304 | | Presented by Penny Gore
The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios with a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded recently.
Two works written by composers at the start of their creative outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There's a rarely performed work by the 13-year-old Richard Strauss, his Serenade in G major. The Concerto for piano, full string orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct furrow through the 20th-century Soviet Union. And we end with Jean Sibelius's final symphony, written in 1923-24. Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of one long continuous movement. Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan both make their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts.
It's followed by performances given by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama taken as part of the BBC's Total Immersion cycle, devoted this time to the music of Detlev Glanert, including also works from some of his German contemporaries. First we hear Three Auden Songs by Hans Werner Henze, followed by Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op. 13, by Glanert himself.2.00pm
R. Strauss: Serenade in G, AV 32
Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto*
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Marianna Shirinyan, piano*
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen, conductor 3.10pm
Henze: Three Auden Songs (1983)
Jonah Halton, tenor
Matthew Gemmill, piano Glanert: Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op.13 (1986)
Leo Popplewell, cello
Matthew Gemmill, piano With music by Richard Strauss, Galina Ustvolskaya and Sibelius. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Penny Gore
The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios with a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded recently.
Two works written by composers at the start of their creative outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There's a rarely performed work by the 13 year old Richard Strauss, his Serenade in G major. The Concerto for piano, full string orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct furrow through the 20th century Soviet Union. And we end with Jean Sibelius's final symphony, written in 1923-24. Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of one long continuous movement. Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan both make their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts.
It's followed by performances given by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama taken as part of the BBC's Total Immersion cycle, devoted this time to the music of Detlev Glanert, including also works from some of his German contemporaries. First we hear Three Auden Songs by Hans Werner Henze, followed by Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op. 13, by Glanert himself. 2.00pm
R. Strauss: Serenade G dur Op. AV 32
Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto*
Sibelius: Symphony No. Glanert: Serenade for Cello and Piano Op.13 (1986)
Leo Popplewell, cello
Matthew Gemmill, piano |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra - Live | 20181214 | | Live from Maida Vale Studios, the young Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Linberg, Kabalevsky & Bartok. Presented by Natasha Riordan. After the live concert, Penny Gore continues our celebration of ‘Our Classical Century', a countdown of the hundred most important events in classical music across the last hundred years. In this final week, we focus on Prokofiev's Peter and the wolf and hear a performance by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, recorded in 1999, and narrated by David Attenborough. The afternoon concludes with the final pieces from the Total Immersion 'In Remembrance' concert recorded at the Barbican last month featuring Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. We'll hear music by George Butterworth who died whilst serving in the Armed Forces during World War 1, and Enrique Granados who became fatally involved in the war only by chance. Lindberg: Two Episodes
Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No.1, Op.4
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Jonathan Roozeman, cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
David Attenborough, narrator Granados: La maja dolorosa
Carmen Artaza, mezzo-soprano
Michael Pandya, piano Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
Andrew Hamilton, baritone
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Ruth Hene, violin
Oscar Holch, viola
Akito Goto, cello Live from Maida Vale, Dalia Stasevska conducts music by Lindberg, Kabalevsky and Bartok. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20180604 | | Fiona Talkington launches a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a programme featuring the mandolin and guitar in music from Italy and Mexico. Plus choral music from the BBC Singers. Ravel: Shéhérazade - ouverture de féerie
Avner Dorman: Mandolin Concerto
with Avi Avatal (mandolin)
Ghedini: Musica notturna (UK premiere)
with Avi Avatal (mandolin)
Respighi: Pines of Rome
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniele Rustioni 4pm
Ponce: Concierto del Sur
Thibaut Garcia (guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Rumon Gamba 4.30pm
Walton: Partita for Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Edward Gardner Other highlights in Afternoon Concert this week:
Tuesday - a live Ulster Orchestra concert featuring music by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, plus Elgar's Second Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Wednesday - the BBC Symphony Chorus perform Brahms's Requiem.
Thursday - a rare chance to hear Gounod's last opera, in the month of his 200th birthday.
Friday - a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert of American music including Bernstein, Copland and Gershwin, plus Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony. Fiona Talkington presents concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20191111 | | Emily Howard's music embraces a diverse range of influences from science, maths, philosophy and poetry, and she's used concepts from the world of mathematics in the shape and structure of her piece "Torus". A torus is a whole with a hole: it is often described as doughnut-shaped, a squashed and stretched ball held together with a central void. In it, the music is as much about absence as presence. It was commissioned for the 2016 BBC Proms seasons and this performance was recorded at London's Barbican Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins. Radio 3 New Generation Artist Elena Urisote then joins the orchestra for Vaughan Williams' concerto in all but name, The Lark Ascending, and we'll hear the first of 3 Vaughan Williams symphonies conducted by Brabbins this week - we'll hear the 5th today, the 4th tomorrow and the 3rd on Thursday. Later in the afternoon, highlights from a concert the BBC Singers gave in the fine acoustics of St Giles Cripplegate including Mahler's own arrangement of the Adagietto from his 5th Symphony, and we round off with Ravel's musical memorial to his compatriot François Couperin.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Emily Howard: Torus
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Elena Urisote (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.3.15pm
Brahms: Fest- und Gedenkspruche Op.109
Mahler arr. Clytus Gottwald: Im Abendrot (Adagietto from Symphony No. 5)
BBC Singers
Anna Tilbrook (piano)
James O'Donnell (conductor) c.4pm
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) A mathematical form, an expansive symphony, a masterful arrangement and a musical memorial Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20200302 | | Penny Gore presents a week with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Surely you jest? A Beethoven-inspired concert with a difference from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Portuguese powerhouse conductor Joana Carneiro. The ‘Eroica' symphony blew classical music sky-high and the Grosse Fuge still sounds modern after nearly 200 years. John Adams' Absolute Jest – starring the Doric Quartet – absorbs musical artefacts, saluting Beethoven the way he would have wanted: with one enormous musical joke.
Followed by the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, who perform the world premiere of David Sawer's work for choir and bassoon 'How Among the Frozen Words'. The perfect music for a winter's afternoon, this piece came from a chapter in Rabelais' novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. Whilst travelling towards the North Pole, Rabelais describes seeing letters of the alphabet frozen in the sky. Sawer's also inspired by Omyakon, a remote village in eastern Siberia which holds the record for the coldest place on earth. Also in the programme, repertoire by Edvard Grieg, Karin Rehnqvist, Kaija Saariaho and Matthias Skold.2.00pm
Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
John Adams: Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Doric String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joana Carneiro, conductor 3.40pm
Karin Rehnqvist: HAYA!
Edvard Grieg: Ved Rondane, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 9
Kaija Saariaho: Nuits adieux
Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
Mattias Skold: We Know Not Where The Dragons Fly
Edvard Grieg: Våren, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 2
David Sawer: How Among the Frozen Words* - BBC COMMISSION WORLD PREMIERE Jonathan Davies, bassoon*
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor With music by Beethoven and John Adams, and a choral recital including Grieg and Sawer. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers At The Barbican | 20191112 | | Among the first composers commissioned by the Ensemble InterContemporain, Betsy Jolas wrote her Onze Lieder for them in 1977, with a solo part for Pierre Thibaud who was her colleague at the Paris Conservatoire where she was taught by Olivier Messiaen. She avoided the bald title ‘concerto' in favour of something more atmospheric, creating a sequence of instrumental songs for trumpet of contrasting character and scoring. This concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall features star soloist Hakan Hardenberger who also performs Haydn's bright & energising trumpet concerto. Two "Classical" symphonies frame these concertante works under the orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. As part of the Barbican's Sound Unbound weekend in May this year the BBC Singers recorded a concert at St Batholomew-the-Great featuring music spanning the 15th- to 21st Centuries, and the afternoon ends with the second of the Vaughan Williams Symphonies which the BBC Symphony Orchestra has recently recorded with conductor Martyn Brabbins, and a piece by which Arthur Bliss wrote for the rich, expressive contralto voice of Kathleen Ferrier and an orchestra without clarinets, bassoons, or tuba, ‘relying on the nasal tone of oboe and cor anglais, and the sardonic sound of muted brass'.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Prokofiev: Symphony 1 "Classical"
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Betsy Jolas: Onze Lieder - UK premiere
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 "Drumroll"
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c.3.15pm
Claudio Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a6
Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands
Robert Lucas Pearsall: Lay a garland
Pierre Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
John Tavener: Mother of God, here I stand
Joseph Rheinberger: Abendlied, Op. 69, No. 3
Charles Wood: Hail, Gladdening Light
Sergei Rachmaninov: Tebe poem
BBC Singers
Peter Dijkstra (conductor) c.4pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.4.35pm
Arthur Bliss: The Enchantress
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Betsy Jolas, classical symphonies and Arthur Bliss writing for Kathleen Ferrier. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers | 20200512 | | Some of Anders Hillborg's earliest lessons in music were learnt singing in choirs. In a concert recorded at St Giles' Cripplegate in February, the BBC Singers present the first performance of a new choral work by the Swedish composer alongside some of his established favourites, including the simple song lined with mourning O Dessa Ögon and the spine-tingling surround-sound of the 16-part Mouyayoum. Complementing Hillborg's works, Ragnar Rasmussen and the Singers bring us the radiant and heartbreaking love songs by Hillborg's compatriot Sven-David Sandström and Olivier Messiaen's cut-glass miniature O Sacrum Convivium.
Followed by a performance recorded at the Barbican in January this year by legendary American pianist Garrick Ohlsson of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with its towering technical demands for the soloist. The composer took the part for the 1909 world premiere in New York, preparing for it by practising on a dummy keyboard aboard ship on the Atlantic en route to the US. Early the following year he gave a performance with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Gustav Mahler.
The afternoon closes with a rare opportunity to hear Bliss' Mary of Magdala in a recent recording with Dame Sarah Connolly as Mary Magdala, James Platt as Jesus and the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC SO under Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis. Bliss was drawn to the story describing it as ‘one of the loveliest stories in the New Testament' where at the sepulchre, Mary Magdala was the first to see the risen Christ supposing him to be the gardener.
Presented by Georgia Mann.2pm
Anders Hillborg: The Cradle Song, O Dessa ögon, The Breathing of the World (UK premiere)
Sven-David Sandström: Four Songs of Love
Anders Hillborg: Stella Maris, Lilla Sus Grav
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Songs from Kalender Röd
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
Anders Hillborg: Mouyayoum
BBC Singers
Theo Hillborg, saxophone
Filip Graden, cello
Ragnar Rasmussen, conductor c.3.20pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor c.4.10pm
Arthur Bliss: Mary of Magdala
Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
James Platt, bass
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor Ethereal Nordic choir, Rachmaninov and biblical Bliss with the BBC SO and Singers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 90 | 20201030 | | Penny Gore closes this week of celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with one of its former Chief Conductors, Jiri Belohlavek, conducting an outstanding performance of Janacek's comic opera The Adventures of Mr. Broucek. Tenor Jan Vacik is in the title role, leading an almost entirely Czech cast plus the BBC Singers. Two Excursions: one drunken flight of fantasy to the moon, the other back in time to 15th century war-torn Prague! This is Janacek's operatic reaction to the satirical stories of Svatopluk Cech, and unique among his operas: comic, serious, and patriotic. Recorded at the Barbican Hall in February 2017. Jan Vacik - Tenor (Mr Broucek)
Peter Straka - Tenor (Mazal/Ethereal/Kunka)
Maria Haan - Soprano (Malinka/Etherea/Kunka)
Roman Janal - Baritone (Sacristan, Lunobor, Domsik)
Zdenek Plech - Bass (Wurfl/Caroskvouci/Councillor)
Ivan Kusnjer - Baritone (The apparition of Svatopluk/Second Taborite)
Lenka Smidova - Mezzo-soprano (Housekeeper/Kedruta)
Martina Bauerova - Soprano (Young Waiter/Child Prodigy/Student)
Jaroslav Brezina - Tenor (Painter/Duhoslav/Vojta from the Peacocks/Voice of the Professor)
Ales Briscein - Tenor (Composer/Harfoboboj/Miroslav the goldsmith)
Vaclav Sibera - Baritone (Poet [Prague]/Oblacny/Vacek Bradaty)
Edward Goater - Tenor (Poet)
Christopher Bowen - Tenor (Another Poet)
Charles Gibbs - Bass (First Taborite)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor Janacek's comic opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek in 2007. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra At Maida Vale | 20200115 | | The BBC Symphony Orchestra are at Maida Vale Studios for a concert of 20th and 21st-century music which includes one of Bartok's final orchestral works - his Viola Concerto, written for virtuoso viola player William Primrose. There are also three UK premieres of works by US composers Andrew Norman, Augusta Read Thomas and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Following that concert, there's another visit to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, and a piece by the young Latvian composer Jēkabs JanĀ?evskis - "When", written in 2018. The programme ends with a recording made by violinist Guy Braunstein of one of Tchaikovsky's best-known miniatures for violin and orchestra. 2pm
Andrew Norman: Sacred Geometry (UK Premiere)
Bela Bartok: Viola Concerto
Augusta Read Thomas: Helios Choros I (UK premiere)
Jonathan Bailey Holland: Motor City Dance Mix (UK premiere) Timothy Ridout, viola
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brad Lubman, conductor 3pm
Jēkabs JanĀ?evskis: When (2018)
Kristaps Bergs, cello
Mixed Choir of Riga Cathedral Choir School
Jurgis Cabalis, conductor 3.10pm
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade mélancolique, Op.26
Guy Braunstein, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor Presented by Penny Gore. The BBC SO with Bartok, Andrew Norman, Augusta Read Thomas and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra At The Barbican | 20200113 | | This week Penny Gore introduces concerts given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. There are also highlights each day from the 66th International Rostrum of Composers, which took place in Argentina. The week begins with a concert conducted by Alexander Vedernikov, featuring Gyorgy Sviridov's paean to Pushkin - 'The Blizzard', Rachmaninov's ever-popular set of variations on one of Paganini's Caprices - with soloist Andrei Korobeinikov, and Tchaikovsky's earliest notable work - the First Symphony. The programme also includes a recent work for mixed choir by the young Estonian composer Gerta Raidma, which was recorded at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. To end, Jack Liebeck joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to perform the violin concerto that Schoenberg composed three years after fleeing Nazi Germany to the USA. 2pm
Gyorgy Sviridov: The Blizzard (Suite)
Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1, "Winter Daydreams"
Andrei Korobeinikov, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor 3.40pm
Gerta Raidma: Je suis (2018)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Kaspars Putniņš, conductor 3.45pm
Arnold Schoenberg: Violin Concerto
Jack Liebeck, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay, conductor The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Sviridov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Hungarian Music | 20170516 | | Nielsen, Bruch and Mendelssohn from violinist Jack Liebeck and the Ulster Orchestra, live from Ulster Hall, Belfast and presented by John Toal.
Followed by Hungarian works from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded at London's Barbican Hall earlier this year and introduced by Katie Derham.2.00pm - LIVE
Nielsen: Saga-Drøm, Op.39
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op.46
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op.27
Jack Liebeck, violin
Ulster Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi, conductor Presented by Katie Derham: 3.00pm
Bartok:Concerto for Orchestra
Péter Eötvös: Senza sangue
Russell Braun, tenor
Albane Carrère, mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young, conductor. The Ulster Orchestra in Nielsen, Bruch and Mendelssohn. Plus BBC SO in Bartok and Eotvos. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour | 20191021 | | From the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent trip to China, a concert featuring music by Huang Ruo alongside Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Also, featuring choral music by Joanna Marsh performed by the BBC Singers and Stravinsky from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Kate Molleson. Starting a week with material from the BBC Symhony Orchestra's 2019 tour of China, plus other material recorded recently at the Edinburgh Festival and pieces recorded by The BBC Singers, today we feature a concert given in Shanghai by the BBC SO with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov. The concert - given at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall - begins with the world premiere of Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo's Folk Songs for Orchestra. Also in the programme were two well-known and much-loved pieces: Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Elgar's Enigma Variations, all conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
The afternoon continues with a recent recording of choral music by Joanna Marsh - Arabesques - made by The BBC Singers under Owain Park. And we end at the Maida Vale Studios, and a further concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrei Feher, with the Divertimento from Stravinsky's "The Fairy's Kiss". 2.00pm
Huang Ruo: Folk Songs for Orchestra (world premiere of complete set)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Edward Elgar: Variations on an original theme "Enigma", Op.36 BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor 3.40pm
Joanna Marsh: Arabesques The BBC Singers
Owain Park, conductor 4.00pm
Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrei Feher, conductor Music by Huang Ruo, Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Stravinsky from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour | 20191022 | | Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.2 and Mahler's 4th Symphony from the 2019 Edinburgh International Festival, plus more choral music by Joanna Marsh from The BBC Singers, and a further concert given at Maida Vale Studios by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring Louise Farrenc's Overture No.1, Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor and Faure's Pelleas et Melisande. Presented by Kate Molleson. Continuing with recordings taken from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent touring activities, today we hear Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.2 with soloist Kirill Gerstein, and Mahler's Symphony No.4 with soprano Christina Gansch, given at a concert at Edinburgh's Usher Hall as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival.
The afternoon continues with another recording of choral music by Joanna Marsh - Weighing the Earth - made by the BBC Singers under conductor Owain Park.
And we end the programme with a recent concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios in London, including the dramatic Overture No.1 by Louise Farrenc, Grieg's much-loved Piano Concerto in A minor with soloist Elizabeth Brauss, and Faure's intensely romantic Pelleas et Melisande, all conducted by Francois Leleux. 2.00pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2 in F major, Op.102
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major Kirill Gerstein, piano
Christina Gansch, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor 3.25pm
Joanna Marsh: Weighing the Earth BBC Singers
Owain Park, conductor 3.30pm
Louise Farrenc - Overture No.1, Op.23
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Gabriel Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Elizabeth Brauss, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Francois Leleux, conductor Shostakovich and Mahler from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour In Spain | 20181121 | | Another concert from Spain today as we continue the series of recordings recently made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra abroad on tour. From the Kursaal Auditorio in San Sebastián, Sibelius Suite Scenes historiques No. 1, followed by the Peacock Tales by Hillborg and Debussy's First Rhapsody, with clarinettist Martin Fröst as soloist, and the orchestra Chief Conductor, Sakari Oramo, at the helm. The programme continues in Britain with the orchestra performing more Sibelius, his Symphony No. 2, recorded earlier this year at the Barbican Centre, in London. Presented by Penny Gore 14.00
Sibelius: Scènes historiques Suite No.1 Hillborg: Peacock Tales Debussy: First Rhapsody Martin Fröst (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (Conductor) 14.45
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 The BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Spain with music by Sibelius, Hillborg and Debussy. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky And Shostakovich | 20190624 | | A recently discovered funeral song by Stravinsky opens this all-Russian concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, recorded last month at London's Barbican Hall. Stravinsky wrote it in tribute to his friend and teacher Rimsky-Korsakov and it's a musical depiction of laying a floral tribute on the grave. The newly-appointed leader of the orchestra, Igor Yuzefovich, is the soloist in Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto and the concerts closes with a thrilling performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Bassoon Julie Price joins Michael Collins in Richard Strauss's Concertino and we've the first of this week's pieces from the International Rostrum of Composers which, since its foundation in 1955, has launched many of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries from Henri Dutilleux and Hans-Werner Henze to Henryk Górecki and Dobrinka Tabakova. Jenny Hettne is a Swedish composer who places her clearest focus on the exploration of sound and timbre. In her piece Whirli(gigue) she achieves a subtle orchestral sound poetry that channels the world of electroacoustic music.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Stravinsky: Funeral Song Op. 5
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Igor Yuzefovich (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c.3.30pm
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 2 Op. 72a
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c.3.45pm
Richard Strauss: Duet Concertino
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Julie Price (bassoon)
Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra c.4.00pm
Jenny Hettne: Whirli(gigue)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor) c.4.10pm
Szymanowski: Harnasie
Rob Murray (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) A recent concert of Russian music kicks off this week featuring the BBCSO and BBC Singers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Bbc Symphony Orchestra: Yiu, Shostakovich And Saariaho | 20190628 | | Raymond Yiu's musical love letter to London opens this afternoon's concert in which the Hong Kong-born young composer quotes Elgar's Cockaigne Overture and skilfully blends popular style with symphonic scope. Martin Owen becomes the third BBC SO section principal to step into the spotlight this week, joining tenor Anthony Gregory in Britten's nocturnal song-cycle, and former BBC SO Principal Guest Conductor David Robertson continues this season's series of Shostakovich symphonies with the First. Written while the composer was still a student, its precocious brilliance is tempered by a sense of darkness and foreboding.
This week's Our Classical Century piece is Graal théâtre (Grail Theatre) by the celebrated Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho which, writes the composer, "expresses the tension between the efforts of the composer when writing music and the theatrical aspect of performance". It's dedicated to the soloist in this performance, Gidon Kremer.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Raymond Yiu: The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Anthony Gregory (tenor)
Martin Owen (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson (conductor)
Recorded in May at the Barbican Hall, London c.3.15pm
Our Classical Century
Kaija Saariaho: Graal théâtre - concerto for violin and orchestra
Gidon Kremer (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen c.3.45pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Raymond Yiu's love letter to London, young Shostakovich and Saariaho's Graal theatre. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Berg, Brahms And Honegger | 20190708 | | Throughout the week we'll be featuring performances by one of the most celebrated orchestras in Switzerland, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. We start this afternoon with its Music and Artistic Director since January 2017 at the helm. It's the British conductor Jonathan Nott, who takes to the rostrum in a concert including Berg's Lyric Suite; then they're joined by contralto Gerhild Romberger and the choir of the Zurich Sing-Akademie, in the first of two pieces by Johannes Brahms, starting with his Alto Rhapsody, followed then by his Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nicholas Angelich as soloist. The afternoon continues with pieces from another concert conducted by Nott including Honegger's Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgical', James MacMillan's Trombone Concerto, with Jörgen van Rijen as soloist, and finally, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The pianist in the latter is Lucas Debargue.
Also, throughout the whole week there'll be a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Berg: Lyric Suite
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major , Op.83
Gerhild Romberger, contralto
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Zurich Sing-Akademie
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott , conductor 3.25pm
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (‘Liturgical')
James MacMillan: Trombone Concerto
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Jörgen van Rijen, trombone
Lucas Debargue, piano
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott , conductor 4.40pm - New Music Biennial
Edmund Finnis: The Centre Is Everywhere
Manchester Collective Jonathan Nott conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Throughout the week we'll be featuring performances by one of the most celebrated orchestras in Switzerland, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. We start this afternoon with its Music and Artistic Director since January 2017 at the helm. It's the British conductor Jonathan Nott, who takes to the rostrum in a concert including Berg's Lyric Suite; then they're joined by contralto Gerhild Romberger and the choir of the Zurich Sing-Akademie, in the first of two pieces by Johannes Brahms, starting with his Alto Rhapsody, followed then by his Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nicholas Angelich as soloist. The afternoon continues with pieces from another concert conducted by Nott including Honegger's Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgical', James MacMillan's Trombone Concerto, with Jörgen van Rijen as soloist, and finally, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The pianist in the latter is Lucas Debargue.
Also, throughout the whole week there'll be a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Berg: Lyric Suite
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major , Op.83
Gerhild Romberger, contralto
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Zurich Sing-Akademie
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott , conductor 3.25pm
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (‘Liturgical')
James MacMillan: Trombone Concerto
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Jörgen van Rijen, trombone
Lucas Debargue, piano
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott , conductor Jonathan Nott conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra. |
| Bizet, Ravel, Saariaho And Mahler From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin | 20191001 | | Tom McKinney continues a week of concerts from the RTE National Symphony Orchestra's 2018/19 season in Dublin. Estonian conductor Mihhail Gerts makes his debut with the orchestra in an all French programme of Bizet and Ravel. Under Ilan Volkov Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku performs 'D'om le vrai sens' which Kaija Saariaho wrote especially for him in 2009. It was inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn, a series of six Medieval tapestries. Each one depicts the five senses and an ambiguous ‘sixth sense' The movements of the work are titled accordingly: L'Ouïe (Hearing), La Vue (Sight), Le Toucher (Touch), L'Odorat (Smell), Le Goût (Taste) and A mon seul Désir (To my only desire). Volkov brings the afternoon to a close with Mahler's enigmatic and forward looking Symphony No 7 in E minor. 2.00pm
Ravel: Bolero
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites No 1 & 2
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Mihhail Gerts, conductor 2.55pm
Saariaho: D'om le vrai sens
Kari Kriikku, clarinet
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor 3.30pm
Mahler: Symphony No 7 in E minor
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor Music by Bizet, Ravel, Saariaho and Mahler performed by the RTE Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171108 | | 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
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite - Overture
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43, for piano and orchestra
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op 55
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor). Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic perform music by Vaughan Williams and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171110 | | 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
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest [Burya] - symphonic fantasia, Op 18
Elgar: Sea pictures, Op 37
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathétique), Op 74
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 3.35pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C major (Leningrad), Op 60
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor). BBC Scottish SO and Martyn Brabbins perform Tchaikovsky and Elgar, with Karen Cargill. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171113 | | 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
Shostakovich: Symphony No.1; Symphony No.15
Dresden Staatskapelle
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) 3.35pm
Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Arie van Beck (conductor) 4.20pm
Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G, Op. 61 ('Mozartiana')
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Arie van Beck (conductor). Verity Sharp introduces Rozhdestvensky conducting Symphonies Nos 1 & 15 by Shostakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171114 | | 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
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5, 'Emperor'
Shostakovich: Symphony no.5
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
David Afkam (conductor) 3.30pm
Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Juraj Valcuha 4.05pm
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Swedish RSO
Juraj Valcuha. Verity Sharp introduces David Afkam conducting Shostakovich's powerful 5th Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171115 | | 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
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 'Classical'; Violin Concerto No 1
Mozart: Symphony No 41 'Jupiter'
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Markus Poschner (conductor). Verity Sharp introduces performances of Prokofiev's 1st Symphony and 1st Violin Concerto. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture | 20171117 | | 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
Sibelius: Valse triste
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Shostakovich: Symphony No.10
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
David Afkam (conductor) 3.25pm
Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor
Maria Milstein (violin)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor) 3.45pm
Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Arie van Beck (conductor) 4.30pm
BBC Children in Need 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
BBCSO
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor) Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg arr. John Barber: Somewhere over the rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (world premiere)
Kamarra (violin solo)
BBCSO
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor) Shermann Brothers arr Jeffes/Rossiter: Children in Need Sherman Medley (world premiere)
Joss (baritone solo)
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor) ABBA arr Jeffes/Rossiter: ABBA-DABBA-DOO
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor) Sly and the Family Stone arr John Barber : Everyday People
Music Action International Everyday People Group
Merit Ariane Stephanos (conductor)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor). Afternoon Concert finishes the Russian-themed week with Shostakovich's 10th Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture - Bbc Symphony Orchestra / Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra | 20171106 | | 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
Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major for string orchestra, Op.48
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, Op.75
Taneyev: The Oresteia - concert overture, Op.6
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op.32
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor) 3.35pm
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra, Op.47
Doric String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.50pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905), Op.103
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Litton (conductor). Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO in music by Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture; Live From Lenin's London Office | 20171107 | | 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
Evgenia Denisova (soprano)
Alina Miyshkina (mezzo-soprano)
Nizhny Novgorod Chamber Chorus
Orpheus Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sergei Kondrashev. Tom Service hosts an afternoon of Russian music to explore the legacy of the past century. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180507 | | 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
Mozart: Piano Concerto in C, K503
Mahler: Symphony No 9
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Sergei Babayan, piano
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor (Mozart)
Daniel Harding, conductor (Mahler) 4.00 pm
Bizet: Carmen, Prelude
Bizet: L'arlesienne, suites nos 1 & 2
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor. Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Mahler and Bizet. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180509 | | 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
Copland: El Salon Mexico
Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
Artie Shaw: Clarinet Concerto
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (extracts)
Martin Frost, clarinet
Verbier Festival Orchestra,
Joshua Weilerstein. Jonathan Swain presents music by Copland, Lutoslawski and Prokofiev. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland | 20180511 | | 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
Glazunov: 'From the Middle Ages', Op 79 (Prelude)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35; Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
Janine Jansen, violin
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor 3.30 pm
Mancini: Sonata No 14 in G minor, for recorder, two violins, viola and continuo
Dieupart: Recorder Concerto in A minor
Opera arias by Fiore, Torri, Gasparini and Hasse
Nuria Rial, soprano
Maurice Steger, recorder
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Stefano Barneschi, conductor. Jonathan Swain with orchestral showstoppers by Tchaikovsky and rare baroque pieces. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals | 20180508 | | 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
Bruckner orch. Skrowaczewski: Adagio (String Quintet)
Catalani: Mass in E minor
Elena Rossi, soprano
Alessandra Volpe, contralto
Derek Taylor, tenor
Levente Pall, bass
Feldkirch Chamber Chorus
Prague Philharmonic Chorus
St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra
Otto Tausk, conductor 2.55 pm
Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata
Lekeu: Adagio, Op.3
Turina: Escena andaluza, Op.7
Chausson: Concert, Op.21
Ernen Festival Ensemble 4.25 pm
Opera arias by Albinoni, Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Vinci
Nuria Rial, soprano
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Stefano Barneschi, conductor. Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner and Catalani, as well as baroque opera arias. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals | 20180510 | | 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 & Gabrieli: Venetian Vespers
La Cetra
Andrea Marcon, director 3.40pm
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for two cellos, RV. 531
Dvorak: Waldesruh', Op. 68; Rondo, Op. 94
Schoeck: Cello Concerto, Op.61
Thomas & Patrick Demenga, cellos
Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra
Philippe Bach, conductor. Jonathan Swain presents a Vespers service compiled from music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: Double Acts | 20190705 | | Adrian Scarborough presents a concert recorded in March at the Royal Festival Hall in London on the subject of Double Acts – famous duos and couples – featuring stars of the West End stage singers Maria Friedman and her husband Adrian Der Gregorian Daring duos, comedy couples and popular pairs - this gem of a concert, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and its chief guest conductor Keith Lockhart, invites you to get swept up in the love, heartbreak and comedy that some of the best loved duos have to offer Olivier award-winning singer/actors Maria Friedman and Adrian der Gregorian star in this programme celebrating the best double acts and romances from musicals, theatre, film and beyond! 2.00pm
Berlioz: Overture: Beatrice & Benedict
Berlin: Anything You Can Do; The Girl That I Marry; I Got Lost In His Arms; They Say It's Wonderful (from Annie Get Your Gun)
Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet
Arnold/Price: Sherlock Suite
Sondheim: A Little Priest (from Sweeney Todd)
Gary Carpenter: Fred & Ginger
Lerner & Loewe: I remember it well (from Gigi)
Loesser: Sue Me (from Guys & Dolls)
Williams: Suite for Cello & Orchestra (from Memoirs of a Geisha)
Steiner/Hupfeld: Suite from Casablanca
Gershwin They Can't Take That Away; The Man I Love; Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Porter: You're The Top (from Anything Goes)
Maria Friedman & Adrian Der Gregorian (singers)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor) 3.45pm
Our Classical Century
Birtwistle: Panic
John Harle (saxophone)
Paul Clarvis (drums)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor) A concert celebrating double acts featuring Maria Friedman and Adrian Der Gregorian. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Adrian Scarborough presents a concert recorded in March at the Royal Festival Hall in London on the subject of Double Acts – famous duos and couples – featuring stars of the West End stage singers Maria Friedman and her husband Adrian Der Gregorian 3.45pm
Our Classical Century
Birtwistle: Panic
John Harle (saxophone)
Paul Clarvis (drums)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor) |
| Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: English Music Festival | 20190702 | | Kate Molleson presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert recorded last month at the 13th annual English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames. By orchestrating or completing neglected works by British composers, conductor Martin Yates has brought several world premiere performances to the festival over the years and this concert includes four. 2.00pm
Lord Berners (orch Yates): Portsmouth Point (world premiere)
Arnold: Serenade for small orchestra
Stanford: Violin Concerto in D (world premiere)
Vaughan Williams (orch Yates): The Blue Bird (world premiere)
Delius: A Song before Sunrise
Robin Milford: Symphony No.2 (world premiere)
Sergey Levitin (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor) 3.55pm
Braunfels: Hebridean Dances, Op.70
Piers Lane (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert recorded last month at the English Music Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: Orange | 20190701 | | This BBC Concert Orchestra performance, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London last month, was presented on stage by artist Lachlan Goudie, and features pieces connected with the colour orange. 2.00pm
Delius: Florida Suite: Daybreak
Jonathan Dove: Sunshine (London premiere)
De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Grieg: Peer Gynt: Morning
Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orange
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges: Symphonic Suite
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor) 3.50pm
Braunfels: Orchestral Suite in E minor, Op.48
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music associated with the colour orange. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: The Light Of The World | 20190704 | | An outstanding cast joins the BBC Concert Orchestra in a recent, highly acclaimed recording of the rarely heard Sullivan oratorio The Light of the World. Commissioned for and first produced at the Birmingham Musical Festival of 1873, The Light of the World is Arthur Sullivan's great oratorio on the life of Christ. Although regularly performed during the composer's lifetime, changing fashions gradually condemned the work to obscurity. Occasional revivals have failed to make the case for it, primarily because it was not understood that The Light of the World is essentially a dramatic work, rather than a purely religious one. Presented by Kate Molleson. 2.00pm
Sullivan: The Light of the World
Natalya Romaniw (Mary, Mother of Jesus)
Eleanor Dennis (Mary Magdalene/Martha)
Kitty Whately (An Angel)
Robert Murray (A Disciple/Nicodemus)
Ben McAteer (Jesus)
Neal Davies (A Ruler/A Pharisee/A Shepherd)
Kinder Children's Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews (conductor) Image © Jorge Cocco Santángelo The BBC Concert Orchestra in Sullivan's rarely heard oratorio The Light of the World. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180528 | | 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
Haydn: Symphony no. 8 in G major H.1.8 (Le Soir)
Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207
Mozart: Adagio in E major K.261 for violin and orchestra
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105
Rachel Podger (violin)
José Luis Vegara (oboe)
Alice Neary (cello)
Jaroslaw Augustyniak (bassoon)
BBC NOW
Rachel Podger (director) 3.30pm
Ittai Shapira: Sephardic Journeys (concerto for violin, cello and orchestra)
Ittai Shapira (violin)
Thomas Carroll (cello)
BBC NOW
Rumon Gamba (conductor) 4.00pm
John Joubert: Symphony No. 3 on themes from the opera "Jane Eyre" Op.178
BBC NOW
William Boughton (conductor) 4.35pm
Guto Puw: Camouflage [world premiere]
BBC NOW
Jac van Steen (conductor). BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Haydn, Mozart, John Joubert and Guto Puw. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180529 | | 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
Sibelius: King Kristian II: Suite
Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Sibelius: Finlandia
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E-flat major
Matthew Featherstone (flute)
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) 3.30pm
Hoddinott: Variants for Orchestra op. 47
BBC NOW
Jac van Steen (conductor) 3.55pm
Mark Bowden: Three interludes [world premiere]
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) 4.05pm
Ittai Shapira: Midnight's Children (for clarinet, violin and orchestra)
Ittai Shapira (violin)
Robert Plane (clarinet)
BBC NOW
Rumon Gamba (conductor) 4.30pm
Mared Emlyn: Porthor (whistling Sands)
Ian Lawson: High Aldons
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor). BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Sibelius, Nielsen and Hoddinott. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20180601 | | 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
Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro K.492
Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder, Av. 150
Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E minor Op.98
Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
BBC NOW
Otto Tausk (conductor) 3.10pm
Simon Holt: St Vitus in the Kettle
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) 3.20pm
B Tommy Andersson Violin Concerto (Homage to Michelangelo)
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) 3.45pm
Messiaen Le Tombeau resplendissant
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) 4.00pm
John Joubert: Piano Concerto Op. 25
Martin Jones (piano)
BBC NOW
William Boughton (conductor) 4.30pm
Sarah Lianne Lewis: Is there no seeker of dreams
BBC NOW
Jac van Steen (conductor) 4.40pm
Luciano Williamson: Electric Bagatelle
BBC NOW
B Tommy Andersson (conductor). BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Strauss, Brahms and B Tommy Andersson. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Orchestras | 20201208 | | Natasha Riordan presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra, live from Maida Vale Studios. Robin Holloway/Schumann: Canonic Studies
Copland: Emily Dickinson Songs
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
BBC SO
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) 3.15: Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra Weir: Moon & Star
BBC Singers
BBC SO
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Brahms: Symphony No. 3
BBC SO
Sakari Oramo, conductor Helen Grime: Elegiac Inflections
BBC SO Wind 10tet
Ryan Wigglesworth John Adams: Harmonium
BBC Symphony Chorus
Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Edward Gardner (conductor) The BBC Symphony, live from Maida Vale Studios, London. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic | 20200316 | | Elgar, Rachmaninov and James MacMillan from the BBC Philharmonic including Elgar's magnificent Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff and the last of Rachmaninov's symphonies. John Storgards leads the orchestra in Rachmaninov's Symphony no.3 - a late work, lush and romantic, that remains nostalgic for the romanticism in which the composer grew up, yet with experimental touches such as the use of the saxophone in the orchestral texture Later, Martyn Brabbins conducts the fourth symphony by Scottish composer James MacMillan, who wrote that he was interested "in the interplay of different types of material, following upon a fascination with music as ritual that has stretched from Monteverdi in the early 17th century through to Boulez and Birtwistle in the present day." Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Elgar
Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov
Symphony no.3
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 3.30pm
Coates
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor 3.40pm
MacMillan
Symphony no.4
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins, conductor Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic | 20200317 | | Works by Rudi Stephan and Steve Elcock, live from MediaCityUK, Salford, plus music by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich. Composer Rudi Stephan's career was cut brutally short aged 28: a casualty of World War I. Considered the most promising German composer of his generation, today we hear his Music for Orchestra (1912) which searches for new paths in expressionist colours There's also music by Chesterfield-born Steve Elcock, whose work was first performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2009. Today, the orchestra give the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony – ‘A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time'. Of its title, he says: “I will only say that you must make of it what you can ? The one-movement piece explores a move away from serial music to the magnetic pull of tonality Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Stephan
Music for Orchestra (1912)
Elcock
Symphony no.4 "A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time" (world premiere)
Sarah Walker, presenter
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann, conductor 2.50pm
Vaughan Williams (arr. David Childs & Rodney Newton)
Concerto for Tenor Tuba & Orchestra
David Childs, tenor tuba
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor 3.00pm
Vivaldi (arr. Jacob Reuven)
Summer (The Four Seasons)
Jacob Reuven (mandolin)
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Welber, conductor/harpsichord 3.10pm
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto no.1
Denis Kozhukhin, piano
BBC Philharmonic
Joana Carneiro, conductor 3.30pm
Shostakovich
Symphony no.11 "The Year 1905"
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor Works by Rudi Stephan, Steve Elcock, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, live from Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras There's also music by Chesterfield-born Steve Elcock, whose work was first performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2009. Today, the orchestra give the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony – ‘A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time'. Of its title, he says: “I will only say that you must make of it what you can”. The one-movement piece explores a move away from serial music to the magnetic pull of tonality |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic | 20200318 | | Works by young British composer Anna Clyne, alongside Berlioz and the timeless The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams Anna Clyne, one of Britain's most exciting young composers, describes Night Ferry as ‘music of voyages, from stormy darkness to enchanted worlds'. True, but that hardly captures the thrilling turbulence of the ride it takes into uncharted waters Listen closely and you might hear echoes of the similarly restless Symphonie fantastique – but in truth Berlioz's utterly wild work, written under the twin influences of opium and unrequited love, is like nothing else In between, Vaughan Williams's beloved classic of the English rural springtime injects a welcome note of tranquillity Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Clyne
Night Ferry
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Jennifer Pike, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor Anna Clyne, Vaughan Williams and Berlioz Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic | 20200320 | | Vassily Sinaisky conducts Szymanowski's gripping Second Violin Concerto before taking on another Eastern European masterpiece from between the wars. Nikolay Myaskovsky was a rebel in a time and place when rebellion was a dangerous game – post-revolutionary Russia, where a word out of turn could leave you silenced for good. His epic Sixth Symphony is deeply political and intensely personal, inspired by both the Revolution and the deaths of his father and aunt Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Rimsky-Korsakov
Introduction and Wedding Procession (‘The Golden Cockerel')
Szymanowski
Violin Concerto no.2
Myaskovsky
Symphony no.6
Lisa Fertschman, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor 3.30pm
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no.6
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor Rimsky-Korsakov, Szymanowski, Myaskovsky and Vaughan Williams Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic - Bartok, Prokofiev, Reeves | 20191106 | | Live from MediaCityUK, Salford, Simone Young conducts a varied programme of 20th and 21st century music Between exciting, vigorous works by Bartok and Prokofiev comes a very special world premiere. Light Speed with Time Canons by Camden Reeves, Professor of Music at The University of Manchester, celebrates the centenary of the experimental proof for Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Bartok
Romanian folk dances; Hungarian Peasant songs
Camden Reeves
Light speed with time canons [world premiere performance]
Prokofiev
Suite from ‘The Gambler'
BBC Philharmonic
Simone Young, conductor Live from Salford, works by Bartok, Prokofiev and a world premiere by Camden Reeves. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic - Britten, Prokofiev, Bruckner, Antheil | 20191108 | | The BBC Philharmonic in symphonies by Britten and Bruckner, a concerto by Prokofiev, and more this week from "Bad Boy of Music" George Antheil John Storgards leads the orchestra in Britten's reworking of his own younger self, his so-called "Simple" Symphony. The concert, recorded last month on the orchestra's tour in Utrecht, also features Bruckner's sixth symphony and the second of Prokofiev's two concertos for violin played by Arabella Steinbacher And there's more from this week's featured composer, George Antheil - two of his symphonies Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Britten
Simple Symphony
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto no.2
Bruckner
Symphony no.6
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 3.45
Antheil
Symphony no.5 "Joyous"; Symphony no.6 "After Delacroix"
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor Music by Britten, Prokofiev, Bruckner and 'Bad Boy of Music' George Antheil Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic - Saint-saens, Mahler, Clyne, Saariaho, Antheil | 20191105 | | A cello concerto by Saint-Saens and Mahler's fifth symphony, plus recent works by Anna Clyne and Kaija Saariaho, as well as more this week from "Bad Boy of Music", George Antheil. Today's featured soloists are former BBC New Generation Artist, cellist Laura van der Heijden and Norwegian violinist Peter Herresthal. Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Anna Clyne
Night Ferry
Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto no.1
Mahler
Symphony no.5
Laura van der Heijden, cello
BBC Philharmonic
Joana Carneiro, conductor 3.45pm
Antheil
Symphony no.3 "American"; The Golden Bird - Chinoiserie
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 4.15pm
Saariaho
Graal Theatre
Peter Herresthal, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot, conductor Works by Saint-Saens and Mahler, plus recent works by Anna Clyne and Kaija Saariaho. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic - Schumann, Haydn, Sibelius, Antheil | 20191104 | | Schumann's third symphony, one of Haydn's cello concertos and Sibelius' unofficial Finnish national anthem, Finlandia. Plus the first of this week's look at American composer George Antheil, the so-called "Bad Boy of Music" Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Schumann
Symphony no.3 "Rhenish"
Haydn
Cello Concerto in D
Sibelius
Karelia Suite; Finlandia
Kian Soltani, cello
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 3.20pm
Goossens
By the Tarn
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor 3.25 pm
Antheil
Symphony no.1 :Zingareska"
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 4.00pm
Jeffrey Mumford
… with defuse echoes … softly spreading [world premiere performance]
BBC Philharmonic
Joana Carneiro, conductor Schumann, Haydn and Sibelius plus George Antheil, 'the 'Bad Boy of Music'. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1/4) | 20190422 | | This afternoon's complete concert brings together three composers with an influence of Jewish music alongside the renowned Klezmer band, She'Koyokh. It includes Bernstein's Candide Overture and a rare chance to hear Schelomo, the 'Hebrew rhapsody' by Ernest Bloch in which the orchestra is joined by cellist Jian Wang. Mahler's First Symphony is preceded by a performance of Jewish klezmer folk music to explore what resonances emerge.
Presented by Hannah French.2.00pm
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Bloch: Schelomo
Paul Moylan/She'Koyokh: Klez'Mahler
Mahler: Symphony no.1
Jian Wang (cello)
She'Koyokh (klezmer group)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 3.35pm
Hosokawa: Meditation to the victims of Tsunami (3.11)
Fujikura: Piano Concerto no.3
Yu Kosuge (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebriech (conductor) 4.10
Poulenc: Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Tung-Chieh Chuang (conductor) Thomas Dausgaard conducts music inspired by Judaism: Bernstein, Bloch and Mahler Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2/4) | 20190423 | | Ilan Volkov conducts CPE Bach and Bruckner, and is joined by Carolin Widmann in Stravinsky's spiky violin concerto The theme of Bruckner's 7th Symphony came to him in a dream, while the theme of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto came to him at dinner - we don't know where CPE Bach thought up his Symphony in Eb, but his music, which opens this concert, was pivotal in the development of the classical forms that Stravinsky would later draw on in his so-called 'Neoclassical' works. Nevertheless, it is the music of his father JS Bach which is most resonant in Stravinsky's 1931 Violin Concerto: a work almost entirely derived from a single chord, scribbled on a napkin. The BBC SSO, and conductor Ilan Volkov, are joined by the sparky virtuoso Carolin Widmann to play it. In contrast to the concision of these two composers' music stands Bruckner's 7th Symphony. It is massively more expansive in length but still owes a great deal to CPE Bach's 18th century formal innovations. Written in the 1880s it won international recognition for its composer. The folk hero Kullervo was the inspiration behind one of Jean Sibelius' earliest masterpieces, a powerful national statement for a country struggling to overthrow Russian rule. This massive musical hybrid - part cantata, part symphony, part suite - is a vivid and thrilling work, richly melodic but looking ahead to modernism. Presented by Hannah French 2.00pm
CPE Bach: Symphony in E flat
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
Bruckner: Symphony no.7
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 3.40pm
Sibelius: Kullervo
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Lund Male Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (3/4) | 20190424 | | John Wilson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a varied programme with an American theme. Bernstein's celebration of New York's razzle-dazzle contrasts with Samuel Barber's beautiful, nostalgic evocation of small-town simplicity. Although it was written during his sojourn in Switzerland, Sergei Rachmaninov arrived in America to settle just in time to attend final rehearsals of his third, and what was to be his final, symphony.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.2.00pm
Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from 'On The Town'
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3
Elizabeth Reiter (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) John Wilson conducts music by Bernstein, Barber and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (4/4) | 20190426 | | Thomas Dausgaard in a Spanish-themed concert of well-loved works by Debussy, Falla and Ravel. From an impressionistic era of composition, come the sounds of Spain in three composers highly influenced by the country. Debussy takes us through the streets and paths, the fragrant nights and to the morning festivals. Ravel, whose mother was Basque, had natural affinity with Spain and set four different aspects of Spanish life in the Rapsodie espagnole and in the 'morning after'! Falla painted a picture of his home country in a suite from his ballet and also in his enchanting nocturnes for piano played by the young Spanish virtuoso – Javier Perianes Presented by Fiona Talkington 2.00pm
Debussy: Images
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat - Suite No 2
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Javier Perianes (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 1535
Knussen: Symphony No 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen Thomas Dausgaard conducts a Spanish-themed concert of works by Debussy, Falla and Ravel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Philharmonic | 20190108 | | A live invitation concert from MediaCityUK, Salford, in which John Wilson conducts a wide-ranging programme of orchestral works by Eric Coates. For five decades Coates' music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes This programme includes Coates's Dancing Nights, written for Eastbourne's 1931 music festival – it's a delightfully carefree piece that seems to sing of the seaside. We also hear Coates's popular London Suite – completed in 1933 when the composer was 47. Its three movements take us on a musical journey through Covent Garden, Westminster and Knightsbridge Followed by a flute concerto by Lotta Wennakoski and, in its 90th year, the BBC Symphony Chorus joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams' epic Sea Symphony 2.00pm
Eric Coates: Overture 'The Merrymakers'; The Jester at the Wedding Suite; Dancing Nights, Ballad for strings; Symphonic Rhapsody no.2; London Everyday Suite
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (Conductor) 3.20pm
Lotta Wennakoski: Soie - Concerto for flute and orchestra
Michael Cox (Flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (Conductor) 3.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.1 'Sea Symphony'
Elizabeth Llewellyn (Soprano)
Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (Conductor) 4.50pm
As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love The BBC Philharmonic, under John Wilson, performs music by Eric Coates live from Salford Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190107 | | Royal cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason dazzles in Elgar's autumnal concerto, while the BBC Singers mix Portuguese polyphony with jazz trumpet improvisation Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Bliss: Suite from Checkmate
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.3 'Pastoral'
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (Cello)
Elizabeth Watts (Soprano)
Martyn Brabbins (Conductor) 3.40pm
Duarte Lobo: Missa pro defunctis for 8 voices (with jazz trumpet improvisation)
Steve Martland: Sea Songs
Thomas Tallis: Nine Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter (with jazz trumpet improvisation)
Tom Gardner (Trumpet)
BBC Singers
James Morgan (Conductor) 4.30pm
As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love 4.40pm
Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture - Proud Thames
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (Conductor) Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Elgar's Cello Concerto, plus music by Bliss, Lobo and Martland Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190109 | | The BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded at London's Barbican Hall last month in raucous Strauss, luscious Berg and Shostakovich's best-loved work, his "Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism" Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Berg: Seven Early Songs
Shostakovich: Symphony no.5
Dorothea Röschmann (Soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Payare (Conductor) 3.25pm
As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Strauss, Berg and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190111 | | An Advent concert of seasonal British choral works by Arnold Bax and Cheryl Frances-Hoad recorded in November. Glowing with textural interest and intensity, as though lit from within, Frances-Hoad's choral writing looks to the musical past for music that is very much of the present. Her carols and motets take us from festive rejoicing, in the exuberant Gaude et Laetare, to rapt wonder in There is no Rose. Bax – Master of the King's Music under George VI – also draws on the carol's medieval origins in his graceful I Sing of A Maiden and This Worldes Joie Followed by a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour last year in Spain: three twentieth century masterpieces from either side of the Iron Curtain conducted by Sakari Oramo Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Gaude et Laetare
Arnold Bax: I Sing Of A Maiden
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: This time a child is born
Arnold Bax: This Worldes Joie
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: From the Beginning of the World; Floodlight, Starlight
Arnold Bax: Five Greek Folk Songs
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: There is no Rose
BBC Singers
Ben Palmer (Conductor) 2.45pm
Finzi: Nocturne
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (Conductor) 2.55pm
As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love 3.00pm
Wiren: Symphony no.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba(Conductor) 3.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 9
Copland: Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano
Prokofiev: Symphony no.6
Martin Fröst (Clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (Conductor) Advent works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax, plus Shostakovich, Copland and Prokofiev. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190211 | | British choral music from the BBC Singers followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's lushly romantic Pelleas und Melisande and Beethoven's violin concerto with soloist James Ehnes 2.00pm
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times (wp)
BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths (conductor) 2.50pm
Phyllis Tate: London Fields
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor) 3.05pm
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) British choral music followed by major works by Beethoven and Schoenberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190212 | | Major works by Brahms and Schumann, including the latter's cello concerto with soloist Steven Isserlis, followed by a recent mass setting by Julian Anderson 2.00pm
Richard Causton: Ik Zeg Nu (wp)
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony no.3
Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 3.30pm
Anderson: Heaven is shy of Earth
Susan Bickley (ms)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor) 4.10
Klami: The Cobbler on the Heath
Madetoja: Symphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Major works by Brahms and Schumann followed by a mass setting by Julian Anderson Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20190215 | | Symphonies by Minna Keal & Shostakovich (his so-called 'Leningrad'), as well as works by Kenneth Leighton and a new trombone concerto by Gavin Higgins 2.00pm
Vasks: Cantabile for strings
Higgins: Trombone Concerto
Helen Vollam (trombone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) 2.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 'Leningrad'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor) 3.45pm
Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Leighton: Mass
BBC Singers
Richard Pearce (organ)
Matthew Halls (conductor, Britten)
Paul Spicer (conductor, Leighton) 4.15pm
Keal: Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) Symphonies by Shostakovich and Minna Keal and works by Gavin Higgins and Kenneth Leighton. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Celebrating The Viola | 20200515 | | Closing this week of programmes celebrating the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, British composer/conductor Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers in a programme of contemporary choral music. Alongside his own works is music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Rhiannon Randle and Joanna Ward, and 'Song' by former BBC Singers composer in Association Gabriel Jackson.
This afternoon we shine a light on the BBC SO's Co-Principal Viola Caroline Harrison who's been a member of the orchestra for 30 years. We'll hear a sequence of BBC SO performances in which she performed. Firstly, at the Barbican in February 2015, Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for their Sibelius performances, played his tone poem The Oceanides in its 1914 Yale version. This is how the work was first heard at its premiere in America on Sibelius's one and only trip there, and it retains many interesting features that the composer removed in a later revision. Australian composer, viola player, and former BBC Symphony Orchestra Artist in Association Brett Dean was inspired by Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament to create a quirky work for twelve violas. The Beethoven is a letter full of despair written as the composer battled to come to terms with the onset of deafness. Brett Dean's Testament reimagines this experience and asks some of the players to tune their strings in unusual ways and not to put resin on their bows - to create a world of half-heard sounds and eerie pen-on-parchment scratchings. Thea Musgrave's 2002 Turbulent Landscapes is her Pictures at an Exhibition. Inspired by Turner paintings including Sunrise with Sea Monsters, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, and The Exile and the Rock Limpit (Napoleon), Musgrave takes your ears from one canvas to another in vivid orchestral sounds. And finally Prokofiev's Haydn-inspired symphony with all its classical grace is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.2pm
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Floodlight, starlight
Gabriel Jackson: Song (I gave upon you)
Paweł Łukaszewski: Like as the waves
Owain Park: For the fallen
Owain Park: The wings of the wind
Rhiannon Randle: On Life's dividing sea
Joby Talbot: The wishing tree
Joanna Ward: Brambles Fewer
BBC Singers
Owain Park, conductor c.2.30pm
Beat Furrer: Psalm
Dieter Schnebel: Motetus I
BBC Singers
James Weeks, conductor c.2.55pm
Sibelius: The Oceanides Op. 73 (1914 Yale Version)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor c.3.10pm
Brett Dean: Testament for 12 violas
BBC SO violas
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c.3.25pm
Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscapes
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor c.3.50pm
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor Contemporary music from the BBC Singers and favourite archive recordings from the BBC SO. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Cherubini's Medea From The Salzburg Festival | 20200423 | | Cherubini's opera Medea from the 2019 Salzburg Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Cherubini: Médée, opera in three acts
Presented by Hannah French. Elena Stikhina, (soprano), Médée
Pavel Černoch, (tenor), Jason
Vitalij Kowaljow, (bass), Créon
Rosa Feola, (soprano), Dirce
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano, Néris Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor) rec. Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
Salzburg Festival
30/07/2019 followed at approx. 4.10pm by more from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra James MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor) Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63
Baiba Skride, violin
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Cherubini's Medea from the Salzburg Festival. Cherubini: Médée, opera in three acts
Presented by Penny Gore. Elena Stikhina, (soprano), Médée
Pavel Černoch, (tenor), Jason
Vitalij Kowaljow, (bass), Créon
Rosa Feola, (soprano), Dirce
Alisa Kolosova, (mezzo-soprano), Néris followed at approx. 4.00pm by more from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra |
| Cherubini's Requiem | 20200605 | | Collegium 1704 perform Cherubini's Requiem and Kurpi\u0144ski's Te Deum. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Collegium 1704 perform Cherubini's Requiem and Kurpiński's Te Deum at the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Plus piano concertos by Hummel and Chopin. Presented by Georgia Mann. Cherubini: Requiem Mass no. 1 in C minor
Simona Houda-Šaturová, soprano
Helena Hozová, soprano
Pavla Radostová, soprano
Aneta Petrasová, contralto
Kamila Mazalová, contralto
Václav Čížek, tenor
Ondřej Holub, tenor
Tomás Šelc, bass
Lukáš Zeman, bass
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, conductor Hummel: Piano Concerto in F, op. posth.
Howard Shelley, conductor and period piano
Sinfonia Varsovia Kurpiński: Te Deum.
Simona Houda-Šaturová, soprano
Helena Hozová, soprano
Pavla Radostová, soprano
Aneta Petrasová, contralto
Kamila Mazalová, contralto
Václav Čížek, tenor
Ondřej Holub, tenor
Tomás Šelc, bass
Lukáš Zeman, bass
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, conductor Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op. 11
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley, conductor |
| Chopin And His Europe | 20190311 | | Performances from last year's Chopin and his Europe festival in Warsaw celebrating the music of Chopin and some of the composers who were inspired by his legacy, such as Debussy and Bizet The 2018 Chopin and his Europe festival opened with a programme of Penderecki, Debussy, Bizet and Chopin himself; this is followed by solo works played on the fortepiano by Alexei Lubimov, twentieth century discoveries by Tansman and Rathaus, and a fizzling fortepiano concerto by J C Bach 2.00pm
Penderecki: Polonez
Debussy: Rapsodie for saxophone & orchestra
Chopin: Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Bizet: Roma
Lukasz Dyczko, saxophone
Szymon Nehring, piano
Beethoven Academy Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor 3.40pm
Chopin: Ballade no.1 in G minor
Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano 3.50pm
Tansman: Polish Rhapsody
Rathaus: Piano Concerto
Yaara Tal, piano
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor 4.35
J C Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D
Tobias Koch, fortepiano
Concerto Koln
Gianluca Capuano, conductor Celebrating the music and legacy of Chopin, with works also by Debussy, Bizet and JC Bach Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Chopin And His Europe | 20190312 | | Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the music of Chopin and some of the composers who were inspired by his legacy, such as Hoffmann, Czerny and - in an eye-opening new arrangement - Beethoven's Ode to Joy Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture
Danzi: Fantasy on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' for clarinet & orchestra
Mozart: Symphony no.29 in A
Cramer: Keyboard Concerto no.8 in D minor*
Hoffmann: Symphony in E flat ‘Warsaw‘
Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet
Howard Shelley, fortepiano/conductor*
Concerto Koln
Gianluca Capuano, conductor 3.40pm
Chopin Ballade no.2 in F
Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano 3.50pm
Lortzing: Overture - Der Pole und sein Kind
Czerny: Haydn Variations
Beethoven/Cammaroto: Ode to Joy (arrangement of fourth movement of Symphony no.9 for fortepiano & orchestra)
Tobias Koch, fortepiano
Concerto Koln
Gianluca Capuano, conductor Celebrating the music and legacy of Chopin, with works also by Hoffmann and Czerny. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Chopin And His Europe | 20190313 | | Recorded at Warsaw's Chopin and his Europe festival last year, Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed here with some of his lesser-known violin concertos The serenata, written to celebrate the wedding of French king Louis XV and the Polish princess Maria Leszczyska in 1725, sees Glory (representing the French monarchy) and Hymen (the god of marriage) tunefully celebrating the regal nuptials 2.00pm
Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti (excerpts)
Vivaldi: Serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo‘, RV.687 interspersed with Vivaldi concertos: in C, RV.186; in F, RV.288; in B flat, RV.380
Vivica Genaux, Martina Belli (mezzos)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi,violin/conductor Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed with some of his concertos. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Chopin And His Europe | 20190315 | | Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Sibelius and Paderewski, a late-Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist who also served as Poland's prime minister. 2.00pm
Elgar: Polonia - symphonic prelude
Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor
Elgar: Piano Concerto (slow movement)
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
Garrick Ohlssohn, piano (Paderewski)
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano (Elgar)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gzregorz Nowak, conductor 3.55pm
Chopin Ballade no.4 in F minor
Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano 4.10pm
Paderewski: Overture
Sibelius: Symphony no.2
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor Celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Paderewski and Sibelius. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Chopin Plus | 20200601 | | The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Dvorak, Ravel, Schnittke and Mahler. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Concerts from orchestras from across the world: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra play music by Dvorak, Ravel, Schnittke and Mahler. Violinist Gidon Kremer joins them in Schnittke's Fourth Violin Concerto. Presented by Fiona Talkington. The first of a series of programmes this week featuring performances from the Poland, and featuring the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Dvořák: Vodník, The Water Goblin, op. 107
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose) (complete)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice
Jamie Phillips, conductor 2.55 p.m.
Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G
Gidon Kremer, violin
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice
Andrzej Borejko, conductor |
| Chopin Plus | 20200602 | | Highlights from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Highlights from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, featuring the Sinfonia Varsovia with pianists Piotr Alexewicz and Nelson Goerner. Plus Mozart from the Orchestra of the 18th Century. Presented by Georgia Mann. Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, op. 22
with Piotr Alexewicz, piano Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30
with Nelson Goerner, piano Berlioz: Harold in Italy, op. 16
Sinfonia Varsovia
Tatsuya Shimono, conductor 3.30 p.m.
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 ('Haffner'); Ch'io mi scordi di te, K.505; Abendempfindung an Laura, K. 523
Rosanne van Sandwijk, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra of the 18th Century Highlights from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. |
| Czech Philharmonic From Prague | 20191227 | | The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Schubert's Symohony No.3 and Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; and Mozart's “Prague” Symphony conducted by Thomas Netopil. From the Rudolfinum in Prague, Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert's 3rd Symphony, composed just after his 18th birthday; and Richard Strauss' musical reflection of his own, much-valued home-life – the Sinfonia Domestica. Then, the Czech Philharmonic is in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen for an all-Mozart concert, conducted by Thomas Netopil. They begin with the ballet music from “Idomeneo”, before welcoming pianist Leif Ove Andsnes to play Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, and ending with a tribute to their home town – the Symphony No.38, written in Prague in 1786. Presented by Hannah French. 2.00pm
Franz Schubert: Symphony No.3 in D
Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor 3.05pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet music from “Idomeneo”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.38 in D, k.504 “Prague” Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Netopil, conductor With music by Mozart, Schubert and Richard Strauss. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Schubert's Symohony No.3 and Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; and Mozart's “Prague ? Symphony conducted by Thomas Netopil. Then, the Czech Philharmonic is in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen for an all-Mozart concert, conducted by Thomas Netopil. They begin with the ballet music from “Idomeneo ?, before welcoming pianist Leif Ove Andsnes to play Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, and ending with a tribute to their home town – the Symphony No.38, written in Prague in 1786. 3.05pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet music from “Idomeneo ?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.38 in D, k.504 “Prague ? |
| Dalia's Mix Tape - Bbc Symphony Orchestra 90th Birthday Celebration | 20201022 | | Petroc Trelawny presents a mixture of live and pre-recorded music given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with its Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, from its home at the Maida Vale studios, marking its 90th birthday.
Dalia's Live Mixtape is inspired by the BBC SO's tour to Scandinavia in 1956, and offers a time-travel through Finnish and British music. Dalia writes: “The time travel idea was inspired by 90 years of history and the amazing accomplishments of the orchestra, but as well, by the title of Sibelius's Scenes Historiques. We're celebrating the history of BBCSO, the history of British music and the close friendship the UK has with Finnish music. See how a unique combination of music communicates with us, how pieces communicate with each other across time, and what kind of story they tell us.”Rautavaara: Into the heart of light Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 1. Metsästys (The Chase) Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 2. Minnelaulu (The Minnesong/Love Song) Judith Weir: Still, Glowing Oliver Knussen:...upon one note: Fantasia After Purcell Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 3. Nostosillalla (On the Drawbridge) From 1500 George Walker: Lyric for Strings Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring
Roderick Williams (Baritone) Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Lotta Wennäkoski: Hava BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska. And to conclude the afternoon, from the archive.... BBC SO's 80th Birthday Concert in 2010
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska live from Maida Vale. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Dances With Witches | 20191202 | | BBC Philharmonic in concert: music by Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Schumann. Featuring Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and a cannibalistic Russian witch conjured up by Liadov. Presented by Penny Gore Liadov: Baba-Yaga
Chausson: Poeme
with Aleksey Semenenko (violin)
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Antony Hermus 2.55pm
Vaughan Williams: Harnham Down
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Rumon Gamba 3.05pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K414
Schoenberg: Five Pieces
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (piano/conductor) 3.50pm
Martinů: Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Jac van Steen The first of a series broadcast in the week 2-6 December 2019 featuring the BBC Philharmonic in concert, including their brand-new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber - not just conducting but also playing the piano. A concert performance by the BBC Philharmonic of Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Debussy, Ravel, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20190116 | | French masterpieces from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard recorded at Glasgow City Halls. Pianist Joaquin Achucarro joins for a performance of Ravel's Concert for the Left Hand. Presented by Tom McKinney 2.00pm
Debussy – Nocturnes
Ravel – Concerto for piano (left hand) & orchestra in D major
Debussy – Clair de Lune (encore)
Joaquin Achucarro (piano)
Debussy – Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Debussy – La Mer
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
recorded at Glasgow City Halls BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Thomas Dausgaard, plays music by Debussy and Ravel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Decadence And Melodrama: Schreker's The Stigmatized | 20200213 | | Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, from Hanover
First performed in 1918 Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, 'The stigmatized' earned him a reputation as one of Germany's leading composers, on a par with Richard Strauss. The setting may be Renaissance Genoa, but this isn't the romanticized vision of the past of Wagner or Hans Pfitzner but rather a psychological drama rooted in the writings of Sigmund Freud. The score and the libretto – by Schreker himself – are opulent, melodramatic and decadent and make huge demands on the enormous orchestra.
The bourgeoisie of the city of Genoa is in turmoil: young women have been disappearing and there is something to fear. A clique of eight noblemen have been living out their desires on the island of Elysium. Alviano Salvago has made this island a haven of absolute beauty and harmony - in compensation for his own physical ugliness. When Alviano learns of the machinations of his fellow noblemen he tells them that he intends to transfer the island to the citizens of the city, thereby setting events in motion that he can no longer control.
Penny Gore introduces this performance recorded last year at the State Opera, Hanover.Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, opera in three acts Robert Künzli - Tenor (Alviano Salvago)
Stefan Adam - Bass (Duke Antoniotto Adorno)
Jordan Shanahan - Baritone (Count Vitelozzo Tamare)
Tobias Schabel - Bass (Lodovico Nardi)
Karine Babajanyan - Soprano (Carlotta Nardi)
Edward Mout - Tenor (Guidobald Usodimare)
Frank Schneiders - Baritone (Gonsalvo Fieschi)
Gala El Hadidi - Mezzo-soprano (Martuccia)
Martin Rainer Leipoldt - Tenor (Menaldo Negroni)
Pawel Brozek - Tenor (A cutthroat)
Byung Kweon Jun - Baritone (Michelotto Cibo)
Daniel Eggert - Bass (Julian Pinelli)
Yannick Spanier - Bass (Paolo Calvi)
Alla Doelle - Soprano (Ginevra Scotti)
Franziska Abram - Soprano (A young girl)
Sung-keun Park - Tenor (A youth)
Latchezar Pravtchev - Tenor (Senator 1)
Jonas Böhm - Baritone (Senator 2)
Michael Dries - Bass (Senator 3)
Ula Drescher - Soprano (A maid servant)
Marek Durka - Bass (A servant / A citizen)
Hanover State Opera Chorus
Hanover State Orchestra
Mark Rohde - Conductor Venue
State Opera, Hanover
06/04/2019 Synopsis
Sixteenth century Genoa
Act 1
The young Genoan nobleman Alviano Salvago, hunchbacked and deformed, does not dare dream of the love of women. He wants to donate to the people of Genoa the island paradise called "Elysium" he has created. His friends, a group of dissolute young noblemen, have been using an underground grotto on the island for orgies with young women abducted from prominent Genoan families, and intervene with Duke Adorno to stop the transfer of ownership. One of them, Count Tamare, has set his sights on Carlotta, daughter of the Podestà. Carlotta rejects him, as she is only interested in Salvago, whose soul she wants to paint.
Act 2
Infuriated by Carlotta's rejection, Tamare swears to Adorno that he will take her by force. He also reveals the secret of the grotto to Adorno. Not wanting Salvago to become more popular than himself as a result of the gift, Adorno decides to use the existence of the secret grotto as an excuse to veto the transfer. While Salvago is sitting for Carlotta, she complains that she can't paint his soul if he keeps avoiding looking at her. To which he responds that ugly as he is, he still has the feelings of a man in the presence of a beautiful woman... Eventually Carlotta confesses that she loves him, but faints in his arms as both are overcome with emotion.
Act 3
The citizens of Genoa go to the island for the first time and are awed by what they see. Salvago asks the Podestà for Carlotta's hand in marriage. She evades him, wanders off alone, and in the grotto finally succumbs to Tamare who's wearing a mask. The Duke accuses Salvago of masterminding the abductions. Salvago, beside himself with worry for Carlotta, leads everyone to the underground grotto. Carlotta lies senseless on a bed, while Tamare prides himself on his conquering abilities. Salvago stabs him. Carlotta awakens, Salvago rushes to her side, but with her dying breath she calls for Tamare. Salvago, completely deranged, stumbles over Tamare's body as he makes his way through the stunned crowd. Schreker's Die Gezeichneten (The Stigmatized) from Hanover State Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Delibes' Final Opera Kassya | 20190207 | | Delibes' final opera Kassya (completed by Massenet)
Delibes is best known for his popular ballets, Coppélia and Sylvia and his opera Lakmé. This a chance to hear this rarity in a performance from Montpellier conducted by Michael Schonwandt and staring the soprano Véronique Gens.Presented by Penny Gore Kassya....Véronique Gens (Soprano)
Sonia....Anne-Catherine Gillet (Soprano)
Une Bohemienne....Nora Gubisch (Mezzo-soprano)
Cyrille....Cyrille Dubois (Treble)
Le Comte de Zevale....Alexandre Duhamel (Main Artist)
Kostska....Renaud Delalgue (Bass)
Kolenati....Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Baritone)
Mochkou....Rémy Mathieu (Tenor)
Un sergent recruteur....Anas Seguin (Baritone)
Un Buveur....Luc Bertin-hugault (Baritone)
Une Paysanne....Marie Senle (Soprano)
Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra
Montpellier Opera Chorus
Michael Schonwandt (Conductor) At the foot of the Carpathian mountains, Kassya, a young gypsy girl, is in love with the peasant Cyrille, but leaves him for the Count of Zevale, who dominates the region. Winner but resentful, the Count forces Cyrille to enlist in the imperial armies. Two years later, on his return, Cyrille finds his father reduced to misery by the tyrannical aristocrat, accompanied by Sonia, who has never ceased to love her childhood friend. Cyrille, the hero, then convinces the peasants to revolt and they overthrow the Count. Kassya, becomes a Countess whose cruelty equals that of her husband. Cyrille saves the young woman, who is in a difficult situation, from being lynched. Kassya tries to revive the flame of her former lover, but the procession of his wedding with Sonia is heard. Faced with the refusal of Cyrille, who prefers onia, his faithful promised, Kassya kills herself. Delibes' final opera Kassya from Montpellier. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Delibes's Final Opera Kassya | 20190207 | | Delibes' final opera Kassya (completed by Massenet)
Delibes is best known for his popular ballets, Coppélia and Sylvia and his opera Lakmé. This a rare chance to hear this rarity in a performance from Montpellier conducted by Michael Schonwandt and starring the soprano Véronique Gens.Presented by Penny Gore Kassya....Véronique Gens (Soprano)
Sonia....Anne-Catherine Gillet (Soprano)
Une Bohemienne....Nora Gubisch (Mezzo-soprano)
Cyrille....Cyrille Dubois (Treble)
Le Comte de Zevale....Alexandre Duhamel (Main Artist)
Kostska....Renaud Delalgue (Bass)
Kolenati....Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Baritone)
Mochkou....Rémy Mathieu (Tenor)
Un sergent recruteur....Anas Seguin (Baritone)
Un Buveur....Luc Bertin-hugault (Baritone)
Une Paysanne....Marie Senle (Soprano)
Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra
Montpellier Opera Chorus
Michael Schonwandt (Conductor) Delibes's final opera, Kassya, performed in Montpellier. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Donizetti's Anna Bolena From Lie8ge | 20200109 | | Opera Matinee. Georgia Mann presents a recording of last season's production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège. The composer was fascinated by the Tudor period in British history and set four of his operas during that time. Olga Peretyatko sings the title role in this performance, which tells of the ill-fated, short life of Henry VIII's second wife. Donizetti's Anna Bolena, from Liège Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) - Olga Peretyatko, soprano
Giovanna Seymour (Jane Seymour), Anna's lady-in- waiting - Sofia Soloviy, mezzo-soprano
Lord Percy - Celso Albelo, tenor
Enrico (Henry VIII) - Marko Mimica, bass
Smeton (Mark Smeaton), musician - Francesca Ascioti, contralto
Lord Rochefort/Rochford (George Boleyn), Anna's brother - Luciano Montanaro, bass
Sir Hervey, court official - Maxime Melnik, tenor
Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Pierre Iodice, chorus director
Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Giampaolo Bisanti, conductor Image: Olga Peretyatko copyright Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège This week's opera matinee, from Op\u00e9ra Royal de Wallonie, Li\u00e8ge. Presented by Georgia Mann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras This week's opera matinee from Op\u00e9ra Royal de Wallonie, Li\u00e8ge. Presented by Georgia Mann. Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) - Olga Peretyatko, soprano
Giovanna Seymour (Jane Seymour), Anna's lady-in- waiting - Sofia Soloviy, mezzo-soprano
Lord Percy - Celso Albelo, tenor
Enrico (Henry VIII) - Marko Mimica, bass
Smeton (Mark Smeaton), musician - Francesca Ascioti, contralto
Lord Rochefort/Rochford (George Boleyn), Anna's brother - Luciano Montanaro, bass
Sir Hervey, court official - Maxime Melnik, tenor
Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Pierre Iodice, chorus director
Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Giampaolo Bisanti, conductor |
| Duke Ellington's Sacred Music | 20200903 | | BBC Singers at the 2019 Proms perform Duke Ellington's Sacred Music.
Jazz, showbiz swagger and spirituality came together as never before in Duke Ellington's spectacular Sacred Concerts.
Described by Ellington himself as ‘the most important thing I have ever done', these sacred revues, blending big-band jazz, gospel and Broadway-style melodies, bring all the legendary musician's originality and energy to Christian subjects, and generated three critically acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Drawing on these, the Proms premiered a brand-new Sacred Concert – an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle.
Introduced by Georgia Mann.From 29 August 2019 Prom 54 Duke Ellington's Sacred Music
including: In The Beginning God, Something 'Bout Believing, The Lord's Prayer, Praise God and Dance, My Love, Ain't but the One. Father Forgive, Freedom
Heritage, Tell Me It's The Truth, Heaven, Come Sunday, David Danced.
BBC Singers
Carleen Anderson and the UK Vocal Assembly
Peter Edwards and Monty Alexander (piano)
Nu Civilisation Orchestra and at approx 3.40pm Prokofiev: Symphony No 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) The BBC Singers and friends in Duke Ellington's Sacred Music at the BBC Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Dystopia | 20200110 | | Presented by Fiona Talkington. Today's concert from the BBC Concert Orchestra was recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London last December. Joe Cutler's BBC commission Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, written for saxophonist Trish Clowes and given its first performance here, is inspired by David Mitchell's dystopian novel Cloud Atlas. It is surrounded by music used in dystopian films, illuminated and contextualised by presenter Matthew Sweet. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Sean Rafferty introduces a piece of music he loves. Rossini: Overture The Thieving Magpie
Joe Cutler: Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii - Saxophone Concerto, BBC commission world premiere
Trish Clowes: Abbott & Costello
John Paesano: The Maze Runner Suite
Bernard Herrmann: Fahrenheit 451 Suite
Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G 'Prelude'
John Williams: New Beginning
Danny Elfman: Nightmare before Christmas - Orchestral Suite.
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D Trish Clowes, saxophone
Ross Stanley, Hammond
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ben Palmer, conductor With Fiona Talkington. Music and dystopia from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Trish Clowes. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Fiona Talkington. Today's concert from the BBC Concert Orchestra was recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London last December.Joe Cutler's BBC commission Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, written for saxophonist Trish Clowes and given its first performance here, is inspired by David Mitchell's dystopian novel Cloud Atlas. It is surrounded by music used in dystopian films, illuminated and contextualised by presenter Matthew Sweet. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Sean Rafferty introduces a piece of music he loves. Rossini: Overture The Thieving Magpie
Joe Cutler: Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii - Saxophone Concerto, BBC commission world premiere
Trish Clowes: Abbott & Costello
John Paesano: The Maze Runner Suite
Bernard Herrmann: Fahrenheit 451 Suite
Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G 'Prelude'
John Williams: New Beginning
Danny Elfman: Nightmare before Christmas - Orchestral Suite.
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D With Fiona Talkington. Music and dystopia from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Trish Clowes. |
| Elgar, Saint-saens And Musgrave | 20181001 | | Elgar, Saint-Saens, Musgrave and a world premiere of Nimrod Borenstein's Cello Concerto, given by the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney. Leonard Elschenbroich joins the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Duncan Ward for a performance of Elgar's elegiac Cello Concerto, while French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie gives the first of their Saint-Saens concertos this week. There's Thea Musgrave every day too: today, Songs for a Winter's evening with soprano Claire Booth. Then, the world premiere of Nimrod Borenstein's Cello Concerto Op 77, given by Corinne Morris and conductor Frédéric Chaslin. 2.00pm
Debussy: Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Duncan Ward (conductor)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) c.3.15pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No 1
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano) c.3.40pm
Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's evening
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Claire Booth (soprano) c.4.05pm
Copland An Outdoor overture
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.4.15pm
Nimrod Borenstein Cello Concerto Op 77 (wp)
BBC Philharmonic
Frédéric Chaslin (conductor)
Corinne Morris (cello) Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Elgar, Saint-Saens and Musgrave. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Elisabeth Jacquet De La Guerre's Cephale Et Procris | 20190307 | | Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a child prodigy and performed on the harpsichord at a young age before the French king, Louis XIV. She was one of the few well-known female composers of her time, and today we hear her 1694 opera Céphale et Procris, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique. This five-act tragédie lyrique was the first opera written by a woman in France.
The afternoon ends with works by Sally Beamish and BartokPresented by Kate Molleson Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris Procris....Raphaele Kennedy (Soprano)
Cephale....Achim Schultz (Counter-tenor)
Dorine....Camilla De Falleiro (Soprano)
Arcas....Lisandro Abadie (Bass)
Boree / La Desespoir....Emil Rovner (Bass)
Priestess / Iphis....Anna Jesus Sanchez (Soprano)The
L'Aurore....Mariana Flores (Soprano)
La Volupte....Gry Elisabeth Knudsen (Soprano)
A Thracian....Kazuko Nakano (Alto)
Rage....Alex Potter (Counter-tenor)
Jealousy....Daniel Issa Goncalves (Tenor)
The King....Erich Bieri (Bass)
Musica Fiorita
Daniela Dolci (director) 4.00pm
Sally Beamish: The Singing – Accordion Concerto
James Crabb (accordion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 4.20pm
Bartok: Divertimento for Strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra Strings
Gergely Madaras (conductor) Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's 1694 opera, Cephale et Procris. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Enescu And Suk From The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20200526 | | The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Penny Gore introduces recent performances by Germany's oldest radio orchestra. Founded in 1923, the orchestra is noted for its championship of a wide variety of repertoire. Today the orchestra continues that tradition under its current Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski. Britten: Violin Concerto, op. 15
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Enescu: Symphony No. 3 in C, op. 21
George Enescu Philharmonic Chorus
Berlin State Opera Children's Chorus
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Followed at approx. 3.30pm by Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
Josef Spacek, violin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor at approx. 4.00pm Josef Suk: Pohádka léta, symphonic poem, op. 29 (A Summer's Tale)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra play Enescu's Symphony No 3 and Suk's A Summer's Tale. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Eugene Onegin | 20190131 | | This week's Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Madame Larina....Susann Vegh (Mezzo-soprano)
Tatyana....Cornelia Beskow (Soprano)
Olga....Johanna Rudstrom (Mezzo-soprano)
Filipyevna....Katarina Leoson (Contralot)
Lensky....Joel Annmo (Tenor)
Eugene Onegin....Karl Magnus Fredriksson (Baritone)
Prince Gremin....Lennart Forsen (Bass)
Zaretsky....Martin Lissel (Bass)
Monsieur Triquet....Jonas Degerfeldt (Tenor)
Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra
Swedish Royal Opera Chorus
Evan Rogister This week's Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with the Swedish Opera Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Eurovision Young Musicians Final | 20180824 | | 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. The final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 from the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Faust By Gounod From Madrid | 20181227 | | Today's opera matinee is one of the ever-greens of the repertoire. Gounod's Faust is the tale of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in return for power and knowledge. This new production by the Teatro Real in Madrid is a co-production with De Nationale Opera and Ballet of Amsterdam. Starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka. Presented by Jonathan Swain Gounod: Faust Faust….. Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Méphistophélès….. Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone)
Marguerite….. Marina Rebeka (soprano)
Valentin….. Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Wagner….. Isaac Galán (baritone)
Siébel…. Serena Malfi (mezzo-soprano)
Marthe Schwertlein….. Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
Dan Ettinger , conductor 2.00pm
Acts 1 and 2 2.50pm
Act 3 3.40pm
Acts 4 and 5 For full synopsis visit programme page Gounod's Faust starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Frank Martin's Le Vin Herbe | 20190103 | | Frank Martin's chamber opera take on the "Tristan and Isolde" story - "Le Vin herbé" is, in every way, a far cry from Wagner, but still in a league of its own; a human oratorio, an intimate and emotional story of love and death. Frank Martin himself called the piece a chamber opera that is more influenced by Bach than Wagner, even if the background story is the same, a ‘human oratorio'. In spite of the small ensemble and a focus on storytelling rather than dramatization, Martin's setting of the medieval love story is just as strong and gripping. Here, Peter Dijkstra, who is himself a passionate fan of Frank Martin's music, and the Swedish Radio Chorus perform "Le Vin herbé" in concert version, the immortal drama and the enchanting music. 2pm
Frank Martin - Le Le Vin herbé
Part I: Le Philtre Part II : La Forêt du Morois Part III : La Mort and Epilogue Tristan…Marcel Reijans, tenor
Iseult…Johanna Winkel, soprano
Love Derwinger, piano
Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Peter Dijkstra, conductor 3.45pm
Raminta Serksnyte – Songs of Sunset & Dawn
Lina Dambrauskaite, soprano
Justina Grinyte, mezzo-soprano
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Nerijus Masevicius, bass
Swedish Radio Chorus
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Gledre Slekyte, conductor Raminta Šerkšnytė's Songs of Sunset and Dawn is a fusion of thriving neo-romantic sounds and playfully exploratory motifs and techniques. It's a setting of the writings of the Indian and Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. Presented by Tom McKinney Frank Martin's chamber opera Le Vin herbe performed in Stockholm's Berwaldhallen Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - 21st-century European Concert Halls | 20170303 | | Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st-century European concert halls.Today's programme includes Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Marzena Diakun conducting the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra from the Philharmonie in Paris. 2pm:
Ives: Symphony No. 4 KV.39
Emil Holmström (piano)
Helsinki Music Centre Chorus
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchsetra
Conductor Hannu Lintu
Helsinki Music Centre c.2:30pm:
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Vilde Frang (violin)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Marzena Diakun (conductor) c. 3pm:
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano)
Christian Elsner (tenor)
Radio France Philharmonic
Marzena Diakun (conductor). Verity Sharp with music by Ives, Korngold and Mahler performed in European concert halls. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - American Ensembles And Repertoire | 20170421 | | Katie Derham introduces a performance of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez from the Swiss Romande under Alondra de la Parra, with guitar soloist Milos Karadaglic. Then it's the Boston Symphony Orchestra with its newly appointed Principal Conductor Andris Nelsons, who takes to the rostrum for this recording of Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 6 'Tragic'. 2.00pm
Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alondra de la Parra, conductor 2.25pm
Bartok
The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Op. 19
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor 3.05pm
Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor ('Tragic')
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor. Katie Derham features the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20170609 | | Katie Derham presents recent recordings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including the original version of Walton's Violin Concerto and Sullivan's music for Macbeth with actor Simon Callow. 2pm
Sullivan: Incidental music for Macbeth
Simon Callow (actor)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews c.2.55pm
Hubert Clifford: Suite frorm the film 'Hunted'
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp c.3.10pm
Walton: Violin Concerto (original version, 1939)
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates c.3.40pm
Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jaime Martin. The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Sullivan, Hubert Clifford, Walton and Dvorak. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170310 | | Katie Derham concludes her series of British music in a week also celebrating International Women's Day (Wednesday) with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Dobrinka Tabakova pays homage to Schubert and there's another chance to hear Lynne Plowman's Blue - which won the BBC NOW Young Composers Competition back in 1995. Bliss explores the associations of heraldic colours in his symphony, and Vaughan Williams adds the delicate sounds of a wordless chorus to orchestral strings in his brilliantly original viola concerto. Steve Martland and Graham Fitkin add energy and rhythmic brilliance from a recent concert series championing bold composers of recent years, "Great Brits". c.2pm
Dobrinka Tabakova: Fantasy Homage to Schubert
BBC NOW
Clark Rundell, conductor c.2.10pm
Martland: Crossing the Border
BBC NOW
Edwin Outwater, conductor c.2.40pm
Graham Fitkin: Intimate Curve
BBC NOW
Edwin Outwater, conductor c.3pm
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Lawrence Power, viola
BBC NOW
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c.3.25pm
Bliss: A Colour Symphony
BBC NOW
Richard Hickox, conductor c.3.55pm
Lynne Plowman: Blue
BBC NOW
Martyn Brabbins, conductor. BBC NOW in music by Tabakova, Martland, Fitkin, Vaughan Williams, Bliss and Lynne Plowman. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170623 | | Verity Sharp concludes the week introducing the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a live concert from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff with music by Bartok, Prokofiev and Korngold. LIVE
2pm
Bartok: Hungarian Sketches, Sz.97
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op.26
Beatrice Rana (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) c.2.50pm
Interval Music:
B Tommy Andersson: Pan
David Goode (organ)
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.3.15pm LIVE
Korngold Symphony in F sharp, Op.40
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
B Tommy Andersson (conductor) c.3.55pm
Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine (conductor). Live at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW in Bartok, Prokofiev, Korngold and Chadwick Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert | 20180126 | | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We hear the collaborative concert from the recent Association of British Orchestras conference in Cardiff, at which both the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera performed. Plus Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues, and 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. 2pm
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Tomas Hanus (conductor) c. 2.50pm
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c. 3.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op 32
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) c. 4.15pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major, Op 68, "Pastoral"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor). Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live At Hoddinott Hall | 20170929 | | Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff in a programme of French tone poems as part of Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. We'll hear Franck, Honegger and d'Indy all inspired by mountains. Plus Peter Moore joins the orchestra for pieces for trombone and orchestra by Takemitsu and Milhaud. Then back to the studio with Penny Gore for music by Johann Strauss II. 2pm - LIVE from Hoddinott Hall, presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Franck: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, poème symphonique d'après Victor Hugo, Op.13 (1847)
Takemitsu: Fantasma Cantos II for trombone and orchestra (1994) c.3.10
Milhaud: Concertino d'hiver for trombone and strings, Op.327 (1953)
Honegger: Pastorale d'été (1921)
d'Indy: Jour d'été à la montagne (1905)
Peter Moore (trombone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kazuki Yamada (conductor) c.4.10pm Back to the studio with Penny Gore
Johann Strauss (son): Die Fledermaus - Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor). Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Cardiff. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Cardiff | 20171020 | | 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
Live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, presented by Nicola Heyward Thomas. Shostakovich: October - symphonic poem, Op.131
Musorgsky: Songs and dances of death (orch Denisov)
Musorgsky: Song of the Flea (orch Stravinsky) Interval music c.3pm
Liszt: Mazeppa - symphonic poem after Hugo, S.100
Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase, Op.54
Ashley Riches (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Robert Spano (conductor) c.3.50pm back to the studio with Penny Gore Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op.82
Sibelius: Valse Triste (Kuolema)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.4.25pm
Arnell: Lord Byron - a Symphonic Portrait
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martin Yates (conductor). The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Hoddinott Hall | 20180413 | | 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, we celebrate 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. Concluding a week of concerts, Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live performance from the orchestra's home in Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, with the pianist Llyr Williams in Mozart - a composer also featured in our first ever concert in 1928. Bruch was also on that inaugural programme 90 years ago, and returns in a performance of his double concerto by BBC New Generation Artist, the viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, and the clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. Marking the orchestra's relationship with the welsh composer William Mathias, conductor Grant Llewellyn returns to a work he first premiered under the composer's watchful eye back in 1991 - his Symphony No. 3. Huw Watkins - 3 Welsh songs for String Orchestra
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K.482
Bruch - Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E minor
Mathias - Symphony No. 3 Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Llyr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) And at 3.50pm Kate Molleson continues this week's focus on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary by marking band's relationship with associated composers, including a work written by Daniel Jones for Ken Thomas - the former General Secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association - as a retirement gift. Plus we hear Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard conduct B Tommy Andersson's memoriam to Richard Wagner. Daniel Jones - Cloud Messenger for orchestra
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Arwell Hughes (conductor) Andersson - Death in Venice (Richard Wagner Memoriam)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Now Live From Bbc Hoddinott Hall In Cardiff | 20170407 | | A live concert from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.
With Radio 3 in Hull for its Uproot folk festival, Jun Märkl conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in pieces by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Ravel that were part of the French orientalist movement - an early manifestation of an interest in world music.
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents.2pm - LIVE from Hoddinott Hall
Debussy: 6 Epigraphes antiques, orch. Ansermet
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op.103, 'Egyptian'
Ravel: Shéhérazade - ouverture de féerie
Debussy: Khamma - legende dansée, orch. Debussy & Koechlin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
Jun Märkl (conductor) 4pm
Followed by Catriona Young rounding off a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. A live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20170616 | | Penny Gore presents more American orchestral music from the BBC Philharmonic. In today's programme the orchestra performs works by George Antheil, Aaron Copland and John Harbison. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor joins the orchestra for Saint-Saëns's second piano concerto. 2.30pm
Antheil
Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor) c.3.05pm
Copland
Orchestral Variations
BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor) John Harbison
Music for Eighteen Winds (UK premiere)
BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor) c.3.30pm
Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.55pm
Debussy
La mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Antheil, Copland, Harbison, Saint-Saens and Debussy Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171208 | | 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:
Stravinsky: Apollo
Sibelius: Six Humoresques
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor) c.3.40pm:
Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber (conductor) c.4.10pm:
Stravinsky: Concerto in D major for strings
BBC Philharmonic
Lee Reynolds (conductor) c.4.25pm:
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor). Tom Redmond introduces a concert of music by Stravinsky, Sibelius and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180316 | | 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:
Elgar: Overture, Cockaigne
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39
Kathryn Stott (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor) c.3.20pm:
Elgar: The Pipes of Pan
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor) c.3.25pm:
Berlioz: Overture, Le carnaval romain
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Litton (conductor) c.3.35pm:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor) c.4.10pm:
Tchaikovksy: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor). Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180420 | | Tom Redmond concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Julia Fischer, and Elgar's second symphony. 2pm:
Weber - Overture, Euryanthe
Britten - Violin Concerto
Elgar - Symphony no 2
Julia Fischer (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.3.40pm:
Vaughan Williams - The Wasps, Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.3.55pm:
Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180629 | | 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:
Copland - Suite, Appalachian Spring
Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major Op 35
Vaughan Williams - Symphony no 5 in D major
Andrew Haveron (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.3.30pm:
Copland - Connotations
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.3.50pm:
Dvorák - Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op 45 no 2
BBC Philharmonic
Frederic Chaslin (conductor) c.4.05pm:
Arriaga - Overture in D
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.4.15pm:
Carmen (selection from the suites)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.4.45pm:
Roussel - Pour une Fête de printemps
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor). Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Bridgewater Hall | 20170414 | | Penny Gore presents a performance Bach's St Matthew Passion with the BBC Philharmonic under Nicholas Kraemer, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall Bach's St. Matthew Passion was first performed on Good Friday in 1727. Nearly 300 years later, this rich and profoundly personal masterpiece retains its place as the one of the greatest Easter works in the repertoire. With gripping drama, it tells the story of Christ's last days including the last supper, his betrayal, crucifixion and burial 2.00pm
Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV.244 (sung in German)
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor - Evangelist
Matthew Hargreaves, bass-baritone - Christus
Lina Johnson, soprano
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Benjamin Bevan, baritone
Manchester Chamber Choir
Kinder Children's Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor. Live from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Penny Gore presents Bach's St Matthew Passion. 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, 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
Smetana: Ma vlast
BBC Philharmonic
Pietari Inkinen (conductor) c. 3.25pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 1
BBC Philharmonic
Jamie Phillips (conductor) c. 4pm
Nicola LeFanu: Wind-blown seeds
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor) c. 4.20pm
Elgar: Falstaff
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor). Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Philharmonic On Tour | 20170630 | | Penny Gore concludes a week of performances from the orchestra on tour in Spain, Austria, Germany and China. Today, Julia Fischer joins the orchestra for Britten's Violin Concerto in Stuttgart, and Juanjo Mena conducts Elgar's Second Symphony in Innsbruck. Plus, as part of Radio 3's Canada 150 celebrations, a performance of Chris Meyer's Hope, performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. 2pm
Britten
Violin Concerto, Op 15
Julia Fischer (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.2.35pm
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.3.20pm
Elgar
Symphony No 2 in E flat major, Op 63
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.4.15pm
Canada 150
Chris Meyer
Hope (NYO of Canada commission)
National Youth Orchestra of Canada
Perry So (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic performs Britten, Tchaikovsky and Elgar in Germany. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170505 | | Catriona Young concludes her week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a Beethoven theme across the week. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, including Dvorak's 6th Symphony. Plus today's piece of Beethoven is his Pastoral Symphony. 2pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.68 (Pastoral)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.2.40pm
Tippett: Ritual Dances from 'The Midsummer Marriage'
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op.26
Daniel Hope (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.30pm
Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op.60
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Tippett, Bruch and Dvorak Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170526 | | Katie Derham completes her week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with new recordings of music by neglected British composers Erik Chisholm and William Sterndale Bennett. Plus a concert the orchestra gave in Aberdeen, comprising Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with Alexandra Soumm as soloist, and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. 2pm
Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op.9
Howard Shelley (piano/director)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra c.2.30pm
Glinka: Ruslan i Lyudmila - Overture
Sibelius Concerto in D minor Op.47 for violin and orchestra c.3.10pm
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op.36
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.50pm
Chisholm: Dance Suite for piano and orchestra
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor). The BBC SSO performs music by WS Bennett, Glinka, Sibelius Tchaikovsky and Chisholm. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170922 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Walton, plus Rachmaninov's second piano concerto Presented by Verity Sharp 2.00pm
Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor 3.40pm
Walton: Violin Concerto in B minor
Anthony Marwood, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor. Verity Sharp with pieces by Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Walton. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20171124 | | 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
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op.56a
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Strauss: Aus Italien, Op.16
Kristof Barati (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph König (conductor) c. 3.30pm
Dvorak: Vanda - overture
Janacek: Suite for Strings
Dvorak: The Wild Dove
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald (conductor) c.4.30pm
Messiaen: L'Ascension
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Duncan Ward (conductor). Ian Skelly presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180427 | | 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
Bartok Romanian folk dances Sz.68, orch. from Sz.56 [orig. for piano] (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)
Bartok 15 Hungarian Peasant songs, Sz.71 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)
Bartok Hungarian sketches Sz.97 for orchestra [from own piano works]
13'08 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)
Bartok Transylvanian Dances, Sz.96 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta Sz.106
Nóri Kovács (singer)
Parapács
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.30pm
Rheinberger Concerto in A flat major Op.94 for piano and orchestra
Simon Callaghan (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor) Corea Children's songs, arr. saxophone and Orchestra [orig. for piano]
Tommy Smith (saxophone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Clark Rundell (conductor). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Bartok. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180518 | | Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, directed from the violin by their Leader Laura Samuel, in music by Mozart, Bridge & Benjamin Britten. Plus Beethoven's rousing Eroica symphony to round off the week. 2pm
Mozart: Serenade in G major K.525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
Britten: Les Illuminations Op.18 for voice and string orchestra
Bridge: 3 Idylls for string quartet, arr Hindmarsh for strings
Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
Laura Samuel (violin & director)
Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra c.4.05pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor). Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart Bridge & Britten Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20170714 | | Catriona Young introduces a concert given by the BBC Singers at Milton Court in London earlier this month, conducted by Eric Whitacre, as well as music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra in tribute to former Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek who died last month. Vitezslav Novak: About the eternal longing Op.33 - tone-poem after Hans Andersen
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) 2:20pm
Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me
John Mackey: The Rumour of a Secret King
Jonathan Newman: Agnus Dei
Steven Bryant: In Aeternum
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
Sarah Hopkins: Past Life Melodies
Eric Whitacre: Three Flower Songs
John Powell: Requiem Addendum
Eric Whitacre: Enjoy the Silence
BBC Singers
Eric Whitacre (conductor)
Recorded earlier this month at Milton Court, Barbican, London 3:30pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor). BBC SO in Novak and Vaughan Williams. Plus BBC Singers: Eric Whitacre and John Mackey. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Singers And Symphony Orchestra At The Bbc Proms Dubai | 20170331 | | Katie Derham ends a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Shostakovich, Debussy and Saint-Saëns recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai. 2.00pm
Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op.96
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.09pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.32pm
Debussy: La Mer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.55pm
Handel: Zadok the Priest
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.03pm
Joseph Tawadros (arranged by Jules Buckley): Eye of the Beholder; Permission to Evaporate; Constantinople
Joseph Tawadros (ud and percussion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.20pm
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.28pm
Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.33pm
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major;
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 4.00pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with more performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Handel, Tawadros, Wood, Arne, Elgar and Weir. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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
Barber: Symphony No 1, Op 9
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
George Walker: Icarus in Orbit
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.Ravel)
Javier Perianes (piano)
James Feddeck (conductor) c.3.30pm
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor) c.3.45pm
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 2
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) Bernstein: Touches - Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda for piano
piano tba c.4.20pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Karawane
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor). The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Ravel and Mussogsky at the Barbican, London. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20170519 | | Music by Suk, Beethoven and a modern take on the four seasons from Roxanna Panufnik, her 'Four World Seasons', played by violinist Tasmin Little Presented by Katie Derham 2.00pm
Suk: Prague, Op.26
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor 2.25pm
Detlev Glanert: Megaris
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor 2.50pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor 3.20pm
Roxanna Panufnik: Four World Seasons
Tasmin Little, violin/director
BBC Symphony Orchestra 3.40pm
Martinu: Symphony No.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor. BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Suk, Glanert, Beethoven, Roxanna Panufnik and Martinu. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Concerts From Switzerland | 20170512 | | Verity Sharp introduces concerts recorded recently in Switzerland. First, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, conducted by Jérémie Rhorer, performs Mozart's Symphony 40 in G minor. The afternoon continues with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, under Sir Roger Norrington, playing Haydn's Symphonies 83 and 103, but in between them, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Franceso Piemontesi as soloist. And to end the afternoon, Tubin's Estonian Dance Suite, again with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, this time under the baton of Anu Tali. 2.00pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor 2.25pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 ('La Poule')
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor 2.56pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Francesco Piemontesi, piano
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor 3.30pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E flat, Hob. I:103 ('Drumroll')
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor 4.01pm
Tubin: Estonian Dance Suite
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Anu Tali, conductor. Verity Sharp introduces a programme including music by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - European Concert Showcase | 20171201 | | Tom McKinney presents the last of this week's selection of concerts from across Europe, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Today's main concert is from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Daniele Gatti conducting Beethoven and Brahms. Plus a final visit to the Prague Spring International Music Festival with the Orchestre de Paris in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. 2pm:
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
conductor Daniele Gatti c.3.30pm:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No 2
Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne
Mussorgsky, orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre de Paris
conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris play Beethoven and Mussorgsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra | 20180406 | | Penny Gore concludes a week of live concert recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Today, music by Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera. Ginastera:
Glosses sobre tempes de Pau Casals, Op 4
Harp Concerto, Op 25
Estudios sinfonicos, Op 35 (European premiere)
Estancia, Op 8 - ballet suite
Xavier de Maistre, harp
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor). Penny Gore concludes a week of concerts featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171006 | | 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
Mozart
Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 ('Haffner')
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen (conductor) c. 3.15pm
Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish')
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington (conductor) c. 4.25pm
Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington (conductor). Radio France Philharmonic in Mozart's thrilling overture to his opera, Don Giovanni. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Rattle At Radio 3 | 20170915 | | Penny Gore presents Simon Rattle conducting Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, which was recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2014. Sally Matthews stars as the young novice nun, Blanche, who deals with her own fears to face her destiny in Poulenc's version of the true story of the martyrdom of the nuns of Compiègne during the French Revolution. Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites Blanche.... Sally Matthews (soprano)
Constance.... Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Madame Lidoine.... Emma Bell (soprano)
Mother Marie.... Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano)
Madame de Croissy.... Deborah Polaski (soprano)
Marquis de la Force.... Thomas Allen (baritone)
Chevalier de la Force.... Yann Beuron (tenor)
Mother Jeanne.... Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-soprano)
Sister Mathilde.... Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano)
Father Confessor.... Alan Oke (tenor)
First Commissary.... David Butt Philip (baritone)
Second Commissary.... Michel De Souza (baritone)
First Officer.... Ashley Riches (baritone)
Gaoler.... Craig Smith (baritone)
M.Javelinot.... John Bernays (bass)
Thierry.... Neil Gillespie (tenor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Simon Rattle (conductor) [Opera matinee returns to Thursday as usual next week]. Simon Rattle conducts Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites recorded at the Royal Opera House Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | 20170602 | | Jonathan Swain presents the last programme in this week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In today's programme Stephane Deneve conducts the orchestra in works by Roussel and Ravel. And to end, Daniele Gatti conducts Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony. 2.00
Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake, op. 62
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Antonio Pappano 2.08
Roussel
Symphony No. 3 in G minor, op. 42
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Stéphane Denève 2.34
Ravel
La Valse
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Stéphane Denève 2.48
Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor ('Resurrection')
Chen Reiss, soprano
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs music by Lyadov, Roussel, Ravel and Mahler. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra | 20170324 | | Penny Gore ends a week of performances from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. The culmination of the week is a lively concert led by the charistmatic and energetic violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Expect the unexpected! 2pm:
Mozart: Piano concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (piano/director) 2.30pm:
George Tsontakis: Coraggio, from 'String Quartet No. 3' (first performance)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra c. 2.40pm:
Nico Muhly: Material in E flat, from 'Drones and Violin'
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Passion for string orchestra
Tippett: A Lament (Divertimento on Sellinger's Round)
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Action, for string orchestra
Bryce Dessner: Tenebre, for string ensemble and pre-recorded track
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Illusion, for string orchestra
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto (violin/director) c.3.15pm:
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219
Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto (violin/director). Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Mozart, Tsontakis, Muhly, Tippett, Dessner, Tuur, Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20170707 | | Verity Sharp presents a concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Plus a final piece from the New Music Biennial at Hull City of Culture. 2pm:
Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Harding 2:45pm:
Helen Grime: Violin Concerto (first performance)
Malin Broman (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Harding 3:10pm:
Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Harding. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Brahms, Helen Grime and Stravinsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Bbc Hoddinott Hall | 20170428 | | Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Alexandre Bloch conducts a programme of Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, and the orchestra is joined by BBC New Generation Artist Anneline van Wauwe for Hindemith's Clarinet Concerto. Then it's back to London with Penny Gore, and more from a new CD recording of works by Bernard van Dieren. 2pm
LIVE from Hoddinott Hall
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas Stravinsky: Danses concertantes
Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto in A major
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 in A minor
Annelien van Wauwe (clarinet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor) c.4.05pm back to the studio with Penny Gore
Dieren: Introit - Les propous des Beuveurs (after Rabelais)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton (conductor). Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW in Stravinsky, Hindemith and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180209 | | Georgia Mann presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. John Wilson conducts, and is joined by Roman Simovic for Glazunov's Violin Concerto. Plus more from a new recording of British violin works performed by Clare Howick, and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony conducted by Ilan Volkov. 2pm
Grieg: Holberg Suite Op 40
Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 82
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), Op 36
Roman Simovic (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) c.3.10pm
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor) Paul Patterson:Violin Concerto No 2
Clare Howick (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) c.3.55pm
Cassandra Miller: Round
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 (Eroica)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Aberdeen. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180309 | | 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
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor Op 103
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) 3.40pm
Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 4.00pm
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
lya Gringolts (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Bbc Singers Live From Temple Church, City Of London And The Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live From Maida Vale | 20171215 | | 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
Richard Madden: Balulalow
Owain Park: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Bernard Hughes: Jesus, Springing
Joanna Marsh: Evergreen (world premiere)
Richard Knight: Come rock his cradle
Carl Rutti: O little town
Richard Causton: Cradle Song
Judith Bingham: Corpus Christi Carol
Peter Copley: Two Carols
Howard Skempton: To Bethlehem did they go
Bror Samuelson: Ave maris stella
Adrian Peacock: Venite Gaudete BBC Singers
Roger Sayer (organ)
Owain Park (conductor) 3.15pm LIVE from Maida Vale, London, presented by Petroc Trelawny
Liadov: Baba Yaga - tone poem
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Alexander Soumm (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tung-Chien Chuang (conductor). Live from London's Temple Church the BBC Singers with contemporary choral Christmas pieces Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180202 | | 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
Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces (Purcell Variations)
Shostakovich: Concerto in C minor, Op 35, for piano, trumpet and string orchestra
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30
Alan Thomas (trumpet)
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.3.20pm
Cowie: Earth Music
BBC Singers c.3.35pm
Dohnanyi: Ruralia hungarica, Op 32b
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) c.4.05pm
Bliss: The Beatitudes
Emily Birsan (soprano)
Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor). The BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Barbican in London. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The 'best Of 2017' Featuring The Bbc Sso, Bbc Singers And Bbc So | 20171229 | | 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
Britten: Four Sea Interludes
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor,'Scottish'
Nicolaj Znaider (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.45pm
Palestrina Salve Regina
Bruckner: Christus factus est
Palestrina: Stabat Mater
BBC Singers
Robert Quinney (conductor) c.4.10pm
Sibelius: Lemminkainen - Four Legends:
I Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari
II The Swan of Tuonela
III Lemminikainen in Tuonela
IV The Return of Lemminikainen
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor). The Best of 2017, featuring the BBC SSO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180323 | | 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
Brahms - Symphony No.3 Op.90
Beethoven - Violin Concerto Op.61
Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 3.25pm
Mendelssohn - Calm Sea and Prosperous Op.27
Ulster Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) 3.35pm
Neruda: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings
Pacho Flores (trumpet)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 4.15pm
Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 Op.39
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor). Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing Brahms, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Ulster Orchestra | 20170317 | | Katie Derham showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes works by Tchaikovsky and Haydn, and Afternoon on 3's British music season continues with Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto and Elgar's Enigma Variations. 2pm
Sibelius: Karelia Overture, Op.10
Ulster Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor) 2.10pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, Op. 44
Barry Douglas (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 2.55pm
Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D major (H. 1/104)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor) 3.25pm
Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto
Ramon Ortega Quero (oboe)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor) 3.45pm
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor). The Ulster Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday - Ulster Orchestra | 20171103 | | 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
Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C major, Op. 21
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D Major (Titan)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 3.25pm
Bax: Cathleen-ni-Houlihan
Willian Alwyn: Blackdown
Vaughan Williams: Three Impressions for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor) 4.20pm
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ulster Orchestra
Jac Van Steen (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday: Bbc Philharmonic | 20181130 | | Dvořák, Ginastera, and Saariaho from live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Beginning with Arthur Benjamin's wartime piece for viola, we'll also hear a Dvořák symphony written for the Philharmonic Society in London and a Saariaho piece whose postscript comes from T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land'. 2.00pm
Arthur Benjamin
Elegy, Waltz and Toccata for Viola and Orchestra
Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, viola
Dvořák
Symphony No.7
BBC Philharmonic
Nuno Coelho, conductor Zimmermann
Symphony in One Movement (Revised Edition)
Antheil
Specter of the Rose, Waltz (1946)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor Alwyn
The Ship that Died of Shame (1955)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor c. 3.30pm
David Matthews
Toward Sunrise
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen, conductor Ginastera
Concierto Argentino
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Xiayin Wang, piano Kaija Saariaho
Notes on Light
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor
Jakob Kullberg, cello c. 4.30pm
Varèse
Amériques BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Tom McKinney. Live recordings of Dvorak, Ginastera and Saariaho by the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Friday: Mendelssohn And Shostakovich | 20180914 | | 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
Jodie Devos, soprano
Lore Binon, soprano
Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Brno
Women's voices
Petr Fiala, director
Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Arming, conductor
Recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liège c.3.45pm:
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no 13 in B flat minor, Op 113 ('Babi Yar')
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
Men's voices of the Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Brno
Petr Fiala, director
Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Arming, conductor
Recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liège The Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Shostakovich Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| From April To December | 20191206 | | BBC Philharmonic in Concert: music by Sibelius, Prokofiev, Schumann, Foulds & Tchaikovsky. From April in England with Foulds to Tchaikovsky's Russian winter daydreams. And first Sibelius takes us deep into the Nordic forests. Presented by Penny Gore. Sibelius: The Wood Nymph
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2
with Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Schumann: Symphony No 3 (Rhenish)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor John Storgards 3.30pm
Foulds: April-England
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Rumon Gamba 3.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Ben Gernon The BBC Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Prokofiev, Schumann, Foulds and Tchaikovsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| German Orchestras (1/4) | 20190527 | | A week of concerts featuring German orchestras, beginning today with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Guillaume Connesson: Flammenschrift Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op.64 Nikolaj Znaider, violin
German Symphony
Orchestra, Berlin
Stephane Deneve, conductor 3.50pm
J.S.Bach: Orchestral Suite No.1 inC, BWV 1066 C.P.E Bach: Cello Concerto in A, Wq172 Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.98 in B flat, Hob: 1:98 Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Ton Koopman, conductor Two concerts by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| German Orchestras (2/4) | 20190528 | | Continuing a week of concerts by German orchestras. Today we hear from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for organ, timpani and strings in G minor, FP 93 Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 in C, Op.78 “Organ” Iveta Apkalna, organ
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor 3.10pm
Heinrich Schutz: Das ist mir lieb, Psalm 116 Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68 RIAS Chamber Chorus
Justin Doyle, conductor
Igor Levit, piano
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor Concerts by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| German Orchestras (3/4) | 20190529 | | Our tour around Germany lands in Leipzig today for a concert by the renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra. Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture, Op.95 Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61 Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 “Italian” Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andris Neslons, conductor Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Mendelssohn and Schumann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| German Orchestras (4/4) | 20190531 | | Our week of concerts by German orchestras concludes today with another by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, under their music director Robin Ticciati. Presented by Kate Molleson 2,00pm
George Benjamin: Sudden Time
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin conducted by Robin Ticciati. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Gershwin, Messiaen, Elgar And Sibelius | 20181221 | | Gershwin's An American in Paris and Messiaen's epic Turangalila Symphony recorded at the BBC Proms, plus works by Elgar and Sibelius 2.00pm
Relive one of the highlights of the 2018 BBC Proms season with two very different key works of the twentieth century. Gershwin's An American in Paris simply oozes great tunes, while Messiaen's vast Turangalila is a highly personal, extravagant exploration of love and death.
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie
Angela Hewitt, piano
Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor 3.30pm
Elgar: The Spirit of England
Andrew Staples, tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor 1610
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
Aleksey Semenenko, violin
Ulster Orchestra
Tito Munoz, conductor Gershwin and Messiaen recorded at the BBC Proms, plus Elgar and Sibelius Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Gossec's Grande Messe Des Morts | 20161130 | | Penny Gore introduces a complete performance of Gossec's Grande Messe des Morts. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Halevy From Hannover | 20200227 | | Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance of Fromental Halevy's 19th-century grand opera, La Juive - "The Jewess" - from Hannover Opera. In its day, La Juive was considered one of the great musical works of its time and might even have inspired moments in Richard Wagner's work. It was largely forgotten for much of the 20th century but has enjoyed a widespread revival in the last 20 years. It tells the story of the love of a Christian man for a Jewish women and can be regarded as an advocacy for religious tolerance. Fromental Halevy: La Juive A grand opera in Five Acts. Cast:
Rachel, the supposed daughter of Eléazar - Hailey Clark, soprano,
Eléazar, a Jewish goldsmith - Zoran Todorovich, tenor
Léopold, Imperial Prince - Matthew Newlin, tenor
Princess Eudoxie, niece of the emperor - Mercedes Arcurí, soprano,
Gian Francesco, Cardinal de Brogni, President of the Council - Shavleg Armasi, bass,
Ruggiero, city provost - Pavel Chervinsky, baritone,
Albert, a sergeant in the emperor's archers - Hubert Zapiór, bass, Hanover State Opera Chorus
Hanover State Opera Auxiliary Chorus
Hanover State Orchestra
Constantin Trinks, conductor Opera Matinee from Hannover Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance of Fromental Halevy's 19th-century grand opera La Juive - "The Jewess" - from Hannover Opera. In its day, La Juive was considered one of the great musical works of its time and might even have inspired moments in Richard Wagner's work. It was largely forgotten for much of the 20th century but has enjoyed a widespread revival in the last twenty years. It tells the story of the love of a Christian man for a Jewish woman and can be regarded as an advocacy for religious tolerance. Cast:
Rachel, the supposed daughter of Eléazar and the 'Jewess' of the title - Hailey Clark, soprano,
Eléazar, a Jewish goldsmith - Zoran Todorovich, tenor
Léopold, Imperial Prince - Matthew Newlin, tenor
Princess Eudoxie, niece of the emperor - Mercedes Arcurí, soprano,
Gian Francesco, Cardinal de Brogni, President of the Council - Shavleg Armasi, bass,
Ruggiero, city provost - Pavel Chervinsky, baritone,
Albert, a sergeant in the emperor's archers - Hubert Zapiór, bass, Hannover State Opera Chorus
Hannover State Opera Auxiliary Chorus
Hannover State Orchestra
Constantin Trinks, conductor |
| Haydn, Stravinsky And Beethoven At The Lucerne Festival | 20181228 | | More orchestral treats from two conductors at the Lucerne Festival: François-Xavier Roth and Mariss Jansons. Haydn's witty 83rd symphony, also known as The Hen; Stravinsky's neo-classical Symphony in 3 movements; a rare chance to hear Beethoven's lesser known Mass - the one in C; plus Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein.
Presented by Jonathan Swain2.00pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor 'La Poule'
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth, conductor 2.20pm
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Beethoven: Mass in C, op. 86
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat, op. 38 ('Spring')
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra
Julia Kleiter, soprano
Gerhild Romberger , contralto
Christian Elsner , tenor
Florian Boesch , bass-baritone
Denis Matsuev , piano
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor Performances of music by Haydn, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Herbert Blomstedt Conducts Bach And Mendelssohn | 20200210 | | The Baltic Sea Festival.
Penny Gore this week introduces performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Today the nonogenarian, Herbert Blomstedt, conducts a joyous solo cantata by Bach and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang. Also today and all this week, there are recordings made at Stockholm's Baltic Sea Festival.
Bach wrote most of his cantatas in Leipzig. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, with its jovial soprano and trumpet parts, really is true to its title: Shout for joy to God in all lands. Over a century later in the same city, Mendelssohn wrote Lobgesang, another work teeming with infectious joy, for the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. The Herbert Blomstedt, yet another former Leipzig resident, puts all of his experience and skill to realizing this optimistic, life-affirming music. Late in the week, there's music by Zemlinsky, the complete Vespers by Rachmaninov and music by the Swede Hugo Alfven and a hommage to Jenny Linde,'the Swedish Nightingale.'Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, cantata
Simona Houda-Šaturová (soprano), Gianluca Calise (piccolo trumpet),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat, op. 52 ('Lobgesang')
Simona Houda-Šaturová (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor),
Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) Arvo Part: L'Abbé Agathon
Maria Listra (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 ('Prague')
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor) Bach and Mendelssohn conducted by Herbert Blomstedt at the Baltic Sea Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Higher And Higher | 20201222 | | Christmas music from the BBC Singers plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights: climb a mountain with Richard Strauss and soar to Paradise with August Read Thomas. Fiona Talkington presents this programme as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season. Christmas music (replacing the previously advertised live concert, cancelled owing to Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions in London)
BBC Singers
Ashley Grote (organ)
Conductor Sofi Jeannin
Presenter Ian Skelly c. 3.30pm
Augusta Read Thomas: 'Juggler in paradise' (Violin Concerto No 3; world premiere)
Jennifer Koh (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek c. 3.50pm
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Semyon Bychkov Christmas music from the BBC Singers, plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Christmas music from the BBC Singers plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights: climb a mountain with Richard Strauss and soar to Paradise with August Read Thomas.Fiona Talkington presents this programme as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season. c. 3.50pm
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Semyon Bychkov |
| Highlights From The Montpelier Festival | 20200414 | | Georgia Mann presents a celebration of highlights from the concert season in France. Today, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Festival, in a programme of Vasks, Liszt and Prokofiev. Then the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, play Brahms and Berlioz. Vasks: Lauda
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124
Kissin: Tango dodécaphonique
Brahms: Waltz in A flat, op. 39/15
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100
Sibelius (1865-1957) - Valse triste, from 'Kuolema, op. 44
Yevgeny Kissin, piano
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Andris Poga, conductor
Recorded at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, last July, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, op. 16
Nicolas Bône, viola
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Recorded last June in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris. Highlights from the French concert season. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Highlights From The Montpellier Festival | 20200414 | | Georgia Mann presents a celebration of highlights from the concert season in France. Today, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Festival, in a programme of Vasks, Liszt and Prokofiev. Then the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, play Brahms and Berlioz. Vasks: Lauda
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124
Kissin: Tango dodécaphonique
Brahms: Waltz in A flat, op. 39/15
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100
Sibelius (1865-1957) - Valse triste, from 'Kuolema, op. 44
Yevgeny Kissin, piano
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Andris Poga, conductor
Recorded at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, last July, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, op. 16
Nicolas Bône, viola
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Recorded last June in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris. Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Highlights From The Montpellier Festival | 20200417 | | Le Concert Spirituel perform at the Montpellier festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Continuing Radio 3's celebration of French orchestras: Hannah French presents a concert from the 2019 Montpellier Festival - Plaisir d'amour: 150th Anniversary of Berlioz's Death. Martini: Messe des morts
Berlioz: Messe solennelle
Adriana Gonzales, soprano
Sébastien Droy, tenor
Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-baritone
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, conductor
Concert given at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, on 17th July 2019. Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Andersen
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Recorded last July at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. |
| Highlights From The Montpellier Festival. | 20200417 | | Continuing Radio 3's celebration of French orchestras: Hannah French presents a concert from the 2019 Montpellier Festival - Plaisir d'amour: 150th Anniversary of Berlioz's Death. Martini: Messe des morts
Berlioz: Messe solennelle
Adriana Gonzales, soprano
Sébastien Droy, tenor
Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-baritone
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, conductor
Concert given at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, on 17th July 2019. Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Andersen
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Recorded last July at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. Highlights from the French concert season. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ibert And Schreker | 20200108 | | Live from Salford, this afternoon's live concert presented by Tom McKinney features two works inspired by the work of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Ibert's symphonic poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, was considered rather daring at the time. Evoking the bleak world of the prison,the composer's first symphonic work both impressed and astonished audiences with its themes of anguish and terror. In contrast, Schreker's music for a pantomime, The Birthday of the Infanta, is a lighter affair, taken from a collection of fairy tales Wilde had published in 1891. Schreker adapts a tragic tale of a hunchbacked dwarf and, despite the story ending in death from a broken heart, its sentimental melodies make the piece still sound as fresh and engaging as ever. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Kate Molleson introduces a piece of music she loves. Ibert: La ballade de la geôle de Reading (The Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin, Suite (The Birthday of the Infanta)
BBC Philharmonic
Holly Mathieson, conductor Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Holly Mathieson. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ibert, Ravel And Strauss From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra | 20190918 | | Music by Ibert and Richard Strauss, featuring pianist Pascal Roge in Ravel's sparkling Piano Concerto in G Presented by Fiona Talkington Yoel Levi puts his KBS Symphony Orchestra through its paces in dazzling showpieces by Ibert and Strauss, one evoking different ports-of-call, the other evoking nothing less than the titanic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In between, French pianist Pascal Roge plays the Concerto in G by one of his heroes: "I think Ravel was my first real French composer....[E]very time I play the Ravel concerto it's still magic....The first love, the first music love is Ravel. I think it's still maybe the closest." 2.00pm
Ibert: Escales
Ravel: Concerto in G
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Pascal Roge, piano
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor Music by Ibert, Ravel and Richard Strauss, featuring French pianist Pascal Roge. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Il Bravo (the Assassin) By Saverio Mercadante From Wexford | 20190117 | | The thrilling 2018 Wexford Festival staging of Saverio Mercadante's opera "Il Bravo" (The Assassin) from the 2018, starring Rubens Pelizzari and Ekaterina Bakanova. Presented by Tom McKinney Saverio Mercadante – Il Bravo (The Assassin) Carlo ("Il bravo").... Rubens Pelizzari (tenor)
Pisani.... Alessandro Luciano (tenor)
Foscari.... Gustavo Castillo (baritone)
Luigi.... Simon Mechlinski (baritone)
Violetta.... Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)
Teodora.... Yasko Sato (soprano)
Cappello.... José de Eça (tenor)
Marco.... Toni Nežić (tenor)
Messenge r.... Richard Shaffrey (tenor)
Michelina.... Ioana Constantin-Pipelea (soprano)
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Jonathan Brandani (conductor) The libretto by Gaetano Rossi and Marco Marcello was based on the play "La Vénétienne" by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, which was in turn based on James Fennimore Cooper's novel "The Bravo". Set in 16th-century Venice, the Bravo of the title is a tormented character who long ago killed his wife in a fit of jealousy; unjustly accused of plotting against the state, he has been forced by the Council of Ten to become their secret hired assassin, while his father is held hostage to compel his obedience. The story also involves Pisani, a young man under sentence of banishment, in love with a girl whom he believes to be immured in Venice; Violetta, the girl in question, who has been under the protection of the Bravo since the murder of her guardian by a would-be abductor; and Teodora, a wealthy foreigner living in Venice, who turns out to be not only Violetta's mother but also the Bravo's wife, whom he had not killed after all. To compound these complications the Bravo, moved by Pisani's predicament, allows him to borrow the mask and dagger of his office and impersonate the official assassin for two days. In this capacity, Teodora employs him to rescue her daughter from the stranger who has apparently abducted her (that is, the Bravo himself). At the end of Act 2 Teodora, in the middle of a brilliant ball, sets fire to her own palace; the last act is largely concerned with the revealing of identities and the unravelling of family knots and, although Violetta and Pisani escape to freedom, Teodora is convicted of arson, and her death at her own hand cheats the Bravo of his last hope of happiness. For full synopsis visit programme page Mercadante's opera Il Bravo (The Assassin) from the 2018 Wexford Festival in Ireland. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Carlo ("Il bravo")....Rubens Pelizzari (tenor)
Pisani....Alessandro Luciano (tenor)
Foscari....Gustavo Castillo (baritone)
Luigi....Simon Mechlinski (baritone)
Violetta....Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)
Teodora....Yasko Sato (soprano)
Cappello....José de Eça (tenor)
Marco....Toni Nežić (tenor)
Messenge r....Richard Shaffrey (tenor)
Michelina....Ioana Constantin-Pipelea (soprano)
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Jonathan Brandani (conductor) |
| Il Corsaro | 20200604 | | Opera matinee: Verdi's Il Corsaro. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Opera matinee: Verdi's Il Corsaro from the Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Presented by Georgia Mann. Verdi: Il Corsaro, opera in three acts after Byron, to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Matheus Pompeu, tenor, Corrado
Ilona Mataradze, soprano, Medora
Karen Gardeazabal, soprano, Gulnara
Aleksey Bogdanov, baritone, Seid
Mateusz Stachura, bass, Giovanni
Paweł Cichoński, tenor, Selimo, Enuco, Schiavo
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, conductor |
| In The Midnight Hour | 20200511 | | In this concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall in March 2018, Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two poems, one by Juan Ramón Jiménez, where music is described as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil). Expect a magic-lantern show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal sounds. Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Concerto, one of the most profound of twentieth century concertos for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the shadows and one that Frang has made her own. To conclude, Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6, where a composer's infatuation with nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, lights the score.
Next, the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin explore one of the landmarks of French 20th-century choral writing - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur's setting of parts of the biblical Song of Songs, Le Cantique des Cantiques. Nigel Hess's theme tune to Ladies in Lavender receives its world premiere broadcast in a new choral arrangement, written for the BBC Singers by the composer, alongside two works for choir by the 20th-century English composer, Ruth Gipps.
Presented by Georgia Mann.2pm
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c.3.40pm
Daniel-Lesur: Le Cantique des Cantiques
Nigel Hess: Kyrie
Ruth Gipps: Easter Hymn
Ruth Gipps: Gloria
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Recently recorded concerts from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| International Women's Day | 20170308 | | As part of International Women's Day, composer Tansy Davies curates today's music composed by female composers, including a couple of her own works, and joins Katie Derham in the studio. 2pm
Tansy Davies: The Beginning of the World (Variations on Sellinger's Round) for string orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Antony Hermus, conductor c.2.10pm
Anna Meredith: Barchan
Donal Bannister, trombone
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Gourlay, conductor c.2.20pm
Liza Lim: Pearl, Ochre, Hair String
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Lothar Zagrosek, conductor c.2.40pm
Helen Grime: Virga
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis, conductor c.2.45pm
Kaija Saariaho: Notes on Light (1st movt: Translucent, Secret)
Anssi Karttunen, cello
Orchestre de Paris
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor c.2.50pm
Rebecca Saunders: Traces
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor c.3.05
Tansy Davies: Tilting
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Zsolt Nagy, conductor. As part of International Women's Day, Katie Derham is joined by composer Tansy Davies. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| International Women's Day | 20180308 | | 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
Judith Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo)
Andrew Tortise (tenor)
Owen Gilhooly (baritone)
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Overture to Céphale et Procris
Performers TBC Kate Whitley: I am I say
Sarah-Jane Lewis (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Kender Primary School Choir
St. John's and St. Clement's Primary School Choir
Lyndhurst Primary School Choir
Multi-Story Orchestra
Conductor Christopher Stark Kaija Saariaho: Petals
Scott Roller (cello)
Thomas Neuhaus (electronics) Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso (Heraclitus in Love)
Dorothée Leclair (soprano)
Lea Rahel Bader (cello)
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord) Arlene Sierra: Aquilo
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Jac van Steen Judith Bingham: Vol de nuit, from The Secret Garden
Tom Winpenny (organ) Hildegard of Bingen: work TBC
Tiburtina Ensemble
Director Barbora Kabátková Sofiya Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 4
Kronos Quartet Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins. 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 |
| Into The Forest | 20181015 | | Presented by Kate Molleson Afternoon Concert goes Into the Forest for a second time this year. As days shorten and shadows lengthen we explore how the dark, mythical forest has touched composers' imaginations, creating some brooding and heartfelt music. Into the Forest is a year-long theme for Radio 3, as the station explores the enduring and magical influence of the forest on music and the arts. We begin the week with a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms in 2015 featuring Jean Sibelius' Tapiola, a tone poem portraying Tapio, the animated forest spirit mentioned throughout the epic poem saga Kalevala. It's followed by Jon Leifs' mighty Concerto for organ and orchestra, with Stephan Farr as soloist. Next comes Anders Hillborg's Beast sampler, a piece dedicated to Sakari Oramo, who conducts this concert, in which the idea of the orchestra as a beast of sound is explored. The concert finishes with Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major. We then travel to the continent for a concert given by the German Symphony Orchestra under David Zinman, starting with Bernstein's Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety, with Misha Dichter on the piano, and closing with Bartok's complete ballet 'The Wooden Prince', in which a forest is awakened by a fairy only to disrupt a prince's attempts to lure his lover. 2.00pm
Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem, Op.112
Jon Leifs: Concerto for organ and orchestra, Op. 7
Anders Hillborg: Beast sampler, for orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92 BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
Stephen Farr, organ 3.20pm
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety'
Bartok: The Wooden Prince (complete ballet) Misha Dichter, piano
German Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor Into the Forest season with music by Sibelius, Leifs, Hillborg and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Into The Forest | 20181016 | | Presented by Kate Molleson As autumn gets under way, Radio 3's Forest season continues its exploration of how the darkness and mystery of the woods has inspired composers throughout time. Today's journey Into the Forest starts & ends with music by Arnold Schoenberg, with Stravinsky, Humperdinck & Schreker en route.
We open with the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena performing Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas and Melissande, the story of a doomed love affair which starts atmospherically in a forest. The afternoon continues with a concert given in Portugal by the Gulbenkian Orchestra with Matthias Pintscher as conductor - and also composer, as we hear his piece for violin and orchestra 'Mar'eh', with soloist Renaud Capucon. It's followed by Stravinsky's complete ballet version of The Firebird, a magical creature from the forest. Finally, Schoenberg's orchestration of his Verklärte Nacht - Transfigured Night - is based on Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name which opens with the words "Two people are walking through a bare, cold wood; the moon keeps pace with them and draws their gaze." Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande - symphonic poem, Op. 5
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor 2.40pm
Pintscher: 'Mar'eh' for violin and orchestra
Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet version)
Renaud Capucon, violin
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor 3.50pm
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel – Overture
Dresden State Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor Franz Schreker: Der ferne Klang: Nachtstuck - orchestral interlude
Royal Swedish Orchestra
Lawrence Renes, conductor 4.15pm
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
German Symphony Orchestra Berlin
Riccardo Chailly, conductor This journey Into the Forest starts and ends with Schoenberg, with Stravinsky and Schreker Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Into The Forest | 20181017 | | Presented by Kate Molleson Forest by Judith Weir opens today's programme, appropriately, as part of our Into the Forest season - a year-long theme for Radio 3, exploring the enduring and magical influence of the woods on music and the arts. It's performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Martyn Brabbins. Then we turn to a concert given recently by the Ulster Orchestra, under Eivind Gullberg Jensen, with Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, by Edvard Grieg, featuring the incidental music he wrote for a play by Ibsen in which nature, including forests and mountains, play a crucial role. The concert is followed by Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, with Simon Trpceski as soloist, finishing with Carl Nielsen's powerful and enigmatic Symphony No. 5. Weir: Forest BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor Grieg: Peer Gynt - Suite No. 1, Op.46
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra, Op. 43
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 Ulster Orchestra
Simon Trpceski, piano
Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor Weir's Forest with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra with music by Grieg Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Into The Forest | 20181019 | | Presented by Kate Molleson As we close this week's contribution to Radio 3's Into the Forest season, looking at the magical influence of the woods on music and the arts, the afternoon starts with Dvorak's The Golden Spinning-wheel, a fairy tale featuring the forest, played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under conductor Thomas Sondergard. Then we travel to France for a concert featuring excerpts from Georges Enescu's Suite No. 1, Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Evegeny Kissin as soloist, and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen Suite - again a piece where the forest plays a significant role - finishing with Kodaly's Dances from Galatea. Lawrence Foster conducts the Orchestre National de France. The afternoon closes with Bartok's dark opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, performed by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Jaap van Zweden. The bass Mikhail Petrenko is Bluebeard and the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is Judith. Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-wheel, Op.109 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor 2.20pm
Enescu: Suite No. 1 in C, Op. 9 – excerpts
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite
Kodaly: Dances from Galanta Evgeny Kissin, piano
Orchestre National de France
Lawrence Foster, conductor 3.45pm
Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle Bluebeard -Mikhail Petrenko, bass
Judith - Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, conductor BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays music by Dvorak. Part of the Into the Forest season. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields | 20190306 | | The BBC Singers and Bang on a Can All-Stars, conducted by Tecwyn Evans, perform the oratorio Anthracite Fields by the American composer Julia Wolfe. It was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. It commemorates the history of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region and it has been described as "an unforgettably haunting, harrowing evocation of the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners, incorporating many musical styles and effectively shadowy visuals." Plus Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bax's tone poem, The Garden of Fand, inspired by the Irish Celtic sea goddess Fand.
Presented by Kate MollesonJulia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
BBC Singers
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Tecwyn Evans (conductor) 3.10pm
Bax: The Garden of Fand
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) BBC Singers and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Knussen, Ariosi, Berg And Dvorak | 20190621 | | With Tom McKinney. Today's Concert: 2pm:
Knussen Flourish with Fireworks
Henze Ariosi, for soprano, violin and orchestra
Berg Three Fragments from 'Wozzeck' for soprano and orchestra
Dvorak Symphony no 9 (From the New World)
BBC Philharmonic / Moritz Gnann (conductor)
Clio Gould (violin)
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Allison Oakes (soprano) c.3.30pm:
Antheil McKonkey's Ferry, Overture
BBC Philharmonic / John Storgards (conductor) c.3.40pm:
Jonathan Dove Run to the Edge
BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond (conductor) c.3.45pm:
Bliss Mêlée fantasque
BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor) Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Kurt Weill: The Firebrand Of Florence | 20210204 | | Kurt Weill: The Firebrand of Florence
Broadway operetta in two acts.
Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.
Book by Edwin Justus Mayer, based on his play The Firebrand.The BBC Symphony Orchestra assembled an all-star cast for this landmark recreation at London's Barbican Centre in 2000 of the work with which Kurt Weill hoped to lead American musical theatre in a new direction. Although The Firebrand was, in Weill's words,' killed by its production,' it contains sumptuous music on a scale not seen on Broadway before. It's based on scenes from the life of the Renaissance sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini who has been sentenced to hang for the attempted murder of Count Maffio. It opens with a memorable scene in Florence's public square where Cellini awaits his fate and it ends with jugglers and dancers in faraway Fontainebleau. But, in between, there are twists and turns of love, betrayal and adventure with numbers like, 'You're Far Too Near Me,' 'When the Duchess is Away,' The Little Naked Boy,' 'Love is Enemy' and finally a reprise of 'Life, Love and Laughter.'
Presented by Penny Gore. Benvenuto Cellini.... Rodney Gilfry (baritone)
Angel, his model and paramour.... Lori Ann Fuller (soprano)
Alessandro de Medici.... George Dvorsky.... (bass)
The Duchess of Florence.... Felicity Palmer.... (mezzo)
Emilia, Cellini's servant.... Lucy Schauffer.... (mezzo)
Ascanio, Cellini's apprentice.... Stephen Charlesworth.... (baritone)
Ottaviano de Medici, the Duke's treacherous cousin.... Roger Heath.... (bass)
Marquis Pierre, the French Ambassador.... Robert Johnston.... (tenor)
A Hangman.... Henry Waddington.... (bass)
Maffio, a villainous Florentine count.... Stuart MacIntyre.... (baritone)
Simon Russell Beale.... (narrator) BBC Singers [Chorus Master: Stephen Betteridge]
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor) Followed at c. 4pm by another work in this week's series exploring Music from the Frozen North. Today a short work which charts the no man's land between acoustic and electronic music from a composer who works regularly with artists such as his fellow Icelander, Bjork. Valgeir Sigurðsson: Eighteen hundred and seventy-five for orchestra and electronics
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) Anna Clyne: Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence \u2013 an 'opera for Broadway' recreated. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lichfield Festival | 20201013 | | During the second year of their residency at the Lichfield Festival in 2019, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performed two major works featuring “codes” in music: Shostakovich's Cello Concerto no. 1, with its theme taken from a musical cryptogram of the composer's initials, and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Plus Elgar's sumptuous song cycle Sea Pictures with soloist Polly Leech - all recorded in the sumptuous acoustics of Lichfield Cathedral. This concert marked the the debut appearance with the orchestra of conductor Ainars Rubikis.
Plus choral music by Bruckner and new BBC NOW recordings of Matthew Taylor's 4th Symphony and works by two of Shostakovich's contemporaries, Russian Alexander Veprik and Frenchman Henri Dutilleux.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.Elgar: Sea Pictures
with Polly Leech (mezzo soprano)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107
with Andrei Ionita (cello)
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ainars Rubikis (conductor) c.3.25pm
Bruckner: Christus factus est; Os justi; Locus iste
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor) c.3.35pm
Matthew Taylor: Symphony No. 4
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods (conductor) c.4.05pm
Alexander Veprik: Song of Mourning; Song of Joy
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor) c.4.20pm
Dutilleux: Metaboles
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor) Elgar and Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Lichfield Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ligeti And Libby Larsen | 20190304 | | In the run up to International Women's Day, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers are celebrating women composers and performers all week during the afternoons. Today's programme includes works by Libby Larsen, Deborah Pritchard, Aftab Darvishi, Cecilia McDowall and Victoria Borisova-Ollas. It includes a project from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors to encourage compositions around the theme of refugees and freedom. Alexander Vedernikov brings the afternoon to a rousing close with the wonderfully powerful 4th Symphony of Shostakovich, which is full of thrusting energy and excitement.
Presented by Kate MollesonLigeti
Éjszaka – Reggel
Zwei Kanons
Drei Phantasien
Idegen földön
Húsvét
Betlehemi királyok
Lux Aeterna
Magány
Nonsense Madrigals
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (Conductor) 2.55pm
Libby Larsen
Deep Summer Music
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis (conductor) 3.05pm
Deborah Pritchard: EXODUS
Aftab Darvishi: And the world stopped, lacking you…
Cecilia McDowall: Everyday Wonders: The Girl from
Harriet Mackenzie (violinist)
Richard Pearce (pianist)
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor) 3.40pm
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Open ground for orchestra 10'54”
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis (conductor) 3.50pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) Includes works by Libby Larsen, Deborah Pritchard, Aftab Darvishi and Cecilia McDowall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lindberg, Kabalevsky And Bartok | 20190305 | | We welcome the 33-year old Finnish-Ukranian, Dalia Stasevska, principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the opening concert of the afternoon: works by Magnus Lindberg, Dmitry Kabalevsky and Bela Bartok. Soprano, Rachel Nicholls performs, The Crimson Bird, the shocking and consoling work Nicola LeFanu wrote for her to a text by John Fuller. The afternoon ends with Strauss's glorious Symphony for Wind Instruments "Fröhliche Werkstatt".
Presented by Kate MollesonMagnus Lindberg: 2 Episodes for orchestra
Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.49 for cello and orchestra
Bela Bartok: Concerto Sz.116 for orchestra
Jonathan Roozeman (Cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor) 3.25pm
Lydia Jane Pugh: Adirai (Misplaced)
Katarina Pustinek Rakar: Das Rufen der Seelen
BBC Singers
Conductor: James Morgan 3.35pm
Nicola Lefanu: The Crimson Bird for soprano and orchestra
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 4.05pm
Vaughan Williams: Darest Thou Now O Soul
BBC Symphony Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins 4.10pm
Strauss: Symphony for Wind Instruments "Fröhliche Werkstatt"
BBC Symphony Orchestra Wind
Douglas Boyd (conductor) Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Lindberg, Kabalevsky and Bartok. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Live - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20191122 | | Live from Maida Vale studios in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing Jennifer Higdon's Blue Cathedral, Ries's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Dvorak's Symphony No. 6, under the baton of Ryan Bancroft. Presented by Natasha Riordan.
Then, coming back to the Radio 3 studio, the Ulster Orchestra. our featured ensemble this week, with Mendelssohn's orchestral concert overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, inspired by the same verses Beethoven set in his 1815 cantata of the same name. Presented by Hannah French.2.00pm LIVE from Maida Vale studios, London. Presented by Natasha Riordan
Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op.55
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No.6 in D major, Op. 60
Alexandra Dariescu, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Bancroft, conductor 16.05pm Presented by Hannah French
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage - concert overture
The Ulster Orchestra
Mihhail Gerts, conductor With music by Jennifer Higdon, Ries and Dvorak, conducted by Ryan Bancroft. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Live From Salford - Bbc Philharmonic | 20190403 | | Live from Media City in Salford, Tom McKinney presents a concert with the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Clemens Schuldt: Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon Hofele, then Stravinsky's suite from his ballet Pulcinella. The concert ends with Mozart's Symphony No. 26 in E flat major, K161a.
The afternoon finishes with another work from the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers, the first of Helen Grime's Two Eardley Pictures - presented by Fiona Talkington.2.00pm
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, suite
Mozart: Symphony No. 26 in E flat, K161a
BBC Philharmonic
Simon Hofele (trumpet)
Clemens Schuldt (conductor) 3.00pm
2018 International Rostrum of Composers
Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures: No. 1 “Catterline in Winter”
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Clemens Schuldt conducts Beethoven, Haydn, Stravinsky and Mozart. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Live From Salford: Bbc Philharmonic And Bbc Singers | 20200303 | | Live from Salford - presented by Sarah Walker.
The BBC Philharmonic performing at MediaCity with repertoire including two pieces by the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, his Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra, and his piece Pan, featuring soprano Claudia Barainsky, performed as bookends. In the middle comes Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Anastasia Kobekina. The orchestra is conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.
Then the afternoon continues with Penny Gore presenting excerpts from a concert given recently by the BBC Singers in which conductor Sofi Jeannin explored German Romantic repertoire, including Abendfeier in Vendedig by Clara Schumann and some arrangements for choir of songs by Schubert.
Next come two pieces by Detlev Glanert, taken from the recent BBC SO's Total Immersion season dedicated to the German composer's work, first his Three Pieces for viola and piano followed by one of his Three Songs on poems by Christoph Klimke, performed by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
It's followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with music that lays down roots in ritual and lament. After the meditative stillness of Arvo Pärt's sonic sculpture in memory of a dear colleague, we hear the fruits of the first Greek composer ever commissioned for the BBC SO's Barbican concerts: Dimitrios Skyllas's Kyrie Eleison.2.00pm - Live from Salford
Ben-Haim: Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Ben-Haim: Pan* John Bradbury, clarinet
Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Claudia Barainsky*, soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor 3.15pm
Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig
Schubert, arr. Lydia Smallwood: An die Musik*
Schubert: Psalm 43*
Brahms: Six Quartets op.112* Richard Pearce, piano*
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor 3.50pm
Glanert: Three Pieces Op.1, for viola and piano (1982)
Agnieszka Zyniewicz, viola
Matthew Gemmill, piano Glanert: Three Songs on Poems by Christoph Klimke – no.1; Schatten schlafen (2014)
Jonathan De Garis, baritone
Matthew Gemmill, piano 4.10pm
Arvo Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Dimitrios Skyllas: Kyrie Eleison (World Premiere; BBC & Onassis Cultural Centre co-commission) BBC Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor Music by Ben-Haim and Elgar. Then choral pieces by Clara Schumann and Schubert. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Live Music From Salford | 20200226 | | The BBC Philharmonic with music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Live Music With The Bbc Philharmonic | 20190327 | | Bantock The Sea Reivers
Sally Beamish Piano Concerto No 2 ‘Cauldron of the Speckled Seas'
Sibelius Symphony No 7BBC Philharmonic / Rory Macdonald / Martin Roscoe (piano)
from MediaCityUK, Salford Martinů Dream of the past BBC Philharmonic / John Storgards
Rec. March 22 2019 at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Bantock and Beamish live from the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2017. James Galway Plays Mozart; Riccardo Chailly Conducts Stravinsky | 20180119 | | Tom McKinney rounds off this Afternoon Concert week of highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival with two complete concerts - and a bonus track. Flautist James Galway joins the festival's long-time resident chamber orchestra in Mozart and Riccardo Chailly conducts the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Stravinsky - including the Swiss premiere of his recently rediscovered Funeral Song - plus Ligeti's Piano Concerto from the young stars-to-be of the Lucerne Festival Academy. Mozart: Symphony No 29 in A major, K201; Flute Concerto No 2 in D major, K314
Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande Suite
James Galway (flute)
Lucerne Festival Strings
Conductor Daniel Dodds (violin) 3.15pm
Ligeti: Piano Concerto
David Kadouch (piano)
Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble
Director Matthias Pintscher 3.35pm
Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op 2
(with Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano); Scherzo fantastique, Op 3; Fireworks, Op 4; Chant funèbre, Op 5; The Rite of Spring
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor Riccardo Chailly. Music by Mozart and Sibelius from the Lucerne Festival Strings and flautist James Galway. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2017: Bernard Haitink Conducts The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe | 20180117 | | 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
Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C major, K 425 (Linz)
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor Bernard Haitink. Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2017: Mirga Grazinyte-tyla Conducts The City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | 20180116 | | Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival, including a concert by the City of Birmingham SO with their Music Director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. 2pm
Peteris Vasks: Cantabile
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44
Gautier Capuçon (cello)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla 3.30pm
Zimmermann: Contrasts (Kontraste) - music to an imaginary ballet
Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble
Director Heinz Holliger 3.40pm
Bartók: The Wooden Prince
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductor Matthias Pintscher 4.35pm
Michel van der Aa: Hysteresis for clarinet, ensemble and soundtrack
Martin Adámek (clarinet)
Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble
Director Matthias Pintscher. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the City of Birmingham SO at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2017: Riccardo Chailly Conducts Strauss | 20180115 | | Tom McKinney presents a week of orchestral highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival. He launches the series with the Festival's opening concert, an all-Richard Strauss programme played by the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Plus 20th and 21st century music played by the stars-to-be of the Lucerne Festival Academy. 2pm
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verklärung; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor Riccardo Chailly 3.25pm
Lisa Streich: Segel (world premiere)
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer 3.40pm
Debussy, orch. Koechlin: Khamma
Koechlin: Les Bandar-log
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductor Heinz Holliger 4.30pm
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble
Director Matthias Pintscher Lakes, mountains and some of the world's best music-making: the Lucerne Festival takes place every August and September in the state-of-the-art concert halls of the Culture and Congress Centre on the banks of stunning Lake Lucerne, with its jaw-dropping Alpine backdrop. n Afternoon Concert this week Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 festival - beginning and ending with concerts by the remarkable Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founded by the late Claudio Abbado in 2013, and formed anew every summer by leading international orchestral and chamber musicians. The orchestra's current music director Riccardo Chailly conducts programmes focusing on music from the turn of the 20th century by two very different precocious young composers: the German Richard Strauss and the Russian Igor Stravinsky. We'll also hear concerts by visiting orchestras - the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Bernard Haitink on Wednesday and the UK's own City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their Music Director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla on Tuesday - and on Friday flautist James Galway joins the festival's long-time resident chamber orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Strings. Plus throughout the week Tom also features the 130 highly gifted young players of the Lucerne Festival Academy, who come from all over the world to study and perform music of the 20th century and our own day. We stay in Switzerland for Opera Matinee on Thursday, with a Geneva production of Rossini's comedy The Barber of Seville, conducted by Jonathan Nott - 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. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2018 | 20181224 | | Two high-energy 20th Century works with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by François-Xavier Roth in a concert taken from this year's Lucerne Festival. First, Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra, which was the last work he composed just before he fled Hungary during the outbreak of World War II. It is less intense than his preceding works and its outer movements shine out with a joyful optimism. Then, cellist Sol Gabetta joins the orchestra for a rare performance of Martinů's Cello Concerto No. 1 in D. After Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra the afternoon finishes with a performance of Bruckner's Mass no 2 in e minor interspersed with movements from Henri Tomasi's Fanfares liturgiques. The concert is presented by Jonathan Swain. 2.00pm
Béla Bartók: Divertimento
Martinů: Cello Concerto No. 1 in D Sol Gabetta, cello
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth, conductor 3.00pm
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra 'Dialogues'
Pierre-Laurent Aimard , piano
Tamara Stefanovich , piano
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher , conductor 3.30pm
Bruckner: Os justi
Tomasi: Annonciation, from 'Fanfares liturgiques'
Bruckner: Kyrie, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor
Bruckner: Gloria, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor
Tomasi: Evangile, from 'Fanfares liturgiques'
Bruckner: Credo, from Mass No. 2 in E minor
Tomasi: Apocalypse, from 'Fanfares liturgiques'
Bruckner: Sanctus, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor
Bruckner: Benedictus, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor
Bruckner: Agnus Dei, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor
Tomasi: Procession nocturne, from 'Fanfares liturgiques'
Lucerne Academy Chorus
Instrumentalists of the Lucerne Conservatory
Ulrike Grosch , conductor The Mahler Chamber Orchestra performs Bartok and Martin\u016f at the 2018 Lucerne Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Lucerne Festival 2019 And Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana | 20200518 | | We'll spend this week in Switzerland with concerts from festivals featuring local and visiting groups. Plus music from one of the most representative ensembles in the country, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, based in Lugano. We start at the Lucerne Festival 2019 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Jakub Hrůša. Then we visit the Ascona Music Festival 2019 with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under its principal conductor, Markus Poschner. Presented by Hannah French 2.00pm
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor 2.40pm
Rossini: Overture to 'L'Italiana in Algeri'
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, Hob. I:92 ('Oxford')
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques, for piano, winds and percussion
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Markus Poschner, conductor 3.55pm
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, concert suite from the ballet (1945 version)
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Markus Poschner, conductor With music by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini, Haydn, Bartok, Messiaen and Stravinsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Mahler And Prokofiev From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra | 20190916 | | Mahler's monumental Symphony No 9, plus a violin concerto by Prokofiev and an unseasonal piece by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave Presented by Fiona Talkington Kicking off a week of programmes featuring Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra, music director and principal conductor Yoel Levi is on the podium in Mahler's last completed symphony. They are joined by American violinist Stefan Pi Jackiw in Prokofiev's sensuous Concerto No 2 The programme also celebrates Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, who celebrated her ninetieth birthday last year 2.00pm
Mahler: Symphony No 9
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor 3.30pm
Musgrave: A Song for Christmas
Hannah Holgersson, soprano
Stefan Lindgren, piano 3.40pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2
Stefan Pi Jackiw, violin
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor The KBS Symphony Orchestra perform works by Mahler, Prokofiev and Thea Musgrave. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Mahler's Resurrection Symphony From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin | 20190930 | | Mahler's all embracing 'Resurrection' Symphony opens a week of concerts by Ireland's RTE National Symphony Orchestra recorded in Dublin during their 2018/19 season. Plus music by Gerard Victory, a prolific Irish composer who described his output as a 'crowded landscape where plants of every kind imaginable rub shoulders uneasily', and the penultimate Piano Concerto of John Field, performed by Venetian pianist Alessandro Taverna. Presented by Tom McKinney. 2.00pm
Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection'
Orla Boylan, soprano
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo
RTE Philharmonic Choir
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Robert Trevino, conductor 3.25pm
Gerard Victory: Three Irish Pictures
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Henty, conductor 3.40pm
John Field: Piano Concerto No 6
Alessandro Taverna, piano
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Henty, conductor Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, plus music by Gerard Victory and John Field Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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
Copland: Lincoln Portrait
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26
Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (From the New World)
Alan C Page (speaker)
Esther Yoo (violin)
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor) 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. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Rafal Blechacz (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor) 3.35pm
Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No 1 (At the Octoroon Balls)
Players from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 4.15pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K414
Richard Egarr (piano/director)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 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. The Minnesota Orchestra performs music by Brahms and Stravinsky with director Osmo Vanska. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - 21st-century European Concert Halls | 20170227 | | Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st century European concert halls, including the inauguration concert from the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg plus highlights from the Helsinki Music Centre with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu. 2pm:
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg inauguration concert, including: Dutilleux: Mystère de l'instant Parts 1-3
Cyril Dupuy (cimbalom)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Emilio de' Cavalieri: Dalle più alte sfere, aria from 'La Pellegrina'
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Soloist: Margert Köll (baroque harp) Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Photoptosis
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Rolf Liebermann: Furioso
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Wagner: Prelude to 'Parsifal'
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Wolfgang Rihm: Reminiszenz: Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny
Jahnn (Première)
Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (4th movement: 'Ode to Joy')
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano)
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano)
Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
NDR Chorus
Bavarian Radio Chorus
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock c. 3.45pm:
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622
Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchsetra
Conductor Hannu Lintu. Featuring the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg inauguration concert. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - American Ensembles And Repertoire | 20170417 | | Catriona Young introduces a mix of European and Latin American repertoire, played by both the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a thread which will be explored throughout the whole week. Today, the programme starts in Sao Paulo with a contemporary Brazilian composer, Paul Costa Lima, and his 'Cabinda: Nos Somos Pretos', a symphonic overture commissioned recently by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp), premiered by today's conductor Marin Alsop, the ensemble's Principal Conductor. It's followed by Chopin's First Piano Concerto with Denis Kozhukhin as soloist, and then Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony. Then comes the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, at the helm of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, for more Latin American music. First, Piazzolla's Tangazo, which is followed by Ginastera's dances from his ballet Estancia. 2.00pm
Paulo Costa Lima
Cabinda: Nos Somos Pretos, symphonic overture, Op. 104
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp)
Marin Alsop, conductor 2.16pm
Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp)
Denis Kozhukhin, piano
Marin Alsop, conductor 3.00pm
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp)
Marin Alsop, conductor 3.42pm
Piazzolla
Tangazo: Variations on Buenos Aires
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alondra de la Parra, conductor 4.00pm
Ginastera
Estancia, Op. 8a
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alondra de la Parra, conductor. Including the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra playing Paulo Costa Lima, Chopin and Prokofiev. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Concert Orchestra | 20170605 | | with Katie Derham. An afternoon of music from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including new CD releases and a concert given in March in Watford Colosseum with their Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth, drawing on his many years in the world of ballet. 2pm
Arnold: Water (Homage to the Queen)
Gavin Gordon: Les Noces imaginaires
c.2.40pm
Delibes: Coppelia (highlights)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth c.3.25pm
Chaminade: Concertstück in C sharp minor, Op 40
c.3.45pm
Bliss: Violin Concerto
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates. The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Arnold, Gordon, Delibes, Chaminade and Bliss. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170307 | 20170306 (R3) | Katie Derham presents The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British music including women composers in the week of International Women's Day (Wednesday).
Hilary Tann's arresting fanfare commemorates the tragic events of Tiananmen Square in 1989, and Adam Walker is the brilliant young soloist in the flute concerto by the orchestra's Composer in Association - Huw Watkins. Rumon Gamba continues his exploration of forgotten tone poems, and Ethel Smyth's Double Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra prepares the way for Thursday's opera - The Boatswain's Mate.2pm
Hilary Tann: The Open Field
BBC NOW
Tecwyn Evans, conductor c.2.10
Austin: Spring
BBC NOW
Rumon Gamba, conductor c.2.25
Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto
Adam Walker, flute
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard, conductor c.3pm
John Pickard: Symphony No. 5
BBC NOW
Martyn Brabbins, conductor c.3.45pm
Ethel Smyth: Double Concerto
Elena Urioste, violin
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
BBC NOW
Daniel Blendulf, conductor. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Tann, Watkins, Pickard and Ethel Smyth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170424 | | Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including recent concerts and new studio recordings. Today features a concert the orchestra gave at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre with some staples of the romantic repertoire: Strauss, Brahms - and Leonard Elschenbroich is soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Plus a new recording of the Symphony No.1 by the Anglo-Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren, scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, and based on the same source material as Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. 2pm
Strauss: Die Fledermaus - Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor) c.3.35pm
Handel: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op.6 No.6
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rachel Podger (director) c.3.45pm
Dieren: Symphony No. 1, Op.6, (Chinese)
Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Nathan Vale (tenor)
Morgan Pearse (baritone)
David Soar (bass)
BBC National Chorus Of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton (conductor). The BBC NOW performs music by Strauss, Elgar, Brahms, Handel and Dieren. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170619 | | Verity Sharp begins this week of music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today from a concert recorded at La Seine Musicale in Paris, including repertoire conducted by Thomas Sondergard by Britten, Sibelius and joined by James Ehnes in Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. 2pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.2.15pm
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor
James Ehnes, violin
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.3pm
Sibelius: Symphony No.6 in D minor, Op.104
BBC NOW
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c.3.30pm
Delius: Paris - the Song of a Great City
BBC NOW
Rumon Gamba (conductor) c.3.50pm
Gershwin: An American in Paris
BBC NOW
Eric Stern (conductor). The BBC NOW performs music by Britten, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Delius and Gershwin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20170925 | | Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a series of concerts and recordings to launch Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. The 2pm concert was recorded in Swansea and includes Strauss's Don Juan, and we'll also hear a performance of Saint-Saëns's devilish tone poem Danse Macabre. Plus symphonies by Beethoven and Brahms. 2pm
Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.68 (Pastoral)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl (conductor) c.3.30pm
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre - symphonic poem, Op.40
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl (conductor) c.3.40pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor). Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing tone poems. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales | 20171016 | | 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
Tan Dun: Internet Symphony No.1 (Eroica)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) c.3.25pm
Mark Bowden: Heartland - percussion concerto
Julian Warburton (percussion)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Saint-Saëns: Phaéton - symphonic poem, Op.39
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl (conductor) Peter Dickinson: Monologue for Strings
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell (conductor) Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.19
Matthew Trusler (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Satie: Parade - ballet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martin Yates (conductor). Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Berlioz and Saint-Saens. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales' 90th Anniversary Celebrations | 20180409 | | 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 begins her journey through the orchestra's nine-decade history with a vintage recording of its first appearance at the BBC Proms in 1971. and explores the role the ensemble plays in showcasing the work of Welsh composers. Haydn - Symphony No. 92. in G major ' Oxford'
Stravinsky - Violin Concerto in D major Esther Glazer (violin)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Irwin Hoffman (conductor) c. 4pm Hoddinott - Symphony No. 6, Op. 116 BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Alun Hoddinott (conductor). Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert | 20180122 | | 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
Weber: overture to Oberon, J306
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33
Tchaikovsky; Pezzo capriccioso, Op 62
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92
Alexey Stadler (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor) c. 3.15pm
Elgar: Serenade in E minor for String Orchestra, Op 20
BBC NOW
Tadaaki Otaka (cond) Prokofiev: Scythian Suite from "Ala i Lolly", Op 20
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor) c. 4.30pm
Bartok: Divertimento, Sz113
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live In Cardiff | 20171211 | | 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.
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London town) - overture Op.40
Elgar: Sea pictures Op.37
Elgar: Serenade in E minor Op.20 for string orchestra
Elgar: In the south (Alassio) - overture Op.50 Claudia Huckle (contralto)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) 3.45pm - Back to Broadcasting House with Verity Sharp
Haydn: Symphony no. 88 in G major H.1.88
Mahler: Symphony no. 7 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor). Live from Cardiff music by Elgar with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20170220 | | Catriona Young presents a week of performance by the BBC Philharmonic, incorporating Afternoon on 3's British music theme, along with performances conducted by John Wilson. British music today includes Bax's Tintagel, Haydn's Military Symphony, and the Violin Concerto by Thomas Adès titled Concentric Paths. Plus a performance of Bruckner's mighty Seventh Symphony recorded in the Bridgewater Hall in December. 2pm
Bax: Tintagel
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) Haydn: Symphony No 100 in G major (Military)
BBC Philharmonic
Jamie Phillips (conductor) c.2.40pm
Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths (Violin Concerto)
Daniel Pioro (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor) c.3pm
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Bax, Haydn, Ades and Bruckner. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20170410 | | Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Philharmonic in Wagner, Lindberg and Ravel, with violinist Sarah Chang in the concerto by Sibelius 2.00pm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Act One
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor 2.10pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
Sarah Chang, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor 2.40pm
Mendelssohn: Symphony o.4 In D, Op.90 'Italian'
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor 3.05pm
Magnus Lindberg: Vivo
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor 3.15pm
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor. The BBC Philharmonic in music by Wagner, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Lindberg and Ravel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20170612 | | Penny Gore presents a week of recordings by the BBC Philharmonic from their home at MediaCity in Salford. In today's programme, the orchestra performs symphonies by Copland and Brahms. Xiayin Wang is the soloist in Ginastera's first piano concerto, with conductor Juanjo Mena. 2.00pm
Copland
Symphony No 2 (Short Symphony)
BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor) Ginastera
Piano Concerto No 1, Op 28
Xiayin Wang (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.2.40pm
Milhaud
La création du monde - ballet, Op 81a
BBC Philharmonic, Jamie Phillips (conductor) Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Gourlay (conductor) c.3.25pm
Ibert
Divertissement for orchestra [from music for 'The Italian straw hat']
BBC Philharmonic, Jamie Phillips (conductor) c.3.45pm
Brahms
Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor). BBC Philharmonic in music by Copland, Ginastera, Milhaud, Schumann, Ibert and Brahms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171009 | | 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
Weber: Euryanthe, overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Symphony No 4
David Garrett (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) c. 3.30pm
Elgar: In the South
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Esther Yoo (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor) Elgar: Serenade for Strings
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor). Tom Redmond presents concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, focusing on works by Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20171204 | | 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:
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Pietari Inkinen (conductor) c.3.30pm:
Roussel: Pour une fête de printemps
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) c.3.40pm:
James MacMillan: For Sonny
Britten: Lachrymae
Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)
BBC Philharmonic
Lee Reynolds (conductor) c.4.15pm:
Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor). Pietari Inkinen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180108 | | Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today, Simone Young conducts Brett Dean's Testament, with Jonathan Biss the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 and Sally Beamish's City Stanzas (Piano Concerto No 3). Then the Enigma Variations and the Cello concerto by Elgar, with Asier Polo the soloist and Juanjo Mena the conductor. 2pm:
Brett Dean: Testament
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1
Sally Beamish: City Stanzas (Piano Concerto No 3)
Elgar Enigma Variations
BBC Philharmonic
Jonathan Biss (piano)
Simone Young (conductor) c.3.50pm:
Bantock: Thalaba the Destroyer
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor) c.4.20pm:
Elgar: Cello Concerto
BBC Philharmonic
Asier Polo (cello)
Juanjo Mena (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180312 | | 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:
Mozart: Overture, Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat major, Op 73 'Emperor'
Brahms: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op 73
Louis Schwitzgebel (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.30pm:
Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major, Hob.VIIb/1
Matthew Barley (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
David Greilsammer (conductor) c.3.55pm:
Beethoven: Overture, Egmont
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic perform a selection of Beethoven and his connections. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic | 20180416 | | Tom Redmond introduces a week of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic, including music by Rebel, Richard Strauss, Thomas Adès and Ravel. 2pm:
Rebel - Les élémens (selection)
Richard Strauss - Divertimento: Les tours de passe-passe
Thomas Adès - Three Studies from Couperin
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor) c.2.55pm:
Harrison Birtwistle - Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
BBC Philharmonic
David Greilsammer (conductor) c.3.07pm:
Debussy - Ibéria
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.30pm:
Mica Levi - Everlast (UK premiere)
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.3.45pm:
Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto no 1
Dvořák - Silent Woods
Roussel - Suite in F
Andrei Ionita (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor). Tom Redmond introduces a week of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk | 20180625 | | 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:
Copland - Old American Songs, Set 2
Rachmaninov - Symphony no 2 in E minor Op 27
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.15pm:
Robert Farnon - Lake of the Woods
Edward German - Nocturne from Romeo and Juliet, incidental music
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.3.30pm:
Copland - Symphony no 3
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.4.10pm:
Stravinsky - Fireworks
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot (conductor) c.4.15pm:
Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor) c.4.20pm:
Roussel - Suite in F
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) c.4.35pm:
Copland - Dance Symphony
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor). Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Philharmonic On Tour | 20170626 | | Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic on tour in Spain, Austria, Germany and China. Including: 2pm
Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmilla, overture
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
Pablo Ferrandez (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.2.50pm
Tan Dun
The Tears of Nature
Martin Grubinger (percussion), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) Peter Eotvos
Speaking Drums
Martin Grubinger (percussion), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) c.3.50pm
Elgar
Enigma Variations
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor). The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Glinka, Dvorak, Tan Dun, Peter Eotvos and Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170501 | | Catriona Young presents a week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes music from a new CD of works by the leading Scottish modernist composer Erik Chisholm. There's a concert the Orchestra gave at Ayr Town Hall - Valeriy Sokolov is soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto, followed by Vaughan Williams' Symphony No.5. Plus there's a Beethoven theme running across the week: today's work is his Piano Concerto No.4. And as part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution -
Reformation Bytes
3/5: A Catholic Composer's View on Luther's Influence.
The Catholic composer Stephen Hough muses on the influence of Protestant individualism on the composer or soloist seeking their personal voice. 2pm
Chisholm: From the true edge of the great world - preludes for orchestra
(Song of the Mavis; Ossianic Lay; Port a Beul)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.2.10pm
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op.58, for piano and orchestra
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.2.45pm
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op.14
c.3.30pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major
Valeriy Sokolov (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Nick Carter (conductor). The BBC SSO performs music by Chisholm, Beethoven, Ravel, Barber and Vaughan Williams. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170522 | | Katie Derham presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave at Sage Gateshead with soprano Erin Wall as soloist in Strauss's Four Last Songs, and Elgar's First Symphony. Plus Julian Anderson's poem for violin and orchestra 'In lieblicher Blaue', and the first of a new recording of piano concertos by Sterndale Bennett which are featured across the week. 2pm
Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op.1
Howard Shelley (piano/director)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra c.2.25pm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude & Liebestod
Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder c.3.05pm
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op.55
Erin Wall (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.55pm
Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Blaue - poem for violin and orchestra
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). The BBC SSO performs music by WS Bennett, Wagner, Elgar, Strauss and Julian Anderson. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20170918 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Dvorak and a youthful Felix Mendelssohn, plus Tchaikovsky's epic yet little-heard second piano concerto played by Pavel Kolesnikov Presented by Verity Sharp 2.00pm
Mendelssohn: String Symphony No.10 in B minor
Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op.115
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor 3.15pm
Haydn: Stabat mater H.20bis: Vidit suum dulcem natum
Mozart: A te, fra tanti affanni (Davide penitente, K.469); Musst ich auch durch tausend Drachen, K.435
Ilker Arcayurek, tenor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Aleksander Markovic, conductor 3.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2 in G, Op.44
Pavel Kolsenikov, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Aleksander Markovic, conductor. Verity Sharp with music by Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20171120 | | 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
Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
Bach (arr Beethoven for string quintet): Fugue in B flat minor BWV 867
Handel: Zadok the Priest - coronation anthem, HWV.258
Gluck: Dance of the Scythians (Iphigénie en Tauride)
Mozart: Misericordias Domini - offertory, K.222
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op.125 (Choral)
Louise Alder (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Jackson (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
Royal Conservatoire Voices
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.35pm
Coke: Piano Concerto No. 3
Simon Callaghan (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.4.00pm
Tippett: Symphony No. 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180423 | | Georgia Mann presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert the orchestra gave in Glasgow City Halls. John Wilson conducts an all-American programme including Bernstein's Serenade with soloist Ning Feng, and Roy Harris's Symphony no.3. Plus part of a new recording of music for saxophone and orchestra, with soloist Tommy Smith. 2pm
Barber The School for scandal - overture Op.5
Bernstein Serenade [after Plato's "The symposium"] for violin, string orch, harp and percussion
Copland Appalachian spring - suite vers. for orchestra [1945]
Harris Symphony no. 3
Ning Feng (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) c.3.25pm
Smith Jacobite for saxophone and orchestra
Tommy Smith (saxophone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Clark Rundell (conductor) Tchaikovsky The Tempest [Burya] - symphonic fantasia Op.18
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Glasgow. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc So At The Bbc Proms Dubai | 20170327 | | Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai. 2.00pm
The BBC Proms Dubai: Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten and Walton recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai. Gary Carpenter: Dadaville
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.08pm
Mohammed Fairouz: Pax universalis
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.18m
Britten: Piano Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.55pm
Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.40pm
Katie Derham presents the rest of the afternoon: Judith Weir's Forest and Cooke's 1st Clarinet Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Judith Weir: Forest
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 3.54pm
Arnold Cooke Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra. The BBC SO performs music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten, Walton, Weir and Cooke. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Sso | 20170403 | | Catriona Young presents a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on the music of Walton and Beethoven - including highlights from a recreation of the mammoth 4-hour concert in 1808 at which Beethoven premiered several works including his 5th Symphony and Choral Fantasia. 2pm:
Telemann: Overture a 4 in C major TWV.55:C1
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105
Mozart: Divertimento in F major K.138
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major Op.21
Laura Samuel (violin/director)
Stella McCracken (oboe)
Julian Roberts (bassoon)
Martin Storey (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra c. 3.15pm:
Walton: Partita for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins c. 3.35pm
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage - Ritual Dances
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth c. 4pm
Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra
Malin Christensson (soprano)
Charlie Drummond (soprano)
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Jackson (tenor)
David Horton (tenor)
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The BBC SSO performs music by Telemann, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Walton and Tippett. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20171023 | | 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
Beethoven: Overture Leonore No.2
Berg, rev. Jarman: Violin Concerto
Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major, Op.61
Isabelle Faust (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c.3.25pm
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Tenebrae
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nigel Short (conductor) Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Gershwin: An American in Paris
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Collins (conductor). BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Bonn plus new recordings of Rachmaninov and Bernstein. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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
Turina: La procesion da Rocio
Britten: Les Illuminations
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Duncan Ward (conductor) c.2.55pm
Brahms: Tragic Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor) c.3.10pm
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op 38
Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
David Soar (bass)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor). BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Turina, Britten and Elgar from Maida Vale Studios. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers | 20170515 | | Britten and Harvey from the BBC Singers, plus Mozart and Shostakovich from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Thailand Presented by Katie Derham 2.00 pm
Britten: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (AMDG)
BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, conductor 2.20pm
Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Harvey: I Love the Lord
Harvey: The Annunciation
Marco Blauw (trumpet)
Sound Intermedia (electronics)
BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, conductor 2.40pm
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Open Ground
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis, conductor 2.50pm
HRH King Bhumibol Adulyadej: Kinari Suite
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto in D minor, K466
Walton: Symphony No.2
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (members)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor. Featuring music by Britten, Harvey, Borisova-Ollas, Shostakovich, Mozart and Walton. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Chorus | 20170710 | | Fiona Talkington introduces performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including highlights from a concert at the Kissinger Sommer Festival last month in Bavaria, and a tribute to the BBCSO's former Chief Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, who died in May. Detlev Glanert: Weites Land
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21
Jan Lisecki (piano)
2:50pm
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.97 (Rhenish)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Recorded last month at the Kissinger Sommer Festival, Bavaria 3:30pm
Frederick Delius: Song of the High Hills
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) 4:00pm
Tribute to Jiří Bělohlávek
Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor). The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus plays Glanert, Chopin, Schumann, Delius and Martinu. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Concerts From Switzerland | 20170508 | | Starting a week of concerts recorded recently in Switzerland, Verity Sharp introduces performances by the ensemble Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, conducted by Jérémie Rhorer, including Mozart's Symphonies 39 and 41. Also, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with Jörg Widman as both soloist and conductor at the helm of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Widman returns to conduct the ensemble in his own Mass for large orchestra, closing this afternoon's programme. 2.00pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K.543
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor 2.27pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
director Jörg Widmann (clarinet) 2.56pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551 (Jupiter)
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor 3.25pm
Jörg Widman: Mass (2005), for large orchestra
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Jörg Widmann, conductor. Verity Sharp with concerts from Switzerland, with music by Mozart and Jorg Widmann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - European Concert Showcase | 20171127 | | 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:
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op 26
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, 'Italian'
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
conductor Herbert Blomstedt c.3.25pm: Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Mendelssohn with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - National Youth Orchestra Of Canada | 20170703 | | Verity Sharp presents a concert from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Plus the first of many performances this week from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a new piece from the New Music Biennial Weekend as part of Hull City of Culture. 2pm:
Bloch: Schelomo
Daniel Hass (cello)
Canadian National Youth Orchestra
Conductor Perry So 2:20pm:
Christopher Goddard: Spacious Euphony
Canadian National Youth Orchestra
Conductor Perry So 2:35pm:
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 100
Canadian National Youth Orchestra
Conductor Perry So 3.10pm:
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alondra de la Parra 3.15pm:
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alondra de la Parra 16:00
Hannah Peel: Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (world premiere)
Hannah Peel (vocals)
Tubular Brass. With the Canadian National Youth Orchestra in music by Bloch, Goddard and Prokofiev. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Radio France Philharmonic | 20171002 | | 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
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Dvorak: Symphony No.9 'From the New World'
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic
Mikko Franck (conductor) c. 3.30pm
Haydn: Symphony in F minor, Hob.I:49 'La Passione'
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K.595
Adam Laloum (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington (conductor). Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Radio France Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Rattle At Radio 3 | 20170911 | | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts featuring Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. In the 2016 BBC Proms Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic paired Boulez and Mahler to great effect. This concert, recorded last September at the opening of the new season at the Philharmonie in Berlin, has the same pairing. Boulez's 10-minute piece combines fragments of sound from a group of 15 instruments including piano, celesta, cimbalom, glockenspiel, tubular bells, and mandolin. Mahler's Seventh Symphony demands great virtuosity from a large orchestra - the Berlin Philharmonic makes a persuasive case for this mighty work. Followed by a peformance of Bartok's last orchestral work which also showcases the virtuosity and sound colours of the orchestra. Boulez: Eclat
Mahler: Symphony No.7
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic
conductor Simon Rattle. Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra | 20170320 | | Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. The ensemble serves the 'Twin Cities' of Minneapolis-St Paul and is one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. Today's selection includes music by CPE Bach and two masterpieces by Beethoven - his Fourth Piano Concerto and the 'Eroica' Symphony. 2pm: CPE Bach: Symphony No 4 in C, Wq.180
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
conductor Christian Zacharias 2.10pm:
Thierry Escaich: Baroque Song
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
conductor Christian Zacharias 2.25pm:
CPE Bach: Symphony in F, Wq. 181
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
conductor Christian Zacharias 2.45pm:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (piano/director) 3.15pm:
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 3.25pm:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs music by CPE Bach, Escaich, Beethoven and Ives. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180205 | | 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
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
Mozart: Un moto di gioia - aria K579; Vado, ma dove? - aria K583; Voi avete un cor fedele - aria K217
Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major
Rowan Pierce (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.3.35pm
Jacob: Concerto for violin and string orchestra
Clare Howick (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (conductor) c.3.55pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20180305 | | 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
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) - overture, Op 40
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat minor
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 3.20pm
Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto in D minor
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rebecca Miller (conductor) 3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 (Eroica)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 4.30pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: Summer Music; Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) 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'. Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - The Bbc Symphony Orchestra | 20180129 | | Tom McKinney presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert the orchestra gave at the Barbican with music by Britten, Tchaikovsky and Alasdair Nicolson. The BBC Symphony Orchestra accompany Tenebrae in a new recording of choral music by Schoenberg and his teacher Zemlinsky. Plus a new recording of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with Yevgeny Sudbin. 2pm
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op 20
Alasdair Nicolson: Shadows on the Wall - 5 hauntings for voice and orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 13 (Winter daydreams)
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor) c.3.30pm
Zemlinsky: Psalm 23
Tenebrae
BBCSO
Nigel Short (conductor) Judith Weir: Forest
BBCSO
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) c.3.55pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BBCSO
Sakari Oramo (conductor) c. 4.45pm
Tchaikovsky Voyevoda
BBCSO
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - The Best Of 2017 - Bbc Symphony Chorus | 20171225 | | 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
Cecilia McDowall: O Oriens
Howard Skempton: Adam lay ybounden
Arr Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: There is no rose
Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn
Will Todd: Christus est stella
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
William Mathias: A babe is born
Becky McGlade: In the bleak mid-winter
Arr Bob Chilcott: In dulci jubilo
Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
Kerry Andrew: Out of the Orient Crystal Skies
Fredrick Sixten : Mary's Lullaby (Stille Nacht)
Bernard Hughes: Christmas bells
Richard Elfyn Jones: Good King Wenceslas BBC Symphony Chorus
Richard Pearce (organ)
Neil Ferris (conductor). The BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Neil Ferris, in carols from Maida Vale Studios. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday - The Ulster Orchestra | 20180319 | | 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
Grieg - Suite: Peer Gynt
Selections from Suite No. 1, Op.46, and Suite No. 2, Op.55.
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op 43
Nielsen - Symphony No 5 Op 50
Simon Trpčeski (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor) 3.35pm
Carl Nielsen - En Saga Drøm Op 39
Ulster Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) 3.45pm
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Pacho Flores (trumpet)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 4pm
Debussy - Printemps
Ulster Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann (conductor) 4.15pm
Hindemith - Symphony "Mathis der Maler"
Ulster Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann (conductor). 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 | 20170313 | | Katie Derham showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes a romantic concerto by Rachmaninov, and music as part of Afternoon on 3's British music season by Britten, Holst, Walton and Adès. 2pm
Britten: Russian Funeral
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor) 2.05pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 2.50pm
Holst: Egdon Heath Op.47
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor) 3.05pm
Walton: Suite Henry V
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor) 3.30pm
Thomas Adès: Three Studies
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor) 3.45pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
Ulster Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor). The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Britten, Rachmaninov, Holst, Walton, Ades and Sibelius 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. 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
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op.95
Moeran: In the Mountain Country
Ireland: Piano Concerto in E Flat
Ireland: The Forgotten Rite
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (1880)
Leon McCawley (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor) 3.20pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat, Op.75
Barry Douglas (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) 3.50pm
James MacMillan: Britannia
Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor
Prokofiev, arr. C Palmer: War and Peace Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor). Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday: Bbc Philharmonic | 20181126 | | Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Holst recorded by the BBC Philharmonic from MediaCityUK earlier this year. A recently discovered work by Stravinsky, found in 2014 by a librarian at St. Petersburg Conservatory, is heard alongside one of the earliest orchestral works by Holst's and an overture by Muller-Hermann – based on the play Brand by Henrik Ibsen. 2.00pm
Stravinsky
Funeral Song
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
Carolin Widmann, violin
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor Muller-Hermann
Brand - Symphonic Fantasy after Ibsen
BBC Philharmonic
Ilan Volkov, conductor c. 3.30pm
Arriaga
Overture in D
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor Stravinsky
Orpheus
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds, conductor c. 4.30pm
Holst
Cotswolds Symphony
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor Presented by Tom McKinney. Stravinsky, Mendelssohn and Holst from the BBC Philharmonic recorded in MediaCityUK. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Monday: Handel's Samson | 20180910 | | 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
Matthew Newlin, Samson, tenor
Klara Ek, Dalila, soprano
Lawrence Zazzo, Micah, countertenor
Luigi di Donato, Manoa, bass
Luigi di Donato, Harapha, bass
Namur Chamber Choir
Millenium Orchestra
Leonardo García Alarcón, conductor c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32
Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Arming, conductor
Recorded in Philharmonic Hall, Liège Tom Redmond presents Handel's Samson, recorded at Les Wallonies Festival in Namur, Belgium Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Mozart And Strauss | 20190710 | | Continuing with our week of concerts by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, today we feature the ensemble under the baton of Susanna Mälkki performing two Mozart pieces, first the overture to his opera Don Giovanni, followed by his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, with the South Korean virtuosa Yeol Eum Son as soloist. The afternoon continues with Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss' tone poem, more like a study for 23 strings, played by the Swiss ensemble, this time under conductor Julien Leroy.
Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Mozart: Don Giovanni, overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 / 26.22' + applause
Yeol Eum Son, piano
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Susanna Mälkki, conductor 2.35pm
R. Strauss – Metamorphosen, for strings
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Julien Leroy, conductor 3.10pm
New Music Biennial
Sarah Tandy: The Dream Without a Name
Sarah Tandy Sextet Susanna M\u00e4lkki conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Continuing with our week of concerts by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, today we feature the ensemble under the baton of Susanna Mälkki performing two Mozart pieces, first the overture to his opera Don Giovanni, followed by his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, with the South Korean virtuosa Yeol Eum Son as soloist. The afternoon continues with Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss' tone poem, more like a study for 23 strings, played by the Swiss ensemble, this time under conductor Julien Leroy.
Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore. |
| Mozart, Brahms And Mendelssohn With The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20190115 | | Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concerts from Glasgow and Essen, with music by Ravel, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Britten. Plus cellist Bruno Delepelaire joins the orchestra for a performance of Matthias Pintscher's concerto "Un Despertar" and Nikolak Znaider is the soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto. 2.00pm
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Pintscher – Un Despertar
Mozart - Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543
Bruno Delepelaire (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
recorded at Glasgow City Halls c.3.30pm
Britten – 4 Sea Interludes [Peter Grimes]
Brahms – Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn – Symphony No.3
Trad. arr. Cree – Eightsome Reels
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
recorded at the Philharmonie, Essen Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Glasgow and Essen. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Mozart, Brahms, Saint-saens, Musgrave | 20181003 | | Mozart's joyful Exsultate, jubilate with Radio 3 New Generation Artist the soprano Fatma Said plus the first symphony of Brahms, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, live from the BBC Philharmonic studio with presenter Tom McKinney. The orchestra also wax lyrical with pianist Louis Lortie in Saint-Saens' Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, and in Thea Musgrave's Song of the Enchanter. 2pm
Mozart: Overture, Don Giovanni; Exsultate, jubilate
Brahms: Symphony No 1
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Fatma Said (soprano)
LIVE from BBC Philharmonic Studio Salford c.3pm
Saint-Saëns Rhapsodie d'Auvergne
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano) c.3.15pm
Thea Musgrave Song of the Enchanter
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor) Music by Mozart and Brahms live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio presented by Tom McKinney Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto | 20210527 | | Christophe Rousset conducts Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto, from the Royal Opera House's 2017 production. Mozart was 14 when he wrote this early opera seria masterpiece telling the tragic story of the king of Ponto, a warrior whose sons Farnace and Sifare are in love with his fiancée Aspasia, which leaves them torn between loyalty to him or betrayal with the enemy. Christophe Rousset conducts the ROH Orchestra and chorus, with a cast lead by Michael Spyres in the title role, Albina Shagimuratova as Aspasia, Bejun Mehta as Farnace and Salome Jicia as Sifare. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate - Michael Spyres (tenor)
Aspasia - Albina Shagimuratova (soprano)
Sifare - Salome Jicia (soprano)
Farnace - Bejun Mehta (treble)
Ismene - Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Marzio - Rupert Charlesworth (tenor)
Abate - Jennifer Davis (soprano)
Royal Opera House Chorus
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Christophe Rousset (conductor) Mozart's opera Mitridate, re di Ponto, from the Royal Opera House Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Music By Women Composers Plus Interviews With Marin Alsop And Alice Farnham | 20190308 | | We celebrate International Women's Day with a feast of music by women composers including Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscape.
As part of Radio 3's ‘Women in front' we'll hear interviews with conductor Marin Alsop with her mentee Lina Gonzalez-Granados; and with live studio guest the conductor Alice Farnham who will be sharing with us some of her favourite pieces by female composers and a track from the BBC Archive that hasn't been heard since its first broadcast. The Our Classical Century Piece is Elizabeth Maconchy's Proud ThamesPresented by Kate Molleson Dani Howard: Argentum
Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante
Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor) 3.00
Elizabeth Maconchy: Proud Thames
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor) 3.05pm
Alison Willis: Non omnis moriar
Joanna Marsh: Weighing the Earth
Walid Zaido (Syrian drums/percussion)
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor) 3.15pm
Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscape
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor) International Women's Day. Music by women composers plus studio guest Alice Farnham. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Music For Good Friday | 20180330 | | Georgia Mann presents a concert from Barcelona with Jordi Savall conducting his new reconstruction of J S Bach's lost St Mark Passion. J S Bach: St Mark Passion, BWV 247
David Szigetvári (tenor - Evangelist)
Konstantin Wolff (bass - Jesus)Emőke Baráth (soprano)
Marta Mathéu (soprano)
Raffaele Pé (countertenor)
Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor)
Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations
Conductor Jordi Savall. Georgia Mann presents Jordi Savall's new reconstruction of JS Bach's lost St Mark Passion. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Music From Wales | 20200408 | | Tom McKinney continues his profile of BBCNOW with a recording of a concert from Bangor of music by Mozart and Haydn, directed by violinist Rachel Podger. Haydn: Symphony no. 8 in G major H.1.8 (Le Soir)
Mozart: Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207 for violin and orchestra
Mozart: Adagio in E major K.261 for violin and orchestra
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello & orchestra
Mozart: Concerto no. 5 in A major K.219 for violin and orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rachel Podger (Musical Directing)
Alice Neary (Cello)
Jaroslaw Augustyniak (Bassoon)
Jose Luis Vegara (Oboe) Concerts and studio recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphiharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg | 20190218 | | This week features a series of concerts recorded live at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, one of the most exciting halls in Europe today and home of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. The afternoon opens with Pietari Inkinen conducting the ensemble in Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 4, Op. 36/3, 'Violin Concerto' with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, followed by Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. The afternoon continues with the orchestra's principal conductor, Thomas Hengelbrock, welcoming soloist Piotr Anderszewski in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491. This concert ends with Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 4, Op. 36/3 'Violin Concerto'
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, conductor 3.05pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor Piotr Anderszewski, piano
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor Music by Mozart, Mahler, Hindemith and Sibelius with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (1/3) | 20210104 | | Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings of pieces by Messiaen, Shostakovich and Haydn from the Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine Cedric Tiberghien, piano
Nathalie Forget, ondes martenot
Ulrike Payer, celesta
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher, conductor Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 in B flat minor, Op.113 “Babi Yar”
Mikhail Petrenko, bass
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher, conductor Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C, Hob.VIIb:1
Truls Mork, cello
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbaniak, conductor Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (2/3) | 20210105 | | Tom McKinnney introduces recent concert recordings of pieces by Haydn, Alfred Schnittke, Tchaikovsky and Wagner from Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Haydn: Symphony No.80 in D minor, Hob.1:80
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No.1
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op.58 Stefan Wagner and Rodrigo Reichel, violins
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod [Tristan and Isolde] Nina Stemme, soprano
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Marek Janowski, conductor Tom McKinney with recent concert recordings by Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (3/3) | 20210106 | | Tom McKinney introduces a recent concert from the Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, including Webern's Im Sommerwind, Berg's Violin Concerto and Brahms's Symphony No 3. Webern: Im Sommerwind
Berg: Violin Concerto
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor Tom McKinney with recent concert recordings by Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg | 20190219 | | The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under conductor Krzysztof Urbanski at Hamburg's magnificent Elbphilharmonie hall performing Wojcieh Kilar's symphonic poem for strings Orawa, then Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann, finishing with Dvorak's Symphony No. 7. Then, Urbanski returns to the rostrum for another concert with the North German ensemble, this time to perform a couple of suites taking us to the stratosphere and beyond: first, it's Gustav Holst's The Planets, which is followed by Star Wars, taken from the John Williams' renowned soundtrack.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Wojciech Kilar: Orawa
Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor 3.20pm
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
John Williams: Star Wars, suite Kilar, Bartok, Dvorak, Holst and John Williams from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg | 20190220 | | Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, in a concert featuring Carl Nielsen's overture Helios, also Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the virtuoso Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos as soloist, finishing with Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E flat.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Nielsen: Helios, Op. 17, overture
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82 Leonidas Kavakos, violin
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie in Nielsen, Shostakovich, Sibelius Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg | 20190222 | | Closing a week of concerts from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica', with its Chief Conductor, Thomas Hengelbrock at the helm. It's followed by Our Classical Century piece of the week: Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. And back in Hamburg again, the American conductor Alan Gilbert picks up the baton for Mahler's Symphony No. 3, with the Women of the Bavarian Radio Chorus accompanying the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' in E flat major, Op. 55 NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor 2.50pm / Our Classical Century
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra 3.10pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Women of the Bavarian Radio Chorus
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor Mahler and Beethoven performed by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | 20180327 | | Fiona Talkington presents the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras performing at the 2017 Robeco SummerNights in Amsterdam. Rebel: Le Chaos (from 'Les Elémens')
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67
Haydn: The Representation of Chaos (from The Creation)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1947 version)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Markus Stenz 3.20pm
Weill: Symphony No 2
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Lahav Shani 3.50pm
Ravel: Bolero
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor 4.05pm
Tchaikovsky: 'Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Otto Tausk. Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play music by Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | 20180328 | | Georgia Mann presents the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Copland, Mozart, Rossini and Bizet from the 2017 Robeco SummerNights festival in Amsterdam. Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Joey Roukens: Chase
Mozart: Overture; Parto, parto (from La Clemenza di Tito, K621)
Rossini: Overture; Una voce poco fa (from The Barber of Seville)
Shostakovich: Romance, from The Gadfly
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Falla: Seguidillas; Farruca; Jota (from The Three-Cornered Hat - Suite No 2)
Bizet: Près des remparts de Séville; Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen)
Arturo Márquez: Danzón 2
Karin Strobos (mezzo-soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Antony Hermus. Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play music by Copland, Mozart, Rossini and Bizet. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| New Year Celebrations From Saffron Hall | 20200107 | | Georgia Mann presents a concert given by the BBC Concert Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey at Saffron Hall on Saturday. Martin James Bartlett is the soloist in Rachmaninov's perennial favourite Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. And there's a sprinkling of seasonal Strauss favourites to welcome the new year. Followed by a brand new recording of a Savoy Theatre curtain-raiser. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Petroc Trelawny introduces a piece of music he loves. J Strauss II: Overture Die Fledermaus
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1st mvt)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Bacewicz: Overture for Orchestra
Mozart: Symphony No.25 (1st movt)
J Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile; Musikalischer Scherzo
Eduard Strauss: Alpine Rose (Alpenrose) Polka
J Strauss II: Champagne Polka
J Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube Martin James Bartlett (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor 3.40pm
Savoy curtain raisers:
Music Ernest Ford, words Harry Greenbank: Mr Jericho Michael de Vere, Earl of Margate - Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Horace Alexander de Vere, Viscount Ramsgate, an omnibus driver - Ed Lyon (tenor)
Mr Jericho, a jam manufacturer - Ben McAteer (baritone)
Lady Bushey - Fiona Kimm (contralto)
Winifred, her daughter - Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Georgia Mann presents a seasonal concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| New Year New Music | 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
Mother of Man
Chain to the Rhythm
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor 2.50pm
Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude
Howard Skempton: Largo Kaija Saariaho: Harp Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about conducting John Adams. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| New Year New Music | 20180105 | | With Jonathan Swain.
This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year, New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he looks at Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, 'Los Angeles', commissioned for Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic OrchestraArvo Pärt: Symphony No 4, 'Los Angeles'
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor 2.35pm
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about Arvo Part. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| New Year New Music: Thursday Opera Matinee | 20180104 | | 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
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductorfollowed 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
Kari Heiskanen, speaker
Tiina-Maija Koskela, soprano
Tuija Knihtilä, mezzo-soprano
Jussi Jyllys, tenor
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
Ville Matvejeff, conductor. The world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| New Year, New 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
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
Finnish National Opera Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor 2.20pm
Schubert: Wanderers Nachtlied, D768
Harvey: Nachtlied. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about electronic music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Nordic Sounds - Opera Matinee | 20210114 | | Penny Gore continues this week of Nordic performances with a real treat: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' recording live at Swedish Royal Opera in 1960. It stars the celebrated Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling as Manrico and the soprano Hjördis Schymberg as Leonora, in a tragic story of mistaken identity, witchcraft and vengeance. Plus recent concert performances from Copenhagen: music from Sweden by Franz Berwald and from Denmark by Niels Gade. 2.00pm
Verdi: Il Trovatore, opera in 4 Acts Manrico: Jussi Björling, tenor,
Leonora: Hjördis Schymberg, soprano
Azucena: Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano
Il conte di Luna: Hugo Hasslo, baritone
Ferrando: Erik Saedén, bass
Ines: Ingeborg Kjellgren, soprano
Ruiz: Olle Sivall, tenor
Un vecchio zingaro: Bertil Alstergård, bass
Un messo: Sture Ingebretzen, tenor
Swedish Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Herbert Sandberg, conductor 3.00pm
Franz Berwald: Overture to 'Estrella de Soria'
Niels Gade: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 5 ('On Sjølund's Beautiful Plains')
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor Verdi's Il Trovatore from the Swedish Royal Opera archives starring tenor Jussi Bjorling. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| O Radiant Dawn | 20191203 | | BBC Singers' concert for Advent, featuring James MacMillan's seraphic motet O radiant dawn. Plus Schumann from the BBC Philharmonic and their new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber. Sarah MacDonald: O come, O come Emmanuel
Roderick Williams: O Adonai
Praetorius: Magnificat quinti toni; Joseph, lieber Joseph mein; In dulci iubilo
James Long: Vigilate
John Joubert: There is no rose
James MacMillan: O radiant dawn
Graham Ross: I sing of a maiden
Matthew Whittall: Christmas Hath a Darkness: Four Carols for Advent
Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden
Jonathan Wikeley: Balulalow
Francis Jackson: I know a flower
Matthew Martin: Rose Magnificat
Alan Bullard: Glory to the Christ Child
BBC Singers
Conductor Graham Ross
Presented by Ian Skelly 3.30pm
Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in concert Janáček, arr. David Matthews: On an Overgrown Path (Book 1)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor John Storgards 4pm
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Clemens Schuldt 4.20pm
Schumann: Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Offenbach's La Belle Hele8ne | 20200528 | | Offenbach's La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne from the Op\u00e9ra de Lausanne Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Opera matinee: Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène.
Penny Gore introduces a Lausanne Opera performance of one of the most enduring operettas in the repertoire, Offenbach's brilliant parody of the story of Helen's elopement with Paris, which set off the Trojan War.
Offenbach's masterpiece from the French Second Empire is followed by Honegger's powerful Symphonie Liturgique, written in the aftermath of the Second World War. Offenbach: La Belle Hélène, opéra bouffe in three acts
Julien Dran, tenor, Pâris, son of King Priam of Troy
Michel Fau, tenor buffo, Ménélas, King of Sparta
Christophe Lacassagne, baritone, Agamemnon, King of Kings
Jean-Claude Saragosse, baritone, Calchas, grand soothsayer to Jupiter
Jean-Francis Monvoisin, tenor, Achille, King of Phtiotis
Pier-Yves Têtu, tenor, Ajax I, King of Salamis
Hoël Troadec, tenor, Ajax II, King of the Locrians
Julie Robard-Gendre, soprano, Hélène (Helen of Troy), Queen of Sparta
Paul Figuier, countertenor, Oreste, son of Agamemnon
Marie Daher, soprano, Bacchis, Helen's maid
Béatrice Nani, mezzo-soprano, Loena
Laurène Paternò, soprano, Parthoenis
Jean-Raphaël Lavandier, [spoken role], Philocome
Richard Lahady, [spoken role], Euthyclès
Lausanne Opera Chorus
Lausanne Sinfonietta
Pierre Dumoussaud, conductor Followed at approx. 4pm by more recent performances from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, this week's featured orchestra. Henri Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mario Venzago, conductor Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (Liturgique)
Bach orch. Stokowski: Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott from Cantata no. 80 BWV.80
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mario Venzago, conductor |
| Opera Matine: Porin, By Vatroslav Lisinski | 20200123 | | Today's Opera Matinee: The historical opera Porin by Croatia's first opera composer, Vatroslav Lisinski. It was performed last year in the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb. Ljubomir Puškarić, baritone - Kocelin, the leader of the Frankish army and the governor in Croatia
Kristina Kolar, soprano - Irmengarda, his sister
Irena Parlov, mezzo-soprano - Klotilda, her maid
Siniša Galović, tenor, Klodvik - Kocelin's notary
Stjepan Franetović, tenor - Porin, Croatian nobleman
Luciano Batinić, bass, Sveslav - a former Croatian soldier
Evelin Novak, soprano - Zorka, his protégée
Croatian Radio-Television Chorus - Frankish noblemen / Croatian men and women
Nina Cossetto, Chorus director
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra
Pavle Dešpalj, conductor Presented by Hannah French Hannah French presents this week's Opera Matinee: Porin, by Vatroslav Lisinski. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee | 20200319 | | A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams, plus the BBC Philharmonic in Russian and Finnish music Hahn's compact first opera tells of the love between a young French naval officer and a beautiful Tahitian woman - a love, though, that can only last for as long as he is stationed on the island To follow, there's an evocative early symphony from Jean Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, which is joined by Canadian violinist James Ehnes for the spiky first concerto by Prokofiev Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Hahn
L'île du rêve (The Island of Dreams), a Polynesian idyll in three acts
Hélène Guilmette, soprano - Mahénu
Ludivine Gombert, soprano - Téria, a woman from Tahiti / Faïmana, a noblewoman
Anaïk Morel, mezzo-soprano - Oréna, a Tahitian princess
Cyrille Dubois, tenor - Pierre Loti, in fact Georges de Kerven, an officer in the French navy
Le Concert Spirituel Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra
Hervé Niquet, conductor 3.05pm
Arensky
Suite No 3 ‘Variations' Op.33
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor 3.35pm
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.1
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor 4.00pm
Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams, plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra, live in Rautavaara, Schumann and Sibelius. Hahn's compact first opera tells of the love between a young French naval officer and a beautiful Tahitian woman - a love, though, that can only last for as long as he is stationed on the island. Then we head over to the BBC's Maida Vale studios for two masterpieces of Finnish orchestral music: Sibelius showing his mastery of the craft in his "confession of the soul", Einojuhani Rautavaara evoking the austere grandeur of the Arctic Circle using birdsong actually recorded on location. 3.00pm
Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus
Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor
Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D
Can Çakmur, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, Conductor |
| Opera Matinee | 20210401 | | Penny Gore presents Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011. The Tsar has been looking for a bride, and assembled some 2000 girls for inspection. The one he's taken with is Marfa, but she is already promised in marriage to her childhood sweetheart Ivan. The situation is already complicated enough, but Marfa is also loved by another powerful man, Grigory, who's one of the Tsar's secret police. It's a love-triangle which has all the makings of catastrophe. Marfa Sobakina.. Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)
Grigory Gryaznoy.. Johan Reuter (baritone)
Lyubasha.. Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov.. Dmitry Popov (tenor)
Elisa Bomelius.. Vasily Gorshkov (bass)
Vasily Sobakin.. Paata Burchuladze (bass)
Dunyasha Saburova.. Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo-soprano)
Domna Saburova.. Elizabeth Woollett (soprano)
Malyuta-Skuratov.. Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Petrovna.. Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano) Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor.. Sir Mark Elder Followed by Mozart: Haffner Symphony No. 35 in D major K385
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Sir Mark Elder conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, with Johan Reuter as Grigory. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - A Week In Berlin | 20181011 | | 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
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas
Dido….Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano
Belinda….Robin Johannsen, soprano
Aeneas....Matthias Winckhler, baritone
Sorceress….Katharina Magiera, contralto
Bavarian Radio Choir
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Alexander Liebrich, conductor 3.00pm
Strauss
Metamorphosen
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Alexander Liebrich, conductor 3.25pm
Weinberg
Violin Concerto
Sibelius
Lemminkainen Suite
Gidon Kremer, violin
German Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor Synopsis - Dido & Aeneas Act 1
Dido's court The opera opens with Dido in her court with her attendants. Belinda is trying to cheer up Dido, but Dido is full of sorrow, saying 'Peace and I are strangers grown'. Belinda believes the source of this grief to be the Trojan Aeneas, and suggests that Carthage's troubles could be resolved by a marriage between the two. Dido and Belinda talk for a time: Dido fears that her love will make her a weak monarch, but Belinda and the Second Woman reassure her that "The hero loves as well." Aeneas enters the court, and is at first received coldly by Dido, but she eventually accepts his proposal of marriage. Act 2
Scene 1: The cave of the Sorceress The Sorceress/Sorcerer is plotting the destruction of Carthage and its queen, and summons companions to help with evil plans. The plan is to send her "trusted elf" disguised as Mercury, someone to whom Aeneas will surely listen, to tempt him to leave Dido and sail to Italy. This would leave Dido heartbroken, and she would surely die. The chorus join in with terrible laughter, and the Enchantresses decide to conjure up a storm to make Dido and her train leave the grove and return to the palace. When the spell is prepared, the witches vanish in a thunderclap. Scene 2: A grove during the middle of a hunt The Sorceress' messenger, in form of Mercury, attempts to convince Aeneas to leave Carthage.
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Dido and Aeneas are accompanied by their train. They stop at the grove to take in its beauty. A lot of action is going on, with attendants carrying goods from the hunt and a picnic possibly taking place, and Dido and Aeneas are together within the activity. This is all stopped when Dido hears distant thunder, prompting Belinda to tell the servants to prepare for a return to shelter as soon as possible. As every other character leaves the stage, Aeneas is stopped by the Sorceress's elf, who is disguised as Mercury. This pretend Mercury brings the command of Jove that Aeneas is to wait no longer in beginning his task of creating a new Troy on Latin soil. Aeneas consents to the wishes of what he believes are the gods, but is heart-broken that he will have to leave Dido. He then goes off-stage to prepare for his departure from Carthage. Act 3
Scene 1: The harbour at Carthage Preparations are being made for the departure of the Trojan fleet. The sailors sing a song, which is followed shortly by the Sorceress and her companions' sudden appearance. The group is pleased at how well their plan has worked, and the Sorceress sings a solo describing her further plans for the destruction of Aeneas "on the ocean". All the characters begin to clear the stage after a dance in three sections, and then disperse. Scene 2: The palace Dido and Belinda enter, shocked at Aeneas' disappearance. Dido is distraught and Belinda comforts her. Suddenly Aeneas returns, but Dido is full of fear before Aeneas speaks, and his words only serve to confirm her suspicions. She derides his reasons for leaving, and even when Aeneas says he will defy the gods and not leave Carthage, Dido rejects him for having once thought of leaving her. After Dido forces Aeneas to leave, she states that "Death must come when he is gone." The opera and Dido's life both slowly come to a conclusion, as the Queen of Carthage sings her last aria, "When I am laid in Earth", also known as "Dido's Lament." The chorus and orchestra then conclude the opera once Dido is dead by ordering the "cupids to scatter roses on her tomb, soft and gentle as her heart. Keep here your watch, and never, never part." A performance of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, music by Strauss, Weinberg and Sibelius Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - Dvorak's Rusalka | 20200618 | | A production of Dvorak's fairy-tale masterpiece. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Dvorak's “fairy-tale” opera ‘Rusalka' - the one which features the celebrated aria "Song to the Moon" - recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2012. This was the Royal Opera's first fully staged production of Dvořak's opera in a radical interpretation by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito. It starred the Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund in the title role with conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin making his Royal Opera debut. Rusalka....Camilla Nylund (Soprano)
Vodnik, Spirit Of The Lake....Alan Held (Baritone)
Prince....Brian Hymel (Tenor)
Foreign Princess....Petra Lang (Mezzo-Soprano)
Jezibaba....Agnes Zwierko (Mezzo-Soprano) Voice Of Huntsman....Daniel Grice (Bass Baritone)
Gamekeeper....Gyula Orendt (Baritone)
Kitchen Boy....Ilse Eerens (Soprano)
Wood Nymph....Anna Devin (Soprano)
Wood Nymph....Madeleine Pierard (Soprano)
Wood Nymph....Justina Gringyte (Mezzo-Soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor....Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| Opera Matinee - Gounod's Faust | 20200924 | | Hannah French introduces a recording made in 2014 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Gounod's Faust, once one of the most famous and most performed operas. Based on Goethe's dramatic poem, it's a tale of romance, temptation and tragedy, and the clash between religion and satanic powers. Faust, sung by the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja, has become bored with life and its limitations, and makes a pact with the Devil, represented by Méphistophélès, baritone Bryn Terfel: the Devil promises that he will satisfy Faust's hedonistic requests in exchange for his soul. Gounod's Faust contains many musical highlights including the Soldiers' Chorus, and Marguerite's stunning Jewel Song - sung tonight by soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House are conducted by Maurizio Benini. 2.00pm
Gounod - Faust, in five acts
Faust.... Joseph Calleja (Tenor)
Méphistophélès.... Bryn Terfel (Baritone)
Marguerite.... Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano)
Valentin.... Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)
Wagner.... Jihoon Kim (Bass Baritone)
Siébel.... Renata Pokupic (Mezzo-soprano)
Martha Schwerlein.... Diana Montague (Mezzo-soprano) Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Maurizio Benini (Conductor) With tenor Joseph Calleja in the title role, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2014. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - Halka | 20201105 | | A chance to hear one of the great Polish national operas, Halka, by 19th-century composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, recorded at the Theater an der Wien in Austria, last year. Halka is a deeply lyrical work, packed with good tunes and full of Polish character telling the story of a mountain-girl Halka, spurned by her lover Janusz, and of the tragic consequences that follow. The libretto is by the radical Warsaw poet Wlodzimierz Wolski and the opera is sung in Polish. It's introduced by Tom McKinney. With:
Corinne Winters (sop) Halka - a mountain girl
Tomasz Konieczny (bar) Janusz - a squire
Piotr Beczala (ten) Jontek - a young man of the mountains
Alexey Tikhoirov (bass) Stolnik - master of the pantry
Lukas Jakobski (bass) Dziemba - major-domo Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna conducted by Lukasz Borowicz A co-production by Theatre an der Wien and Teatr Wielki Warsaw
Directed by Mariusz Trelinski
Recorded in December 2019 Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Stanislaw Moniuszko's opera Halka Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - La Ville Morte | 20210304 | | Tom McKinney introduces a recording of Nadia Boulanger's most significant work, her collaboration with her teacher Raoul Pugno, the opera La Ville Morte (The Dead City) as orchestrated by Mauro Bonifacio and starring Katarina Karneus. This is a premiere performance from Göteborg of the completed opera. La Ville Morte
Based on D'Annunzio's 'La Città morta' Katarina Karnéus, (mezzo-soprano) Hebé
Matilda Paulsson, (mezzo-soprano) Anne
Markus Pettersson, (tenor) Léonard
Anton Ljungqvist, (bass-baritone) Alexandre
Natallia Salavei, (mezzo-soprano) Amman
Göteborg Opera Youth Chorus
Men of the Göteborg Opera Chorus
Göteborg Opera Orchestra conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing The Goteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus perform Boulanger and Pugno's La Ville Morte. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro | 20190502 | | Mozart's perennially popular opera recounts a single "day of madness" in which the schemes of the Count Almaviva to exploit those around him backfire & he repents his devious ways. The servant couple Susanna and Figaro conspire with the forsaken Countess to outwit her husband and teach him a lesson in fidelity until, as if my magic, the opera ends in universal celebration!
Presented by Penny Gore2.00pm
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
The Count Almaviva ….. Simone Alberghini (baritone)
The Countess Almaviva....Serena Farnocchia (soprano)
Figaro....Paolo Bordogna (bass)
Susanna....Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
Cherubino....Paola Gardina (mezzo-soprano)
Marcellina....Manuela Custer (soprano)
Bartolo....Fabrizio Beggi (bass)
Basilio....Saverio Fiore (tenor)
Don Curzio....Joshua Sanders (tenor)
Antonio ….. Matteo Peirone (bass)
Barbarina ….. Mariasole Mainini (soprano)
First Girl....Manuela Giacomini (soprano)
Second Girl ….. Claudia De Pian (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro Regio Chorus
Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin
Speranza Scappucci, conductor
Recorded in July 2018 at the Teatro Regio, Turin Mozart's much-loved comic opera in a performance from the Teatro Regio, Turin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - Offenbach's Tales Of Hoffmann | 20200702 | | A performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2019. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras A performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann recorded in Vienna last year to celebrate the composer's 200th anniversary. The opera is based on an 1851 play depicting the spiritual and moral decline of the poet ETA Hoffmann, through the stories of three successive loves – Olympia, Giulietta, and Antonia. Completed in the final few months of his life it was Offenbach's last attempt at recognition for serious opera rather than the frivolous works for which he was best known. He died four months before the premiere. Presented by Tom McKinney. Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Hoffmann.... Dmitry Korchak, tenor
Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta.... Olga Peretyatko, soprano
The Muse / Nicklausse.... Gaëlle Arquez, mezzo-soprano
Councillor Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto.... Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio.... Michael Laurenz, tenor
Voice of Antonia's mother.... Zoryana Kushpler, mezzo-soprano
Spalanzani, an inventor.... Igor Onishchenko, tenor
Nathanaël, a student.... Lukhanyo Moyake, tenor
Crespel, Antonia's father.... Dan Paul Dumitrescu, bass
Luther.... Alexandru Moisiuc, bass
Hermann, a student.... Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone
Peter Schlémil, in love with Giulietta.... Clemens Unterreiner, baritone
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Frédéric Chaslin, conductor |
| Opera Matinee - Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin | 20200625 | | Robin Ticciati conducts Tchaikovsky's lyric tragedy at the Royal Opera House in London. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras It's the tragic story of a young girl who falls passionately in love and a man whose youthful arrogance dooms them both to a life of misery. Simon Keenlyside and Krassimira Stoyanova bring both experience and dynamic energy to the protagonists in Tchaikovsky's lyric tragedy, recorded at the Royal Opera House in London in February 2013. Tatyana and Onegin meet on her family's country estate in Russia. She falls instantly in love, and pours out her feelings in a letter. But Onegin rejects her, saying he's not cut out for married life. To make his point, he flirts with her sister, Olga, who's engaged to his best friend, Lensky. The two men fight a duel, Lensky is killed, and Onegin flees. Years later, he turns up to a ball in St Petersburg and sees Tatyana again, now a married woman. He realises, too late, that he loves her after all. Robin Ticciati conducts the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Presented by Hannah French. 2pm
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Tatyana.... Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano
Eugene Onegin.... Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Madame Larina.... Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Filipyevna.... Kathleen Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano
Olga.... Elena Maximova, mezzo-soprano
A Peasant Singer.... Elliot Goldie, tenor
Lensky.... Pavol Breslik, tenor
Monsieur Triquet.... Christoph Montagne, tenor
A Captain.... Michel De Souza, baritone
Zaretsky.... Jihoon Kim, bass
Prince Gremin.... Peter Rose, bass
Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
Robin Ticciati, conductor |
| Opera Matinee - The Devil On Earth | 20200514 | | Franz von Supp\u00e9's operetta Der Teufel auf Erden in a production from Theater Chemnitz. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Franz von Suppé (with the rather spectacular full name of Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli) composed more than 200 stage works and was the leading light of nineteenth-century Austrian operetta, enjoying a success that rivaled that of Frenchman Jacques Offenbach. This production of Der Teufel auf Erden - The Devil on Earth (or possibly The Devil In All Of Us) - was recorded last July to mark the bicentenary of Suppé's birth. The operetta had an unsuccessful run of twenty performances in 1878 at Carltheater Wien, where Suppé was conductor, and was not performed again until 1984 as a radio broadcast.
The plot (to a libretto by Karl Juin and Julius Hopp) depicts a revolt in Hell: in Scene One the inhabitants demand Freedom of the Press, abolition of serfdom and a democratically elected parliament. Satan and Mephistopheles want to crush this revolt but their henchmen Lucifer, Samuel and Beelzebub are on holiday on earth. So they go to earth to find them and bring them back. However in this production from Chemnitz opera, the director asked the artist performing the role of the devil, Alexander Kuchinka, to rewrite the libretto. He's changed the plot significantly and in this version the first scene is set in Hell, as in the original, Scene Two in a 17th century nunnery, Scene Three in a 19th century military cadet school and Scene Four in a 21st Century dance school.
Later in the afternoon we return to this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, for a concert given at Maida Vale Studios in 2019, including the dramatic Overture No.1 by Louise Farrenc and Grieg's much-loved Piano Concerto in A minor with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist soloist Elizabeth Brauss, conducted by Francois Leleux.
Presented by Georgia Mann. 2pm
Franz von Suppé: Der Teufel auf Erden (The Devil on Earth), operetta in three acts
Ruprecht, a lowly worker in hell.... Alexander Kuchinka, vocals
Rupert, an off-duty angel.... Matthias Winter, baritone
Mutter Alglaja, a mother superior.... Dagmar Schellenberger, soprano,
Oberst Donnersbach, group captain.... Gerhard Ernst, vocals
Amanda, a nun / Amalia, a ward / Amira, a dance student.... Marie Hänsel, soprano
Isabella, a nun / Isolde, a ward / Iska, a dance student.... Sophia Maeno, mezzo-soprano
Isidor, a scoundrel / Isbert, a cadet / Ismail, a dance student.... Andreas Beinhauer, baritone
Reinhart, a scoundrel / Reinwald, a cadet / Reiner, a dance student.... Benjamin Bruns, tenor
Haderer, hell's gatekeeper / Thomas, cloister gatekeeper / Vice-lieutenant Nebel / Duty officer Spiess / Ball organizer.... Matthias Otte, vocals
Head of the dance school.... Carsten Knödler, (spoken role)
Chemnitz Opera Chorus
Robert Schumann Philharmonie
Jakob Brenner, conductor c.4pm
Farrenc: Overture in E minor Op.23
Grieg: Concerto in A minor Op.16 for piano and orchestra
Elisabeth Brauss, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Francois Leleux, conductor |
| Opera Matinee - The Marriage Of Figaro | 20201126 | | Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Mozart's great masterpiece, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2012 and featuring Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in the title role, Alexsandra Kurzak as Susanna, conducted by Antonio Pappano. Figaro....Ildebrando D' Arcangelo (Bass)
Susanna....Aleksandra Kurzak (Soprano)
Bartolo....Carlo Lepore (Bass)
Marcellina....Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano)
Cherubino....Anna Bonitatibus (Mezzo-Soprano)
Count Almaviva....Lucas Meachem (Baritone)
Basilio....Bonaventura Bottone (Tenor)
Antonio....Jeremy White (Bass)
Don Curzio....Harry Nicoll (Tenor)
Barbarina....Susana Gaspar (Soprano)
Countess Almaviva....Rachel Willis Sorensen (Soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor Antonio Pappano Opera Matinee - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee - Werther | 20210325 | | Tom McKinney introduces a recording of Jules Massenet's 'Werther' from Covent Garden followed by music from the BBC Philharmonic, including the third instalment of Arnold Bax's 'Oliver Twist'. Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato star in this recording of Massenet's dark drama of doomed love set against the stifling constrictions of a stultifying bourgeois marriage. Goethe's epistolary novel about the brooding Werther who develops an obsession for the unattainable Charlotte took Europe by storm in the 1770s. Massenet's operatic version focuses on the bitter-sweet pains and pleasures of a forbidden romance, with the lovers seemingly doing their best to make each other unhappy rather than accepting their fate. This is a recording made of Benoît Jacquot's strikingly beautiful production for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2016. Werther.. Vittorio Grigolo (tenor)
Charlotte.. Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Albert.. David Bizic (baritone)
Magistrate.. Jonathan Summers (bass baritone)
Schmidt.. Francois Piolino (tenor)
Johann.. Yuriy Yurchuk (baritone)
Sophie.. Heather Engebretson (soprano)
Käthchen.. Emily Edmonds (mezzo-soprano)
Brühlmann.. Rick Zwart (baritone)
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor) Followed by music For Radio 3's Manchester Week: Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda Arnold Bax: Music for the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist' - Part 3
BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba Alfredo Casella: Italia
BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda Massenet's operatic masterpiece from Covent Garden Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee And Take Five | 20190613 | | This week's featured opera is 'Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali' (Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage) or 'Viva la Mamma!' by Donizetti, introduced by Elizabeth Alker plus music marking Radio 3's celebration of youth and music, Take Five. Today's featured young musician is the soprano Soraya Mafi. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, opera in two acts Cast:
Donna Agata Scannagalli, Luigia's mother, a Neapolitan.... Laurent Naouri (baritone)
Daria Garbinati, prima donna.... Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Procolo, Daria's husband.... David Bizic (bass)
Luigia Castragatti, seconda donna.... Melody Louledjian (soprano)
Guglielmo Antolstoinoff, primo tenore, a German.... Luciano Botelho (tenor)
Biscroma Strappaviscere, conductor.... Pietro di Bianco (baritone)
Cesare Salsapariglia, druggist and poet.... Enric Martinez-Castignani (baritone)
Pippetto.... Katherine Aitken (mezzo-soprano)
Impresario.... Péter Kálmán (bass)
Director of the Theatre.... Rodrigo Garcia (bass)
Men of the Grand Théâtre of Geneva Chorus
Roberto Balistreri (chorus director)
Geneva Chamber Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) Elizabeth Alker introduces an opera by Donizetti and music marking Radio 3's Take Five. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras This week's featured opera is 'Le Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali' (Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage) or 'Viva la Mamma!' by Donizetti, introduced by Elizabeth Alker plus music marking Radio 3's celebration of youth and music, Take Five. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Le Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, opera in two acts Donna Agata Scannagalli, Luigia's mother, a Neapolitan....Laurent Naouri (baritone)
Daria Garbinati, prima donna....Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Procolo, Daria's husband....David Bizic (bass)
Luigia Castragatti, seconda donna....Melody Louledjian (soprano)
Guglielmo Antolstoinoff, primo tenore, a German....Luciano Botelho (tenor)
Biscroma Strappaviscere, conductor....Pietro di Bianco (baritone)
Cesare Salsapariglia, druggist and poet....Enric Martinez-Castignani (baritone)
Pippetto....Katherine Aitken (mezzo-soprano)
Impresario....Péter Kálmán (bass)
Director of the Theatre....Rodrigo Garcia (bass)
Men of the Grand Théâtre of Geneva Chorus
Roberto Balistreri (chorus director)
Geneva Chamber Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) Cast:
Donna Agata Scannagalli, Luigia's mother, a Neapolitan....Laurent Naouri (baritone)
Daria Garbinati, prima donna....Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Procolo, Daria's husband....David Bizic (bass)
Luigia Castragatti, seconda donna....Melody Louledjian (soprano)
Guglielmo Antolstoinoff, primo tenore, a German....Luciano Botelho (tenor)
Biscroma Strappaviscere, conductor....Pietro di Bianco (baritone)
Cesare Salsapariglia, druggist and poet....Enric Martinez-Castignani (baritone)
Pippetto....Katherine Aitken (mezzo-soprano)
Impresario....Péter Kálmán (bass)
Director of the Theatre....Rodrigo Garcia (bass)
Men of the Grand Théâtre of Geneva Chorus
Roberto Balistreri (chorus director)
Geneva Chamber Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor) |
| Opera Matinee Double Bill - La Cucina And Adina | 20201015 | | Andrew Synnott's La cucina (The Kitchen) tells the story of sous chef Bianca, her tyrannous head chef, and the slightly disastrous baking of a cake. In this production of Rossini's Adina, depicting the wedding of the middle-aged Caliph to young Adina, part of the set was a huge wedding cake. The idea was to connect the two productions at last year's Wexford Festival. Rossini wrote Adina after his popular The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola but it is rarely performed. La Cucina, to a libretto by Rosetta Cucchi, is the first work by a living Irish composer to appear on the festival's main stage. Andrew Synnott: La Cucina
Bianca, a sous-chef.... Máire Flavin, soprano
Alberto Famosissimo, a chef.... Luca Nucera, actor
Zeno, a supplier.... Sheldon Baxter, baritone
Tobia, the supplier's helper.... Manuel Amati, tenor
Camillo, the cook's aid.... Emmanuel Franco, baritone
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Michele Spotti, conductor c.2.40pm
Rossini: Adina
Adina, a slave girl.... Rachel Kelly, mezzo-soprano
Selimo, Adina's former lover.... Levy Sekgapane, tenor
The Caliph, father (unbeknownst to him) of Adina.... Daniele Antonangeli, bass
Ali, a young man.... Manuel Amati, tenor
Mustafa, gardener at the seraglio.... Emmanuel Franco, bass
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Michele Spotti, conductor Wexford Festival 2019: Rossini's Adina and the premiere of Andrew Synnott's The Kitchen Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee With Georgia Mann | 20181025 | | The Opera Matinee is Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto on Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name. It was first performed in 1947. This powerful drama deals with themes of legalized governmental terror, something which the world at the time realized had not been eradicated with the end of the war. Susanna Mälkki conducts a production from the Vienna State Opera starring Wolfgang Koch and Herbert Lippert. The rest of the afternoon includes Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 6 played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted Sir Andrew Davis. 2.00pm
Gottfried von Einem: Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) Georges Danton ….. Wolfgang Koch (baritone)
Camille Desmoulins ….. Herbert Lippert (tenor)
Hérault de Séchelles ….. Jörg Schneider (tenor)
Robespierre ….. Thomas Ebenstein (tenor)
Lucile ….. Olga Bezsmertna (soprano)
Saint Just ….. Ayk Martirossian (bass)
Hermann ….. Clemens Unterreiner (bass)
Simon ….. Wolfgang Bankl (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki (conductor) 2.00pm
Act 1 2.40pm
Act 2 3.15pm
Jonathan Dove: Gaia Theory
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor) 3.40pm
Kenneth Leighton: God's Grandeur; What Love Is This of Thine?
BBC Singers
Paul Spicer (conductor) 3.50pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis 4.20pm
Britten (arr. Colin Matthews): A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) Synopsis - Dantons Tod The opera's first act establishes Danton's confrontation with Robespierre. In the first scene Danton and Camille Desmoulins express their desire for an end of the daily executions to a group of their friends playing cards. Scene two introduces the volatile crowd. Robespierre enters and in an aria sways the crowd and promises more executions. Danton confronts him. After Danton leaves, Robespierre and his colleague Saint-Just decide that he and Camille must be killed. In the last scene of the act Danton announces to Camille and his wife Lucile that he is to be arrested, but he refuses to flee. Act 2 depicts Danton's trial and death. Two scenes before the Revolutionary Tribunal are separated by one with Danton and Camille in prison. Lucile comes to see Camille; she has lost her reason. In the trial scenes the crowd swings between demanding Danton's death and falling under the spell of his eloquent oratory. At the end, in the Place de la Révolution, the condemned prisoners sing "La Marseillaise" in counterpoint to the crowd dancing the Carmagnole. Danton and Camille are guillotined. After the crowd disperses, Lucile enters and sits on the steps of the guillotine. She cries Es lebe der Konig (Long live the king) and is arrested as the curtain falls. Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), an opera by Gottfried von Einem first performed in 1947. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Alceste | 20191003 | | Gluck's Alceste, the story of the Queen of Thessaly and her desire to sacrifice her life for her husband, in a performance recorded at the National Theatre in Munich. Presented by Tom McKinney Plus more from Ireland's RTE National Symphony Orchestra in their 2018/19 concert season. Veronika Eberle and Amihai Grosz join the orchestra for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K.364 under their Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann 2.00pm
Gluck: Alceste Charles Castronovo, tenor - Admeto
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano - Alceste
Michael Nagy, baritone - High Priest of Apollo / Hercules
Manuel Günther, tenor - Evandro
Sean Michael Plumb, baritone - Herald / Apollo
Callum Thorpe, bass - Oracle / Thanatos
Anna El-Khashem, Caspar Singh, Noa Beinart, Frederic Jost - Chorus Leaders
Bavarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Antonello Manacorda, conductor 4.15pm
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K.364
Veronika Eberle, violin
Amihai Grosz, viola
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor Gluck's Alceste recorded at the National Theatre in Munich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Andrea Chenier | 20181108 | | Giordano's Andrea Chénier recorded at La Scala, Milan, starring Yusif Eyvazov and Anna Netrebko. Riccardo Chailly conducts. Presented by Tom Redmond Andrea Chénier was premiered at La Scala in 1896 and this special performance was recorded in December last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary conductor Victor de Sabata. The opera describes the life and untimely death of the French poet André Marie Chénier who was guillotined in 1794 just before the end of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. He falls in love with Maddalena , daughter of the Countess of Coigny, who had initially treated him with disdain but changes her view of him when her mother is murdered by the revolutionaries. Chénier is sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and Maddalena visits him in prison. She bravely bribes the jailer to let her take the place of another condemned prisoner, and the couple express their love for each other as they go to meet their death. 2.00 pm
Giordano: Andrea Chénier Andrea Chénier....Yusif Eyvazov
Maddalena di Coigny....Anna Netrebko
Carlo Gérard....Luca Salsi
La mulatta Bersi....Annalisa Stroppa
La Contessa di Coigny....Mariana Pentcheva
Madelon....Judit Kutasi
Roucher....Gabriele Sagona
Pietro Fléville....Costantino Finucci
Fouquier Tinville....Gianluca Breda
Mathieu....Francesco Verna
Un incredibile....Carlo Bosi
L'Abate....Manuel Pierattelli
Schmidt....Romano Dal Zovo
Il maestro di casa/Dumas....Riccardo Fassi Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Riccardo Chailly, conductor c. 4.00 pm
Sibelius: The Bard
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor c. 4.05 pm
Anton Urspruch: Piano Concerto
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Despax, piano
Eugene Tzigane, conductor Tom Redmond presents Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier recorded at La Scala, Milan Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Andree's Fritiofs Saga - World Premiere | 20191121 | | From Göteborg Opera in Sweden, a world premiere of a late-Romantic opera, first heard in its entirety: Elfrida Andrée's Fritiofs saga, never performed during her lifetime. It's the love story between Viking hero Fritiof, tenor Markus Pettersson, and the king's daughter Ingeborg, soprano Julia Sporsén, whose relationship leads to political conflict, the wrath of the gods, exile and reconciliation, a tale based in Old Norse mythology. Marit Strindlund conducts the Göteborg Opera orchestra and chorus.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.Ingeborg- Julia Sporsén (soprano)
Fritiof - Markus Pettersson (tenor)
King Helge - Mats Almgren (bass)
Guatemi - Ann-Kristin Jones (mezzo-soprano)
King Ring - Carl Ackerfeldt (baritone)
Hilding - Anders Lorentzson (bass)
Björn - Peter Loguin (bass)
Old Woman - Anna-Karin Simlund (contralto)
First Woman - Karin Hammarlund (soprano)
Second Woman - Rakel Haskiya (soprano)
Third Woman - Karin Andersson (contralto)
Voice from above - Yvonne Helander (contralto)
First Slave - Charlie T. Borg (bass)
Second Slave - Erik Enqvis ( tenor)
Third Slave - Thomas Sonefors (bass)
Fourth Slave - Tore Sverredal (tenor)
Voice from the yard - Olof Söderberg (tenor)
A Warrior - Thomas Jönsson (baritone)
Voice from below - Herbjörn Thordarsonm (bass-baritone) Göteborg Opera Chorus
Göteborg Opera Orchestra
Marit Strindlund, conductor Elfrida Andr\u00e9e's saga, inspired by an Old Norse myth, never performed during her lifetime Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras From Göteborg Opera in Sweden, a world premiere of a late-Romantic opera: Elfrida Andrée's Fritiofs saga (Frithiof's Saga), never performed during her lifetime. It's the love story between Viking hero Fritiof, tenor Markus Pettersson, and the king's daughter Ingeborg, soprano Julia Sporsén, whose relationship leads to political conflict, the wrath of the gods, exile and reconciliation, a tale based in Old Norse mythology. Marit Strindlund conducts the Göteborg Opera orchestra and chorus. For a full synopsis, see below.
It's followed by the Ulster Orchestra in Roxanna Panufnik's Four World Seasons for violin and orchestra, with Tasmin Little as soloist.
Presented by Fiona Talkington. 2pm
Fritiofs saga (Frithiof's Saga) - Opera in three acts by Elfrida Andrée 4.30pm
Roxanna Panufnik: Four World Seasons, for violin and orchestra Tasmin Little, violin
The Ulster Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni, conductor |
| Opera Matinee: Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall | 20191219 | | Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. Today's opera matinee is the BBC Concert Orchestra performing Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall, his first work after his famous partnership with W.S Gilbert ended. With a libretto by Sydney Grundy, it's based on the legend of sixteenth century Haddon Hall heiress Dorothy Vernon's elopement with John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. The action is set against the backdrop of the English Civil War between the Royalists and the Roundheads. Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall
John Manners, a Royalist.... Ed Lyon (tenor)
Sir George Vernon, a Roundhead.... Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Oswald, a Royalist.... Adrian Thompson (tenor)
Rupert Vernon, a Roundhead.... Ben McAteer (baritone)
The McCrankie.... Donald Maxwell (baritone)
Dorothy Vernon.... Sarah Tynan (soprano)
Lady Vernon.... Fiona Kimm (contralto) -
Dorcas.... Angela Simkin (mezzo)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews, conductor 3.50pm Brahms, orch. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet, Op 25 The Ulster Orchestra
Mihhail Gerts, conductor Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bartok Double Bill | 20210128 | | Tom McKinney introduces 'Judith: Concerto for Orchestra/Bluebeard's Castle', a novel production of music by Bartok devised by Katie Mitchell for Bavarian State Opera which was recorded early last year in Munich. Judith - Nina Stemme (Soprano)
Johh Lundgren - Bluebeard (bass) Bavarian State Orchestra conducted by Oksana Lyniv. The Bavarian State Opera perform a duo of works by Bartok devised by Katie Mitchell. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bellini's Il Pirata | 20190530 | | Premiered at La Scala in 1827, Bellini's Il Pirata was an immediate success. The story is set in Sicily in the 13th century and concerns the exiled Count Gualtiero, who has become a pirate. He returns to discover that his fiancée, Imogene, in order to save her father's life, has married Gualtiero's enemy, Ernesto. Presented by Kate Molleson Imogene, wife of Ernesto....Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
Gualtiero, former Count of Montalto....Piero Pretti (tenor)
Ernesto, Duke of Caldora....Nicola Alaimo (baritone)
Itulbo, Gualtiero's lieutenant....Francesco Pittari (tenor)
Goffredo, a hermit....Riccardo Fassi (bass)
Adele, Imogen's companion....Marina de Liso (soprano)
La Scala Chorus
La Scala Orchestra
Riccardo Frizza (conductor) Sonya Yoncheva and Pierro Pretti star at La Scala Milan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bellini's La Sonnambula | 20190425 | | In a performance recorded at the Slovene National Theatre, one of Bellini's best-loved operas, La sonnambula, is a heady brew of passion and jealousy that has excited and moved audiences ever since its premiere in 1831 Amina is about to marry Elvino, but her plans are disrupted when a stranger, Count Rodolfo, arrives and provokes Elvino's jealousy. Later that night when Amina sleepwalks towards Rodolfo, Elvino assumes she's been unfaithful to him Presented by Hannah French 2.00pm
Bellini: La sonnambula - opera in two acts
Lisa.... Valentina Čuden (soprano)
Amina.... Petya Ivanova (soprano)
Teresa.... Irena Petkova (mezzo-soprano)
Elvino.... Martin Sušnik (tenor)
Count Rodolfo.... Luka Brajnik (baritone)
Slovene National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra
Simon Robinson (conductor) 4.10pm
Haydn: L'isola disabitata - overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2
Laura Samuel (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich (conductor) Bellini's opera La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) recorded at the Slovene National Theatre. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras 2.00pm
Bellini: La sonnambula - opera in two acts
Lisa....Valentina Čuden (soprano)
Amina....Petya Ivanova (soprano)
Teresa....Irena Petkova (mezzo-soprano)
Elvino....Martin Sušnik (tenor)
Count Rodolfo....Luka Brajnik (baritone)
Slovene National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra
Simon Robinson (conductor) |
| Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma | 20181018 | | Opera matinée - Presented by Kate Molleson From La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Bellini's opera Norma, recorded last May. Soprano Mariella Devia sings the title role as the doomed High Priestess who loses everything, even her life - one of the most taxing female roles in the entire operatic canon - in this tragic story set in occupied Ancient Gaul. Riccardo Frizza conducts the orchestra and chorus of La Fenice Theatre, plus a starry cast. Norma, daughter of Oroveso, High Priestess of the Druids - Mariella Devia: soprano
Pollione, Roman proconsul in Gaul - Stefan Pop: tenor
Adalgisa, priestess in the grove of the Irminsul statue - Carmela Remigio: mezzo-soprano
Oroveso, chief of the Druids - Luca Tittoto: bass
Clotilde, Norma's friend - Anna Bordignon: soprano La Fenice Theatre Orchestra
La Fenice Theatre Chorus
Riccardo Frizza , conductor Into the Forest: Bellini's Norma from La Fenice with Mariella Devia in the title role Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma | 20200220 | | The greatest tragic Italian opera before Verdi's, conducted by Antonio Pappano. A performance from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of Norma, the druidic priestess in ancient Gaul who breaks her vows of chastity with an enemy Roman - and pays the ultimate price. Highlights include Norma's beautiful aria "Casta diva" ("Virtuous goddess") and her fiery duet with her unfaithful lover Pollione, sung by Joseph Calleja. Presented by Kate Molleson Norma, high priestess of the druids.... Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano)
Pollione, Roman official.... Joseph Calleja (Tenor)
Adalgisa, a younger priestess.... Sonia Ganassi (Contralto)
Oroveso, chief druid, Norma's father.... Brindley Sherratt (Bass)
Flavio, Pollione's friend.... David Junghoon Kim (Tenor)
Clotilde, Norma's friend.... Vlada Borovko (Soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor Antonio Pappano Followed at 4.30pm by another highlight from the 2019 Verbier Festival.
Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D major, K.297/300a (Paris)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Leonidas Kavakos Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma From The Hamburg State Opera | 20210107 | | Tom McKinney with the 2020 production of Bellini's "Norma" from the Hamburg State Opera, conducted by Matteo Baltrami and with Marina Rebeka in the title role of the doomed Druid priestess. Vincenzo Bellini: Norma Marina Rebeka, soprano (Norma)
Marcelo Puente, tenor (Pollione)
Diana Haller, mezzo-soprano (Adalgisa)
Liang Li, bass (Oroveso)
Gabriele Rossmanith, soprano (Clotilde)
Dongwon Kang, tenor (Flavio) Hamburg State Opera Chorus
Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra
Matteo Baltrami, conductor Tom McKinney with a 2020 production of Bellini's opera Norma from the Hamburg State Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Following this afternoon's opera matinee, we return to this week's featured orchestra - the NDR Elbphilharmonie, and part of a concert they gave in January 2019 which showcased excerpts from Richard Wagner's operas. Here, soprano Nina Stemme joins the orchestra for three excerpts from Gotterdammerung. Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March; Brunnhilde's Final Scene [Gotterdammerung] Nina Stemme, soprano
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Marek Janowski, conductor |
| Opera Matinee: Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini | 20190221 | | In our Opera Matinée: Berlioz's first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, a semi-comical story, largely fictional, based on the flamboyant Florentine sculptor who manages to triumph against all odds in both love and art as he gains the heart of his lover Teresa while fulfilling a significant commission by Pope Clement VII. The American tenor John Osborn takes the title role, while the South African soprano Pretty Yende is Teresa. Philippe Jordan conducts a starry cast at the helm of the Paris National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, in a recording made last year. Presented by Penny Gore Benvenuto Cellini....John Osborn (Tenor)
Teresa....Pretty Yende (Soprano)
Giacomo Balducci....Maurizio Muraro (Bass)
Fieramosca....Audun Iversen (Baritone)
Pope Clement VII....Marco Spotti (Bass)
Francesco....Vincent Delhoume (Tenor)
Bernardino....Luc Bertin-hugault (Bass)
Pompeo....Rodolphe Briand (Tenor)
Innkeeper....Se-Jin Hwang (Tenor)
Ascanio....Michele Losier (Mezzo-soprano) Paris Opera Theatre Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Philippe Jordan (Conductor) Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini from the Paris National Opera with John Osborn as Cellini. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bizet's Carmen | 20190516 | | Bizet's story of seduction and betrayal, which shocked 19th-century conventions with its gritty eroticism only to become one of the most loved works in all of opera. Don José falls hopelessly in love with the wild gypsy, Carmen. When she tires of him and just wants to be free, it's too much for him to bear and he stabs her. In this performance from Aix-en-Provence, mezzo Stéphanie d'Oustrac sings the title role of the ill-fated temptress, and Michael Fabiano her desperate lover. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Paris Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Bizet: Carmen Stephanie d'Oustrac - Carmen, Mezzo-soprano
Michael Fabiano - Don José, Tenor
Elsa Dreisig - Micaëla, Soprano
Michael Todd Simpson - Escamillo, Baritone
Gabrielle Philiponet - Frasquita, Soprano
Virginie Verrez - Mercédès, Mezzo-soprano
Christian Helmer - Zuniga, Bass-baritone
Choeur Aedes; Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhone
Orchestre de Paris
Pablo Heras-Casado – Conductor Bizet's dazzling, gritty story of seduction and betrayal, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Bizet's The Pearl Fishers | 20191226 | | From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Bizet's 1863 tale of eternal friendship and conflict in love. Set in Ceylon, pearl divers Nadir and Zurga talk about the time their friendship was nearly destroyed when they both fell in love with the same woman - the beautiful Hindu priestess Leila. When a veiled princess arrives in the village, Nadir immediately recognises it as Leila, who he still loves, and which will test their friendship once again. The themes of love, betrayal and vengeance are brought to life in Bizet's exotic score, which includes ravishing music such as the famous duet, Au fond du temple saint. Antonio Pappano conducts a cast including John Osborn and Gerald Finley as the rival pearl divers and Nicole Cabell as the object of their affection. Presented by Fiona Talkington. 2pm
The Pearl Fishers - Opera in three acts by Georges Bizet
Bizet / The Pearl Fishers
Léïla.... Nicole Cabell (soprano)
Nadir.... John Osborn (tenor)
Zurga.... Gerald Finley (baritone)
Nourabad.... Raymond Aceto (bass) Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano, conductor A tale of eternal friendship turns to conflict in love. From the Royal Opera House. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Cav And Pag | 20200507 | | Penny Gore presents Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Opera Matinée: Penny Gore introduces the double bill of Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni and Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, from Barcelona. Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera in one act, adapted from a play and short story by Giovanni Verga Elena Pankratova, soprano, Santuzza, a peasant girl
Roberto Alagna, tenor, Turiddu, a young villager recently returned from the army
María Luisa Corbacho, contralto, Mamma Lucia, Turiddu's mother
Gabriele Viviani, baritone, Alfio, a carter
Mercedes Gancedo, mezzo-soprano, Lola, wife of Alfio 3.10pm: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera in a prologue and two acts Roberto Alagna, tenor, Canio, head of the troupe (Pagliaccio/Pierrot, Colombina's Husband)
Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano, Nedda, Canio's wife, in love with Silvio (Colombina, Pagliaccio's wife, in love with Arlecchino)
Gabriele Viviani, baritone, Tonio the fool (Taddeo, Colombina's servant)
Vicenç Esteve, tenor, Beppe, actor (Arlecchino, Colombina's lover)
Duncan Rock, baritone, Silvio, Nedda's lover Amics de la Unió Children's Chorus, Granollers
Josep Vila i Jover, chorus director
Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Orchestra
Henrik Nánási, conductor 4.25: Another highlight of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's season: Tchaikovsky Suite no. 4 in G major Op.61 (Mozartiana) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Recorded 12/03/20 in Glasgow City Halls |
| Opera Matinee: Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto | 20190627 | | An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould, this tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom is a riot of fun and Cimarosa's only work still to be regularly performed, in a recording by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège.
Presented by Penny Gore.2pm
Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage)
Carolina.... Céline Mellon (soprano)
Paolino.... Matteo Falcier (tenor)
Il Conte Robinson.... Mario Cassi (bass)
Elisetta.... Sophie Junker (soprano)
Fidalma.... Annunziata Vestri (mezzo-soprano)
Il Signor Geronimo.... Patrick Delcour (bass)
Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Ayrton Desimpelaere (conductor) An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould; a tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom! Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould, this tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom is a riot of fun and Cimarosa's only work still regularly performed, in this recording by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège.
Presented by Penny Gore. 2pm
Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage)
Carolina....Céline Mellon (soprano)
Paolino....Matteo Falcier (tenor)
Il Conte Robinson....Mario Cassi (bass)
Elisetta....Sophie Junker (soprano)
Fidalma....Annunziata Vestri (mezzo-soprano)
Il Signor Geronimo....Patrick Delcour (bass)
Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Ayrton Desimpelaere (conductor) |
| Opera Matinee: D'indy's Fervaal | 20201231 | | From the Radio France and Montpellier Festival 2019, Michael Schønwandt conducts Vincent D'Indy's rarely heard, Wagner-inspired, epic drama 'Fervaal'. Tenor Michael Spyres takes the title role as the son of the Celtic king destined to save his people from invasion and destruction at the hands of the Saracens. But fate has other plans as he falls in love with Guilhen, daughter of the enemy Emir... The tragic end of their relationship is foretold in the prophecy: 'only death will bring new life'. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
D'Indy: Fervaal - Prologue and 3 Acts Fervaal.... Michael Spyres (tenor)
Guilhen.... Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano)
Arfagard.... Jean-Sébastien Bou (baritone)
Kaïto.... Elisabeth Jansson (mezzo-soprano)
Grympuig.... Nicolas Legoux (bass)
Ferkemnat/Moussah.... Rémy Mathieu (tenor)
Lennsmor.... Eric Huchet (tenor)
Geywihr/Farmer.... Matthieu Lécroart (baritone)
Penwald/uduann.... Eric Martin-Bonnet (bass)
Messenger/Farmers.... Pierre Doyen (baritone)
Gwellkingubar/Farmer.... Jérôme Boutillier (baritone)
Berddret.... Anas Seguin (bass)
Helwrig.... Guilhem Worms (bass-baritone)
Farmer/Shepherd/Bard.... François Rougier (tenor)
Latvian Radio Choir
Montpellier Occitanie National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Michael Schønwandt From Radio France and Montpellier Festival 2019, with Michael Spyres in the title role. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Penny Gore. |
| Opera Matinee: Don Giovanni | 20180927 | | 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
Mozart: Don Giovanni K.527 Don Giovanni, a nobleman....Carlos Álvarez, baritone
Donna Anna, a noblewoman....Erika Grimaldi, soprano
Donna Elvira, Giovanni's scorned lover....Carmela Remigio, soprano
Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fiancé....Juan Francisco Gatell, tenor
Leporello, Don Giovanni's manservant....Mirco Palazzi, bass
Zerlina, a peasant girl....Rocío Ignacio, soprano
Masetto, Zerlina's fiancé....Fabio Maria Capitanucci, bass
Il Commendatore, Donna Anna's father....Gianluca Buratto, bass
Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin
Daniele Rustioni, conductor 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 Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded at the Teatro Regio, Turin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor | 20200521 | | An archive recording from the Royal Opera House in London, starring Diana Damrau. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras An archive recording of Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor, staged at the Royal Opera House in London and first heard in 2016. The soprano Diana Damrau is the innocent Lucia who is forced into marriage to save the family fortunes, although she's in love with another man - Edgardo, sung in this performance by Charles Castronovo. In this tragic drama inspired by Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, Daniel Oren conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Following the opera, we return to this week's Swiss theme this week with a performance from the 2019 Lucerne Festival. Presented by Hannah French. 2.00pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in 3 Acts Lucia Ashton.... Diana Damrau (soprano)
Enrico Ashton, her brother.... Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Normanno, huntsman.... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Alisa, Lucia's companion.... Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-soprano)
Edgardo Ravenswood.... Charles Castronovo (tenor)
Raimondo Bidebent, Calvinish chaplain.... Kwangchul Youn (bass)
Arturo Bucklaw, Lucia's bridegroom.... Taylor Stayton (tenor)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Daniel Oren, conductor 4.30pm
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16
Members of the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble
Riccardo Chailly, conductor |
| Opera Matinee: Dvorak's King And Charcoal Burner | 20201008 | | Dvorak's comic opera King and Charcoal Burner tells the folkloric story of the legendary King Matyas and his adventures with the collier Matej and his daughter Liduska in the dense forests of central Bohemia. Originally written in 1871 when Dvorak was still eking out a living as a violist at Pragueʼs Provisional Theatre and was yet to receive any public performances, the first version was returned to the young composer described by its conductor, Bedrich Smetana, as 'unperformable'. Several subsequent revisions were made but today's concert performance, recorded last September at the Dvorak's Prague International Festival, is the modern day premiere of the original score.
Presented by Tom McKinney.Dvorak: King and Charcoal Burner
Kateřina Kněžíková, soprano... Liduška, Matěj's daughter
Richard Samek, tenor... Jeník, a young charcoal burner
Roman Hoza, baritone... King Matyáš
Jozef Benci, bass... Matěj, coal-burner in the Křivoklát forests
Lucie Hilscherová, contralto... Anna, Matěj's wife
Josef Moravec, tenor... Jindřich, Burgrave of Křivoklát
Dana Burešová, soprano... Královna
Jana Sibera, soprano... Eva
Jan Šťáva, bass... Sekáček
Ondrej Koplík, tenor... First hunter (knight)
Michal Onufer, bass... Second hunter (knight)
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek, chorus director
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tomáš Brauner, conductor Dvorak's folkloric opera King and Charcoal Burner, recorded in Prague in 2019. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Ethel Smyth's Feate Galante | 20200305 | | Presented by Penny Gore.
Ethel Smyth's one-act opera Fête galante, which was described by the composer as a Dance Dream. It was inspired by the commedia dell'arte and aristocratic open-air festivities of old, with costumes and masques. The piece, written in the neo-classical style to pay homage to its legacy, has dark connotations though, as it features the death of Pierrot, hanged by a jealous king. This version was recorded last year by the Lontano Ensemble under conductor Odaline de la Martinez, accompanying a cast including Felix Kempe as Pierrot and Charmian Bedford as Columbine.
It's followed by another excerpt from the recent BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion cycle, dedicated to the music of the German composer Detlev Glanert. Today we've selected his Three Pieces for Clarinet, performed by musicians of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Then the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Michael Seal, present a concert with pieces by female composers, among them Dani Howard, Florence Price, Elzabeth Maconchy and Isidora Žebeljan. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen makes an appearance too.
The afternoon closes with the ensemble performing Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, inspired in the opera by Georges Bizet, under the baton of Gergely Madaras.2.00pm
Ethel Smyth: Fête galante - a Dance-Dream in One Act: Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story Columbine - Charmian Bedford (soprano)
The Queen - Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)
Pierrot - Felix Kemp (baritone)
The King - Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
The Lover - Mark Milhofer (tenor)
Harlequin - Alessandro Fisher (tenor) Lontano Ensemble
Odaline de la Martinez, conductor 2.50pm
Glanert: Three Pieces for Clarinet (2003)
Raymond Brien, clarinet
Matthew Gemmill, piano 3.10pm
Dani Howard: Argentum
Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante*
Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin*
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor 4.10pm
Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras, conductor A Dance Dream in One Act. Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Penny Gore.
Ethel Smyth's one-act opera Fête galante, which was described by the composer as a 'dance-dream'. It was inspired by the commedia dell'arte and aristocratic open-air festivities of old, with costumes and masques. The piece, written in the neo-classical style to pay homage to its legacy, has dark connotations though, as it features the death of Pierrot, hanged by a jealous king. This version was recorded last year by the Lontano Ensemble under conductor Odaline de la Martinez, accompanying a cast including Felix Kempe as Pierrot and Charmian Bedford as Columbine.
It's followed by another excerpt from the recent BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion cycle, dedicated to the music of the German composer Detlev Glanert. Today we've selected his Three Pieces for Clarinet, performed by musicians of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Then the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Michael Seal, present a concert with pieces by female composers, among them Dani Howard, Florence Price, Elzabeth Maconchy and Isidora Žebeljan. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen makes an appearance too.
The afternoon closes with the ensemble performing Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, inspired in the opera by Georges Bizet, under the baton of Gergely Madaras. 2.00pm
Ethel Smyth: Fête galante - a Dance- Dream in One Act: Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story BBCSO
Gergely Madaras, conductor A 'Dance-Dream in One Act.' Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story. |
| Opera Matinee: Falla's La Vida Breve | 20190214 | | A new recording of Falla's vivid, passionate opera from the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, followed by Elgar & Novak from the BBC Symphony Orchestra 2.00pm
Falla: La vida breve
Nancy Fabiola Herrera - Mezzo-soprano
Aquiles Machado - Tenor
Cristina Faus - Mezzo-soprano
Gustavo Pena - Singer
Josep Miquel Ramon - Baritone
Jose Antonio Lopez - Baritone
Vicente Coves - Guitar
Raquel de Luna - Dancer
Segundo Falcon - Singer
Spanish Radio Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena - Conductor Visit the programme page for La Vida Breve synopsis 3.05pm
Elgar: Serenade for strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 3.15pm
Novak: Eternal Longing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) 3.35pm
Musgrave: Songs for a Winter Evening
Lisa Milne (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor) 4.00pm
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 'Pastoral'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) The BBC Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras perform works by Falla, Elgar and Novak. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten | 20180614 | | 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)
Count Tamare.... Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Lodovico Nardi.... Alastair Miles (bass-baritone)
Carlotta Nardi.... Catherine Naglestad (soprano)
Alviano Salvago.... John Daszak (tenor)
Guidobaldo Usodimare.... Matthew Grills (tenor)
Menaldo Negroni.... Kevin Conners (tenor)
Michelotto Cibo.... Sean Michael Plumb (baritone)
Gonsalvo Fieschi.... Andrea Borghini
Julian Pinelli.... Peter Lobert
Paolo Calvi.... Andreas Wolf
Capitano di giustizia.... Tomasz Konieczny
Ginevra Scotti.... Paula Iancic
Martuccia.... Heike Grötzinger
Pietro.... Dean Power
Ein Jüngling.... Galeano Salas
Dessen Freund, Diener, Ein riesiger Bürger.... Milan Siljanov
Ein Mädchen.... Selene Zanetti
Senator 1.... Ulrich Ress
Senator 2.... Christian Rieger
Senator 3.... Kristof Klorek
Dienerin.... Niamh O'Sullivan Bavarian State Opera Chorus
Bavarian State Opera Children's Chorus
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher (conductor). Kate Molleson presents Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice | 20190620 | | Tom McKinney presents a performance of Gluck's three-act opera from Italian Radio, recorded at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Orfeo ed Euridice, opera in three acts, based on the myth of Orpheus Librettist: Ranieri de Calzabigi (1714-1795) Cast: Orfeo....Carlo Vistoli (countertenor)
Euridice....Mariangela Sicilia (soprano)
Amore....Emőke Baráth (soprano)
Rome Opera Chorus
Roberto Gabbiani (chorus director)
Rome Opera Orchestra
Gianluca Capuano (conductor) Tom McKinney presents a performance of Gluck's three-act opera from Italian Radio. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Gounod's Le Tribut De Zamora | 20180607 | | 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)
Hermosa, Xaïma's long-lost mother... Jennifer Holloway (mezzo-soprano)
Manoël, Xaïma's fiancé... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Ben-Saïd, envoy of the caliph of Cordoba... Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)
Handjar, brother of Ben-Saïd... Boris Pinkhasovich (baritone)
Iglésia, Xaïma's friend / A young slave... Juliette Mars (mezzo-soprano)
King of tenth-century Asturias / An Arab
soldier... Jérôme Boutillier (baritone)
Mayor / Judge... Artavazd Sargsyan (tenor)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra
Conductor Hervé Niquet. Jonathan Swain celebrates Gounod's 200th birthday with his final opera Le Tribut de Zamora Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Gyf6rgy Kurte1g's Fin De Partie | 20190711 | | World premiere of 'Fin de partie', György Kurtág's first ever opera, written at the age of 91, recorded recently at La Scala theatre in Milan. Based on a famous play by Samuel Beckett and featuring four characters only, this is an existential reflection on the passing of time and the meaning of life, which unfolds in one act. La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, and a cast of soloists lead by the bass Frode Olsen, are conducted by Markus Stenz.
Then, the afternoon continues with another recording by the Suisse Romande Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, with its Music and Artistic Director, Jonathan Nott, conducting Schoenberg's Erwartung, Op. 17, a monodrama also in one act, featuring the soprano Angela Denoke in the sole role.
Closing the afternoon, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Kate Molleson.2.00pm
Kurtag: Fin de partie, in one act
Hamm....Frode Olsen (bass)
Clov....Leigh Melrose (baritone)
Nell....Hilary Summers (contralto)
Nagg....Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Markus Stenz, conductor 4.04pm
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17, monodrama in one act
Angela Denoke, soprano
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott, conductor 4.40
New Music Biennial
Roderick Williams: Three Songs from Ethiopia Boy
Chris Beckett (poet)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Chineke! Orchestra
Eduardo Portal (conductor) World premiere of Kurt\u00e1g's first-ever stage work, based on Beckett, from La Scala, Milan. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras World premiere of 'Fin de partie', György Kurtág's first ever opera, written at the age of 91, recorded recently at La Scala theatre in Milan. Based on a famous play by Samuel Beckett and featuring four characters only, this is an existential reflection on the passing of time and the meaning of life, which unfolds in one act. La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, and a cast of soloists led by the bass Frode Olsen, are conducted by Markus Stenz.
Then, the afternoon continues with another recording by the Suisse Romande Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, with its Music and Artistic Director, Jonathan Nott, conducting Schoenberg's Erwartung, Op. 17, a monodrama also in one act, featuring the soprano Angela Denoke in the sole role.
Closing the afternoon, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore. 4.40
New Music Biennial - work World premiere of 'Fin de partie', György Kurtág's first ever opera, written at the age of 91, recorded recently at La Scala theatre in Milan. Based on a famous play by Samuel Beckett and featuring four characters only, this is an existential reflection on the passing of time and the meaning of life, which unfolds in one act. La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, and a cast of soloists lead by the bass Frode Olsen, are conducted by Markus Stenz.
Then, the afternoon continues with another recording by the Suisse Romande Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, with its Music and Artistic Director, Jonathan Nott, conducting Schoenberg's Erwartung, Op. 17, a monodrama also in one act, featuring the soprano Angela Denoke in the sole role.
Closing the afternoon, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Kate Molleson. 4.04pm
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17, monodrama in one act
Angela Denoke, soprano
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott, conductor |
| Opera Matinee: Handel's Rinaldo | 20190124 | | A story of love, war and redemption, set at the time of the First Crusade, Handel's Rinaldo was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. Le Caravansérail directed by Bertrand Cuiller bring a top-rate cast to this enduring story, recorded at the opening concert of the Musica Antiqua Festival (known as the MAfestival) in Bruges last year. After the opera, more Bach from the Monteverdi Choir plus the world premiere of Marko Ivanović's song cycle based on the poems of Dorothy Parker 'Little Words'. Katarina Karnéus joins the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. Handel: Rinaldo
Rinaldo....Paul-Antoine Bénos (countertenor)
Goffredo....Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)
Almirena....Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano)
Armida....Aurore Bucher (soprano)
Argante....Thomas Dolié (bass)
Ensemble Le Caravansérail
Bertrand Cuiller (Director) c.4.15pm
Bach: Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?, BWV 81
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner , conductor
Recorded at Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum c.4.30pm
Marko Ivanović: Little Words
Katarina Karnéus , mezzo-soprano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marko Ivanović , conductor
Smetana Hall, A story of love, war and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Janacek's Fate | 20191107 | | Fate, written in 1904, is the strangest of Leoš Janáček's peculiar operas. The relationship of the main character, composer Živný, with Míla Válková ends with a tragedy caused by Míla's insane mother. Živný also becomes a character in his own opera, whose third act remains in God's hands. Everything is shrouded in mysterious shadows of the past, while the future is lit by lightning, which Živný calls down on himself and his destiny - his Fate Presented by Kate Molleson 2.00pm
Janáček
Fate, opera in three acts
Martin Šrejma, tenor - Živný, a composer
Veronika Holbová, soprano - Míla Valková
Petra Alvarez Šimková, soprano - Mila´s mother
Tomáš Kořínek, tenor - Doctor Suda
Jakub Kettner, baritone - Lhotský, a painter
Lukáš Bařák, baritone - Verva/Konečný
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Chorus & Orchestra
Jakub Klecker, conductor 3.20pm
Antheil
Symphony no.4
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor 4.05pm
Prokofiev
Symphony no.6
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen, conductor Janacek's opera Fate, recorded at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Janacek's Katya Kabanova | 20191114 | | Brno hosts the largest festival dedicated to Janáček's operas and it was at the 2018 Janáček Brno festival that today's opera matinee Kátya Kabanová was recorded - conducted by Ondrej Olos and in a production by Robert Carsen with soprano Pavla Vykopalová in the title role. Kátya Kabanová is based on Vincenc Červinka's Czech translation of The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The action takes place in a small, isolated Russian town on the banks of the river Volga. In this repressive society in which rules and appearances are all that matter, Katya feels trapped. Unhappily married to Tichon, who is dominated by his bitter and controlling mother Kabanicha, she longs to escape. When Tichon goes away on a journey, Kátya lets Tichon's foster-sister Varvara persuade her to meet her young neighbour Boris. While Varvara enjoys a tryst with her own lover Kudrjáš, Boris and Kátya meet and fall in love. When Tichon returns Katya's guilt and regret prove more than she can bear. For a full synopsis, see below. 2pm
Leoš Janáček: Kátya Kabanová
Katya Kabanova.... Pavla Vykopalová (soprano)
Boris Grigorjevič, Katya's lover.... Magnus Vigilius (tenor)
Tichon Kabanov, Katya's husband.... Gianluca Zampieri (tenor)
Kabanicha, Tichon's mother.... Eva Urbanová (contralto)
Dikoy, Boris' uncle.... Jiří Sulženko (bass-baritone)
Varvara, foster daughter of the family.... Lenka Čermáková (mezzo-soprano)
Kudryash, Varvara's lover.... Jaroslav Březina (tenor)
Kuligin, friend of Kudryash.... Igor Loškár (baritone)
Feklusha.... Jitka Zerhauová (mezzo-soprano)
Žena. a woman in the crowd.... Hana Procházková (contralto)
Janáček Theatre Chorus
Janáček Theatre Orchestra
Ondrej Olos (conductor) c.3.35pm
Arthur Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor c.4.10pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 'Pastoral'
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor From the 2018 Brno festival, Janacek's tragic opera depicts a woman desperate for love. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Korngold's Die Tote Stadt And Stravinsky's Petrushka | 20191017 | | Opera Matinée – from La Scala, Milan, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Plus Stravinsky's Petrushka with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis. Presented by Penny Gore. Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) recorded live earlier this year at La Scala opera house in Milan, with the tenor Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul and the soprano Asmik Grigorian as Marietta in this tragic tale of love, angst and remorse where the living and the dead play their part. La Scala Chorus, Orchestra and soloists are conducted by Alan Gilbert.
Continuing this week's recordings from the Prague Spring Festival '19, the afternoon finishes with Stravinsky's suite from the ballet Petrushka, performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jessica Cottis. 2.00pm
Erich Wolfgang Korngold:
Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), opera in three acts Paul - Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor)
Marietta, a dancer - Asmik Grigorian (soprano)
Frank, Paul's friend / Fritz, the Pierrot - Markus Werba (baritone)
Brigitta, Paul's housekeeper - Cristina Damian (contralto)
Juliette, a dancer - Marika Spadafino (soprano)
Lucienne, a dancer - Daria Cherniy (mezzo-soprano)
Victorin, a regisseur - Sergei Ababkin (tenor)
Count Albert / Gastone, a dancer - Sascha Emanuel Kramer ( tenor) La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Milan
Alan Gilbert, conductor 4.20pm
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka - suite Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis, conductor Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) at La Scala, Milan, plus Stravinsky's Petrushka. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Penny Gore. |
| Opera Matinee: Le Timbre D'argent | 20181129 | | Le timbre d'argent (The Silver Bell), by Camille Saint-Saëns. Performed by Opéra Comique in a recording from 2017.
Presented by Tom McKinney.Conrad....Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Hélène....Hélène Guilmette (soprano)
Spiridion....Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)
Bénédict....Yu Shao (tenor)
Rosa....Jodie Devos (soprano)
Patrick....Jean-Yves Ravoux (tenor)
Frantz.... Matthieu Chapuis (tenor)
Circé/ Fiammetta....Raphaëlle Delaunay (ballerina) Accentus
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth (conductor) Synopsis
On a Christmas night, Conrad, an obscure Viennese painter, rebels against misery. Unlucky in love and society, he can't take it any longer. During a deep crisis of despair, his physician appears to him in the guise of a devil. He offers him a magical object, his silver bell, each ringing of which will make him rich in abundance, while causing the death of an innocent. Upon waking, bewitched Conrad strikes the bell: gold flows but the dead are already collapsed on his doorstep. Le timbre d'argent (The Silver Bell), by Camille Saint-Saens performed by Opera Comique. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Conrad....Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Hélène....Hélène Guilmette (soprano)
Spiridion....Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)
Bénédict....Yu Shao (tenor)
Rosa....Jodie Devos (soprano)
Patrick....Jean-Yves Ravoux (tenor)
Frantz....Matthieu Chapuis (tenor)
Circé/ Fiammetta....Raphaëlle Delaunay (ballerina) |
| Opera Matinee: Leopold Kozeluch's Gustav Vasa | 20190509 | | Opera from around the world, presented by Georgia Mann. Leopold Koželuch: Gustav Vasa, opera in three acts Mario Zeffiri, tenor, Gustav Vasa (Gustav Ericsson Wasa)
Cornelius Uhle, bass-baritone, Christian II of Denmark (Christiern II)
Niall Chorell, tenor, Søren Norby (Severin Norrby), naval officer in the fleet of Charles II
Martina Janková, soprano, Christina Gyllenstierna, widow of Sten Sture
Helena Juntunen, soprano, Cecilia of Eka (Cecilia Månsdotter Eka), Gustav's mother
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano, Margareta Vasa (Margaretha Wasa), Gustav's sister
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano, Guardian Angel of Sweden Helsinki Chamber Choir
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra
Aapo Häkkinen, conductor Koželuch's only surviving opera, Gustav Vasa, is resurrected two centuries after the composer's death! The Czech-born composer Leopold Koželuch was a significant competitor of Mozart, and among their contemporaries, even more acknowledged of the two.
Gustav Vasa explores the important event in the history of the Swedish nation: the battle between Sweden and Denmark at the beginning of the 16th century. A performance by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Helsinki Chamber Choir. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Lucia Di Lammermoor | 20191031 | | Tom McKinney continues his week of Scottish-flavoured afternoons with a performance of Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor, inspired by the novel by Walter Scott.
Written in an inspired outpouring of creativity, Donizetti's three act Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the most important and popular masterpieces in the Romantic Italian Bel Canto tradition. A story of love, hate and passion centred around the love triangle of Lucia, Edgardo and Enrico. It has been in the Vienna State Opera's repertory since 1926. This recording from Vienna was made this summer with the Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko in the title role.CAST George Petean, baritone, Lord Enrico Ashton
Olga Peretyatko, coloratura soprano, Lucia
Juan Diego Flórez, tenor, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood
Lukhanyo Moyake, tenor, Lord Arturo Bucklaw, Lucia's bridegroom
Jongmin Park, bass, Raimondo Bidebent
Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano, Alisa, Lucia's handmaid
Leonardo Navarro, tenor, Normanno, huntsman and retainer of Enrico Vienna State Opera Chorus
Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Evelino Pidò, conductor The Vienna State Opera presents a performance of Donizetti's tragic opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor | 20200910 | | Tom McKinney presents Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Cast: Jadwiga....Monika Ledzion-Porczyńska, mezzo-soprano
Zbigniew....Mariusz Godlewski, baritone
Miecznik, sword-bearer....Tomasz Konieczny, bass-baritone
Skołuba....Rafał Siwek, bass
Marta....Joanna Krasuska-Motulewicz, mezzo-soprano
Hanna....Edyta Piasecka, soprano
Cześnikowa, Chamberlain's wife....Malgorzata Walewska, mezzo-soprano
Stefan....Arnold Rutkowski, tenor
Grześ....Paweł Cichoński, tenor
Maciej....Marcin Bronikowski, baritone
Stara niewiasta, Old woman....Oksana Gołombowska, contralto
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus
Violetta Bielecka, chorus director
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Grzegorz Nowak, conductor Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Monteverdi's L'orfeo | 20181115 | | The earliest complete opera that survives to our day, based on an ancient Greek fable. This Baroque jewel is conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón at the helm of a starry young cast & ensemble, with Valerio Contaldo in the title role as the hapless Thracian who fails to bring his dead lover Euridice, the unmistakable voice of soprano Mariana Flores, back from the Underworld, only to be rescued at the end by the gods.
After the opera we return to this week's focus on the endlessly versatile BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Jean-Michel Damase & Ina Boyle.Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Orfeo (Orpheus).... Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Euridice (Eurydice) & La Musica (Music).... Mariana Flores (soprano)
Messaggiera (Messenger).... Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)
Speranza (Hope) / Proserpina (Proserpine).... Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano)
Ninfa (Nymph).... Estelle Lefort (soprano)
Plutone (Pluto).... Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Caronte (Charon).... Salvo Vitale (bass)
Spirito (Spirit) & Eco (Echo).... Nicholas Scott (tenor)
Pastore (A Shepherd).... Leandro Marziotte (countertenor)
Pastore (A Shepherd).... Matteo Bellotto (bass)
Pastore (A Shepherd).... Philippe Favette (bass)
Pastore (A Shepherd) & Apollo.... Alessandro Giangrande (tenor)
Namur Chamber Choir
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor c.3.55pm
Jean-Michel Damase: Sérénade for Flute and String Orchestra
Ransom Wilson, flute
BBC Concert Orchestra
Perry So, conductor c.4.15pm
Ina Boyle: Concerto for violin & orchestra
A Sea Poem: Theme, variations & finale for orchestra
Benjamin Baker, violin
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ronald Corp, conductor Monteverdi's seminal tale of love and death from the Ambronay Festival Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Monteverdi's The Return Of Ulysses | 20210513 | | Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses in a Royal Opera production staged at the Roundhouse in London in 2018. Christian Curnyn conducts the Early Opera Company. In this story based on Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses, sung by Roderick Williams, is returning home to Ithaca after twenty years away at the Trojan War. Penelope, sung by Caitlin Hulcup, is his faithful and patient wife, but her suitors grow in number and in a twist of the drama, she initially rejects her husband, as she doesn't recognise him. Fortunately, Ulysses convinces her of his identity and love, and they're happily reunited. Monteverdi: The Return of Ulysses Ulysses / Human Frailty.... Roderick Williams (Baritone)
Penelope.... Caitlin Hulcup (Mezzo-soprano)
Antinous / Time.... David Shipley (Bass)
Minerva / Fortune.... Catherine Carby (Mezzo-soprano)
Melantho / Love.... Francesca Chiejina (Soprano)
Telemachus.... Samuel Boden (Tenor)
Eurycleia.... Susan Bickley (Mezzo-soprano
Eumaeus.... Mark Milhofer (Tenor)
Irus.... Stuart Jackson (Tenor)
Amphinomus.... Nick Pritchard (Tenor)
Peisander.... Tai Oney (Counter-tenor)
Eurymachus.... Andrew Tortise (Tenor) The Return of Ulysses Community Ensemble
Early Opera Company Orchestra
Christian Curnyn (Conductor). A recording from the Roundhouse in London with Roderick Williams in the title role. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito | 20180628 | | 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:
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - opera seria in two acts, K621 Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà after the libretto of the same name (1734) by Pietro Metastasio Cast: Tito Vespasiano....Russell Thomas (tenor)
Vitellia....Golda Schultz (soprano)
Servilia....Christina Gansch (soprano)
Sesto....Marianne Crebassa (contralto)
Annio....Jeanine De Bique (mezzo-soprano)
Publio....Willard White (bass) musicAeterna choir
Vitaly Polonsky (chorus master)
musicAeterna
Teodor Currentzis (conductor). Tom McKinney introduces a performance from the 2017 Salzburg Festival of Mozart's opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro | 20190502 | | Mozart's perennially popular opera recounts a single "day of madness" in which the schemes of the Count Almaviva to exploit those around him backfire & he repents his devious ways. The servant couple Susanna and Figaro conspire with the forsaken Countess to outwit her husband and teach him a lesson in fidelity until, as if my magic, the opera ends in universal celebration!
Presented by Penny Gore2.00pm
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
The Count Almaviva ….. Simone Alberghini (baritone)
The Countess Almaviva.... Serena Farnocchia (soprano)
Figaro.... Paolo Bordogna (bass)
Susanna.... Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
Cherubino.... Paola Gardina (mezzo-soprano)
Marcellina.... Manuela Custer (soprano)
Bartolo.... Fabrizio Beggi (bass)
Basilio.... Saverio Fiore (tenor)
Don Curzio.... Joshua Sanders (tenor)
Antonio ….. Matteo Peirone (bass)
Barbarina ….. Mariasole Mainini (soprano)
First Girl.... Manuela Giacomini (soprano)
Second Girl ….. Claudia De Pian (mezzo-soprano)
Teatro Regio Chorus
Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin
Speranza Scappucci, conductor
Recorded in July 2018 at the Teatro Regio, Turin Mozart's much-loved comic opera in a performance from the Teatro Regio, Turin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Nino Rota's The Italian Straw Hat | 20190516 | | This afternoon sees 'Godfather' composer Nino Rota in lighter vein with a delightful comic opera recorded last year at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Rota composed this opera, one of ten, in 1945 but it was not produced until ten years later - it's gone on in Italy to be one of best-loved of 20th century operas Set in a madcap Paris, Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze (usually translated as "The Italian Straw Hat") has been described as an extended chase sequence: groom-to-be Fadinard chases around Paris on the day of his wedding day desperately searching for a replacement straw hat after his horse has eaten his. This being an Italian opera buffa, the plot becomes ever more absurd as misunderstandings and mishaps inevitably accrue. Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Rota : Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze Fadinard, a bridegroom.... Piero Adaini, tenor
Elena, Fadinard's bride.... Zuzana Marková, soprano
Nonancourt, Elena's father.... Gianluca Buratto, bass
La Baronessa di Champigny.... Anna Malavasi, mezzo
Beaupertuis.... Bruno de Simone, baritone
Anaide, Beaupertuis' wife.... Anna Maria Sarra, soprano
Emilio, Anaide's lover.... Dario Giorgelè, baritone
Vézinet, Elena's uncle.... Marco Miglietta, tenor
Teatro San Carlo Chorus & Orchestra
Valerio Galli, conductor A delightful comic opera from Godfather composer Nino Rota. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Fadinard, a bridegroom....Piero Adaini, tenor
Elena, Fadinard's bride....Zuzana Marková, soprano
Nonancourt, Elena's father....Gianluca Buratto, bass
La Baronessa di Champigny....Anna Malavasi, mezzo
Beaupertuis....Bruno de Simone, baritone
Anaide, Beaupertuis' wife....Anna Maria Sarra, soprano
Emilio, Anaide's lover....Dario Giorgelè, baritone
Vézinet, Elena's uncle....Marco Miglietta, tenor
Teatro San Carlo Chorus & Orchestra
Valerio Galli, conductor |
| Opera Matinee: Orlando Furioso | 20180712 | | 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
Michela Antenucci - (soprano) Angelica
Lucia Cirillo - (soprano) Alcina
Loriana Castellano - (contralto) Bradamante
Konstantin Derri - (tenor) Medoro
Luigi Schifano - (tenor) Ruggiero
Riccardo Novaro - (bass) Astolfo Orchestra: I Barocchisti
Conductor: Diego Fasolis Synopsis Act 1
In a delightful garden in which two springs are seen, Medoro escapes from a shipwreck into the arms of his beloved Angelica. Alcina magically helps Medoro and he recounts how he was first captured, then shipwrecked. Orlando is jealous of Medoro, but Angelica lies and says Medoro is her brother. 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
In a grove with green secluded spots, Astolfo reflects how he loves Alcina, but is tormented by her unfaithfulness. 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
The place is at the Entrance Hall before the Temple of Hecate. Astolfo believes Orlando dead. With Ruggiero and Bradamante, he plots revenge against Alcina. The secret of Alcina's power lies in an urn, which is locked in the temple of Hecate. They await Alcina's return. 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. Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Peter Heise's The King And The Marshall | 20200312 | | Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Peter Heise's 1850 opera 'Drot og Marsk' is based on the 13th-century true story of the murder of Danish king Eric Glipping. The king is an inveterate womaniser and when he seduces Ingeborg, the wife of Marshal Stig, the marshal organises a conspiracy to kill him. Stig is banished and Ingeborg commits suicide. This version was recorded last May by the Royal Danish Opera Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Michael Schønwandt, accompanying a cast including Peter Lodahl as King Erik, Johann Reuter as Marshall Stig and Sine Bundgaard as Ingeborg. The opera is followed by more from this week's featured performing group - The Ulster Orchestra. Rafael Payare conducts Shostakovich's Festive Overture, which was written to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. They close with Webern's orchestration of Bach's Ricercar from The Musical Offering presented to Frederick the Great in 1747. 2.00pm
Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk (The King and The Marshall" Marshall Stig - Johann Reuter (baritone)
King Erik - Peter Lodahl (tenor)
Rane Johnsen - Gert Henning-Jensen (tenor)
Fru Ingeborg - Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Aase - Sofie Elkjaer Jensen (soprano)
Count Jakob to Halland - Morten Staugaard (actor)
Jens Grand - Simon Duus (bass-baritone)
Herold - Teit Kanstrup (baritone)
Royal Danish Opera Chorus
Royal Danish Opera Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt, conductor 4.40pm
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Bach arr. Webern: Ricercar
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare, conductor Peter Heise's opera based on the true story of the murder of Danish king Eric Glipping. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Tom McKinney. |
| Opera Matinee: Ponchielli's La Gioconda | 20191205 | | Sex and death in Venice - plus the Dance of the Hours for light relief. Canny marketing too - the name La Gioconda is borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Not that Ponchielli's opera has any connection at all with the painting. What it does have is everything you'd expect from a nineteenth-century Italian opera with a text by Verdi's favourite librettist (Arrigo Boito): illicit love, scheming wickedness, witchcraft, spying, disguise, deception, undying loyalty, ultimate tragedy - and great tunes. Presented by Penny Gore. Gioconda, a singer.... Anna Pirozzi (soprano)
Laura Adorno, a Genoese lady.... Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano)
Alvise Badoero, Laura's husband and State Inquisitor.... Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
La Cieca, Gioconda's blind mother.... María José Montiel (contralto)
Enzo Grimaldo, a Genoese prince ….. Brian Jagde (tenor)
Barnaba, spy for the Inquisition ….. Gabriele Viviani (baritone)
Zuàne, a boatman / A Voice ….. Carlos Daza (bass)
Isèpo, a scribe / A Voice ….. Beñat Egiarte (tenor)
A Barnabotto / A Pilot / A Singer ….. Marc Pujol (bass)
Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Guillermo García Calvo Plus an encore from this week's Afternoon Concert featured orchestra:
Bach arr. David Matthews: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor John Storgards Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Puccini Double Bill. | 20180621 | | 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)
Roberto.... Leonardo Caimi (tenor)
Ana.... Carmen Solis (soprano)
RTVE Chorus
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Angel Gómez Martinez (conductor) 3.10: Edgar Edgar.... Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Fidelia.... Carmen Solis (soprano)
Tigrana.... Inés Moraleda (mezzo-soprano)
Franck.... Josep Miquel Ramón (baritone)
Gualtiero.... Carmelo Cordón (bass)
RTVE Chorus
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Angel Gómez Martinez (conductor) 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.
In Edgar, Puccini's second opera, the hero is torn between the sacred love for the pure-hearted Fidelia and the profane love for the wild and feisty Tigrana. His over-complicated love life leads to tragedy. Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee consisting of a Puccini double bill. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico | 20180531 | | 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
Puccini: Il tabarro
Michele, a barge-owner....Wolfgang Koch (baritone)
Luigi, a stevedore....Yonghoon Lee (tenor)
Giorgetta, Michele's wife....Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano) 2.50pm
Puccini: Suor Angelica
Sister Angelica....Ermonela Jaho (soprano)
The Princess, Angelica's aunt....Michaela Schuster (contralto)
The Abbess....Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)
The Monitress....Helena Zubanovich (mezzo-soprano)
The Mistress of the Novices..Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Sister Genovieffa....Anna El-Khashem (soprano)
Sister Osmina....Annette Beck-Schäfer (mezzo-soprano)
Sister Dolcina....Paula Iancic (soprano) 3.40pm
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi....Ambrogio Maestri (baritone)
Lauretta, Schicchi's daughter....Rosa Feola (soprano)
Zita, cousin of Buoso Donati....Michaela Schuster (contralto)
Rinuccio, Zita's nephew....Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Gherardo, Buoso's nephew....Dean Power (tenor)
Nella, Gherardo's wife....Selene Zanetti (soprano)
La Ciesca....Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano) Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Children's Chorus
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko (conductor) We continue this week's survey of recent performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with: 4.35pm
Mark David Boden: Clarinet Concerto (World Premiere)
Robert Plane (clarinet)
BBC NOW
Jac van Steen (conductor). Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico by the Bavarian State Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Puccini's Manon Lescaut | 20200116 | | Today's Opera Matinee was recorded at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest in 2019: Puccini's first great operatic triumph - Manon Lescaut. Manon, who has shown a taste for pleasure, is on her way to a convent on the orders of her parents when she meets the young student Des Grieux. The pair fall in love and elope to Paris, but when the elderly Geronte offers Manon a life of wealth and luxury, her head is turned. Hungarian soprano Gabriella Létay Kiss sings the title role of Manon, with the late Marcello Giordani as Des Grieux and bass András Palerdi as the older, wealthier man, Géronte de Ravoir. Balázs Kocsár conducts the Hungarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra. 2pm
Manon Lescaut, an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini Gabriella Létay Kiss, soprano - Manon Lescaut
Marcello Giordani, tenor - Chevalier des Grieux
Levente Molnár, baritone - Lescaut (Manon's brother, a sergeant)
András Palerdi, bass - Géronte de Ravoir (Treasurer General)
Péter Balczó, tenor - Edmond (a student)
József Mukk, tenor - Lamplighter
András Kiss, bass-baritone - Innkeeper / Naval Captain
Sándor Egri, bass - Sergeant
Melinda Heiter, mezzo-soprano - Musician
László Beöthy-Kiss, tenor - Dancing Master
Hungarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Balázs Kocsár, conductor 4.10pm
Celia Swart: In my web
Herz Ensemble 4.20pm
Bela Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2 Renaud Capuçon, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Péter Eötvös, conductor Presented by Penny Gore Penny Gore introduces Opera Matinee: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Budapest Opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Renaud Capucpon, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Peter Eotvos, conductor Presented by Penny Gore Penny Gore introduces Opera Matinee: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Budapest Opera. |
| Opera Matinee: Rameau's Hippolyte Et Aricie | 20210225 | | Opera Matinee: Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, plus more from New Zealand's top orchestras - music by Debussy, Ethel Smyth and Salina Fisher. Presented by Georgia Mann. Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau's first opera, could equally well have been called Theseus and Phaedra. In this tangled tale from Ancient Greece, the lovers Hippolytus and Aricia struggle against the odds, the gods and Hippolytus's father King Theseus and predatory stepmother Phaedra. There's no happy ending for one couple... but will there be for the other? This stunning production was performed for an online audience at the Opéra Comique in Paris last November. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1757 version)
Hippolytus ….. Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)
Aricia ….. Elsa Benoit (soprano)
Theseus, King of Athens, Hippolyte's father ….. Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Phaedra, Hippolytus's stepmother ….. Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo-soprano)
Oenone, Phaedra's confidante ….. Séraphine Cotrez (mezzo-soprano)
Neptune, Pluto ….. Arnaud Richard (bass-baritone)
Diana.... Eugénie Lefebvre (soprano)
Diana's Priestess, huntress, shepherdess, sailor ….. Léa Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Tisiphone, a Fury.... Edwin Fardini (baritone)
Other roles sung by Constantin Goubet, Arcas Martial Pauliat, Virgile Ancely, Guillaume Gutierrez, Victor Gkoritsas, Yves-Noël Genod, Iliana Belkhadra and Leena Zinsou Bode-Smith
Pygmalion Ensemble and Chorus
Conductor Raphaël Pichon 4.15pm
Ethel Smyth: Overture to 'The Boatswain's Mate'
Auckland Philharmonia
Conductor Tianyi Lu Salina Fisher: Tupaia (world première)
New Zealand SO
Conductor Edo de Waart 4.30pm
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
New Zealand SO
Hamish McKeich Opera Matinee: Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, plus more from New Zealand's top orchestras. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rameau's Les Boreades | 20190523 | | Rameau Les Boréades, opera in five parts
Hannah French introduces this performance of Rameau's last tragédies en musique, recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.Jean Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades, is an appropriate work to play in this week of Afternoon Concerts which feature Radio France's orchestras since it was at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, that the ORTF gave the modern premiere of a version of Rameau's opera in 1964.
Les Boréades (The Descendants of Boreas) explores the idea of mutual love between Alphise, queen of Bactria, and Abaris, a foreigner of unknown origin who has been brought up by the high priest of Apollo. From the romping horns in the prelude through the many ballet scenes to the presentation of a magic arrow by Cupid to Alphise and on to the end, where darkness gives way to light, this is Rameau at his most colourful. The coup de théâtre is perhaps the moment that the arrow is used to quell the rage of the Boreads: they want to be feared but can they be loved? Alphise: Deborah Cachet (soprano)
Sémire, L'Amour, Polimnie: Caroline Weynants (soprano)
Abaris: Juan Sancho (tenor)
Calisis: Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor)
Adamas: Benoit Arnould (baritone)
Borée: Nicolas Brooymans (bass)
Borilée: Tomás Selc (bass)
Apollon: Lukaš Zeman (bass)
Collegium Vocale 1704 and Collegium 1704
Václav Luks (conductor) then at approx 4pm more from this week's featured French orchestras Barber: School for Scandal, op. 5, overture
Orchestre National de France, Lan Shui (conductor) Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 ('The Age of Anxiety'), for piano and orchestra (1965 version)
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor) Rameau's Les Boreades from the Utrecht Early Music Festival, introduced by Hannah French. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rameau's Les Indes Galantes | 20200402 | | Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, an opera-ballet inspired by love in exotic places like Turkey, Peru and Persia, in a recording taken from the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, France, with La Chapelle Harmonique and singers, under the baton of Valentin Tournet. Then, we welcome back the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, to perform Mozart's Symphony No 35 in D major and Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings, conducted by the orchestra's Conductor Emeritus, Donald Runnicles. Presented by Fiona Talkington 2.00pm
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, opera-ballet in one prologue and three acts Emilie, Phani - Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano
Valère, Carlos, Damon - Philippe Talbot, tenor
Bellone, Huascar, Alvar - Luigi de Donato, bass
Osman, Adario - Guillaume Andrieux, baritone
Hébé, Zima - Ana Quintans, soprano
Amour - Julie Roset, soprano
La Chapelle Harmonique Chorus and Orchestra
Valentin Tournet, conductor 3.25pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.35 in D major, K.385
Toru Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor From the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, France. Then Mozart and Takemitsu Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Golden Cockerel | 20171109 | | 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
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel, opera in three acts
[Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, 'Concert Phantasy' by Efrem Zimbalist and 'Hymn to the Sun' by Fritz Kreisler] Tsar Dodon.... Dmitiri Ulyanov (bass)
Tsarevich Gvidon.... Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor)
Tsarevich Afron.... Alexey Lavrov (baritone)
General Polkan.... Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Amelfa, a housekeeper.... Olesya Petrova (contralto)
Astrologer.... Alexander Kravets (tenor altino)
Tsaritsa of Shemakha.... Venera Gimadieva (coloratura soprano)
Little Golden Cockerel.... Sara Blanch (soprano)
Teatro Real Chorus
Teatro Real Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor) 4.15pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 12 in D minor, Op 112 (The Year 1917)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor). Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 with the BBC NOW. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Tsar's Bride | 20210401 | | Penny Gore presents Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011. The Tsar has been looking for a bride, and assembled some 2000 girls for inspection. The one he's taken with is Marfa, but she is already promised in marriage to her childhood sweetheart Ivan. The situation is already complicated enough, but Marfa is also loved by another powerful man, Grigory, who's one of the Tsar's secret police. It's a love triangle that has all the makings of catastrophe. Marfa Sobakina.. Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)
Grigory Gryaznoy.. Johan Reuter (baritone)
Lyubasha.. Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov.. Dmitry Popov (tenor)
Elisa Bomelius.. Vasily Gorshkov (bass)
Vasily Sobakin.. Paata Burchuladze (bass)
Dunyasha Saburova.. Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo-soprano)
Domna Saburova.. Elizabeth Woollett (soprano)
Malyuta-Skuratov.. Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Petrovna.. Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano) Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor.. Sir Mark Elder Sir Mark Elder conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride with Johan Reuter as Grigory Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's Adina | 20190606 | | Elizabeth Alker introduces a new co-production with Wexford Festival Opera of Rossini's one-act comic opera 'Adina', recorded in August 2018 at the Rossini Opera Festival which is held each year in Pesaro, Italy, where Rossini was born. Rossini Adina, comic opera in one act
Librettist: Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini Cast: Adina....Lisette Oropesa (soprano)
Califo....Vito Priante (baritone)
Selimo....Levy Sekgapane (tenor)
Ali....Matteo Macchioni (tenor)
Mustafa....Davide Giangregorio (bass-baritone)
Teatro della Fortuna M. Agostini Chorus
Gioachino Rossini Symphony Orchestra
Diego Matheuz (conductor) Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance from Italy of Rossini's one-act comic opera. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's Barber Of Seville | 20180118 | | 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)
Count Almaviva.... Bogdan Mihai (tenor)
Figaro, the Barber of Seville.... Bruno Taddia (baritone)
Rosina.... Lena Belkina (mezzo-soprano)
Doctor Bartolo, Rosina's guardian.... Bruno de Simone (bass)
Don Basilio, a music teacher.... Marco Spotti (bass)
Berta, Dr Bartolo's servant.... Mary Feminear (mezzo-soprano)
Fiorello, Count Almaviva's servant.... Rodrigo Garcia (baritone)
Ambrogio, Dr Bartolo's servant.... Peter Baekeun Cho (bass)
Officer.... Aleksandar Chaveev (bass)
Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva (Chorus Director Alan Woodbridge)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conductor Jonathan Nott 4.35pm
Matthew Kaner: Encounters (world premiere)
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductor Jeffrey Means 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. Tom McKinney presents Rossini's comic favourite The Barber of Seville. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's Ricciardo E Zoraide From The Rossini Opera Festival | 20181206 | | Opera matinée: marking the 200th anniversary of the première of Rossini's drama Ricciardo e Zoaride, super-star tenor Juan Diego Flórez and the soprano Pretty Yende are the lovers of the title in this Oriental tale of jealousy, disguises and kidnappings, taken from the 2018 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts a wonderful cast accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Ventidio Basso Theatre Chorus, recorded at the Adriatic Arena in August. Presented by Kate Molleson. Zoraide - Pretty Yende (soprano)
Ricciardo - Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Agorante -Sergei Romanovsky (tenor)
Ircano - Nicola Ulivieri (bass)
Zomira - Victoria Yarovaya (mezzo-soprano)
Ernesto - Xabier Anduaga (tenor)
Fatima - Sofia Mchedlishvili (soprano)
Elmira - Martiniana Antonie (mezzo-soprano)
Zamorre - Ruzil Gatin (tenor) Ventidio Basso Theatre Chorus
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor) For full synopsis visit the programme page Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's The Barber Of Seville | 20200709 | | A barber who never cuts any hair and a young woman in lockdown - an opera for our times? Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras A barber who never cuts any hair and a young woman in lockdown - an opera for our times? Georgia Mann presents Rossini's comic masterpiece from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Figaro the barber helps Count Almaviva to spring his rich and sassy lover Rosina from the clutches of her guardian Dr Bartolo - through various implausible disguises and many close shaves. The sheer humour and energy of Rossini's opera soon made it a popular favourite: even Beethoven is supposed to have told Rossini "Be sure to write more Barbers!" But there's an underlying poignancy too - especially if you know Mozart's sequel, The Marriage of Figaro, where Almaviva is already tired of Rosina and chasing Figaro's fiancee Susanna. Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) – comic opera in 2 acts
Figaro, Sevillian barber ….. Vito Priante (bass)
Rosina ….. Daniela Mack (mezzo-soprano)
Count Almaviva ….. Javier Camarena (tenor)
Dr Bartolo.... Jose Fardilha (bass)
Don Basilio, music teacher.... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Berta, Bartolo's housekeeper.... Madeleine Pierard (soprano)
Fiorello, Almaviva's servant ….. Gyula Nagy (baritone)
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Henrik Nanasi |
| Opera Matinee: Rossini's The Siege Of Corinth | 20180705 | | 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)
Mahomet II.... Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Néoclès.... Sergey Romanovsky (tenor)
Cléomène.... John Irvin (tenor)
Adraste.... Xabier Anduaga (tenor)
Hiéros.... Carlo Cigni (bass)
Ismène.... Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano)
Omar.... Iurii Samoilov (tenor)
Ventidio Basso Theatre Chorus
Giovanni Farina (director)
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Roberto Abbado (conductor) 2.00pm
Act 1 3.00pm
Act 2 4.05pm
Act 3. Episode image by Studio Amati Bacciardi Synopsis Act 1
Vestibule of the senate palace at Corinth 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's tent 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
The tombs of Corinth, illuminated by a multitude of fires 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. Rossini's Le si\u00e8ge de Corinthe (Siege of Corinth) from Pesaro. Introduced by Penny Gore. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rossi's L'orfeo | 20181122 | | Following last week's triumph with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, another opera inspired by the same ancient myth of the shepherd who loses his wife Eurydice and goes to the Underworld to fetch her. From the Opera National Bordeaux, in a recording made last year, Luigi Rossi's tragi-comic opera in 3 acts and a prologue, with the soprano Judith van Waroij in the title role.
Presented by Penny GoreOrfeo - Judith van Wanroij (soprano)
Eurydice - Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Aristeo - Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)
Proserpina, Venere - Giulia Semenzato (soprano)
Augure, Pluton - Nahuel di Pierro (bass)
Nutrice, Amore - Ray Chenez (countertenor)
Satiro - Renato Dolcini (baritone)
Vecchia - Dominique Visse (countertenor)
Endimione, Caronte - Victor Torres (baritone)
Momo - Marc Mauillon (tenor)
Apollo - David Tricou (tenor)
The Three Graces - Alicia Amo (soprano), Violaine Le Chenadec (soprano), Floriane Hasler (mezzo-soprano)
The Three Fates - Guillaume Gutiérrez (tenor), Olivier Coiffet (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass-baritone) Pygmalion Ensemble
Raphaël Pichon, conductor Before marrying her love, Orfeo, the beautiful Euridice consults the oracle, who warns them of bad omens surrounding in their futures. Despite the oracle's words, the two lovers move forward with their plans, driven by an unbounded love. Their marriage upsets Venus, who wanted Euridice to marry her protégé Aristeo, and the goddess's anger soon bears fruit: Euridice is bitten by a snake and dies. The desperate Orfeo decides to journey to the Underworld to rescue her. The god of the Underworld agrees to give Euridice back to him, provided that he does not look at her until they reaching the world of the living. Unfortunately, Orfeo cannot control himself... he breaks his promise and turns around to see Euridice, thus losing her for ever. Mad with despair, he dies himself. Following the opera, a recital given recently by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Granados: La maja dolorosa
Antoine: Piano Quartet in B minor, Op. 6
Kelly: Six Songs, Op. 6
Stephan: Groteske
Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows Opera matinee: Rossi's L'Orfeo with the Pygmalion Ensemble under Raphael Pichon Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Rubinstein's The Demon | 20181101 | | A thrilling live recording of Anton Rubinstein's steamy opera The Demon, recorded earlier this year at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, with Egils Siliņš in the title role Poet Milkhail Lermontov's original poem was considered so sacrilegious, it was banned in Russia until nearly twenty years after his death The Demon of the title is a fallen angel, damned to spend eternity alone. When he falls in love with Tamara, who is about to marry Prince Gudal's son, he kills the bridegroom. He tracks Tamara down to a convent and woos her: "Tamara, love me! You will be the queen of the universe, my eternal companion," he whispers into her soul. When Tamara yields and kisses him, her mortal body dies but her eternal soul is saved by the Angel. The Demon is left empty and alone, cursing the universe 2.00pm
Rubinstein
The Demon, opera in three acts Prince Gudal... Alexander Zymbalyuk, bass
Tamara... Asmik Grigorian, soprano
Prince Sinodal... Igor Morosow, baritone
Sinodal's servant... Roman Ialcic, bass
Tamara's nurse... Larisa Kostiuk, mezzo-soprano
Demon... Egils Siliņš, bass-baritone
Courier... Antoni Comas, tenor
Angel... Yuriy Mynenko, countertenor
Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus & Symphony Orchestra
Mikhail Tatarnikov, conductor 4.05pm
Haydn
Symphony no.44 ‘Trauer'
Brahms
Variations on a theme of Haydn
Ulster Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay, conductor Synopsis - The Demon Time: Unspecified
Place: Georgia Act 1
Scene 1 Prologue
During a storm in the Caucasian mountains a chorus of evil spirits call upon the Demon to destroy the beauty of God's creation. The Demon sings of his hatred for the universe and rejects an Angel's plea for him to reconcile with heaven. Scene 2
Tamara, awaiting her wedding with Prince Sinodal, is by a river with her attendants. The Demon sees her and falls in love with her. He promises her that "all the world will kneel before her" if she returns his love. Tamara is fascinated but frightened by him and returns to the castle. Scene 3
Prince Sinodal's caravan is making its way to Prince Gudal's court for his marriage to Tamara but is delayed by a landslide. The Demon appears and vows that Prince Sinodal will never see Tamara again. The carvan is attacked by Tatars, and Prince Sinodal is mortally wounded. Before he dies he tells his servant to bring his body to Tamara. Act 2
Scene 4
The festivities for the wedding have already begun. A messenger announces that Prince Sinodal's caravan has been delayed.[8] Tamara senses the presence of the Demon and is fearful. When Prince Sinodal's body is brought into the castle, Tamara is overcome by grief, but to her horror, keeps hearing the supernatural voice of the Demon and his promises. She begs her father to let her enter a convent. Act 3
Scene 5
The Demon intends to enter the convent where Tamara is now living, believing that his love for her has opened his spirit to goodness. An Angel tries in vain to stop him. Scene 6
Tamara prays in her convent cell but is constantly troubled by thoughts of the Demon, who appears to her in her dreams. The Demon now appears in reality, declares his love for her and begs her to love him in return. Tamara tries to resist her attraction to him but fails. The Demon kisses her in triumph. The Angel suddenly appears and shows her the ghost of Prince Sinodal. In horror, Tamara struggles out of the Demon's arms and falls dead. Epilogue and Apotheosis
The Angel proclaims that Tamara has been redeemed by her suffering, while the Demon is damned to eternal solitude. The Demon curses his fate. In the final Apotheosis Tamara's soul is carried to Heaven accompanied by angels. Egils Silins sings the title role in a live recording of Rubinstein's opera, The Demon. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Salieri's Sparkling Opera La Fiera Di Venezia | 20181220 | | A rare chance to hear one of Salieri's finest and sparkliest operas. La Fiera di Venezia, with an international cast of young singers and crack period instrument group L'Arte del Mondo in a performance recorded in May at this year's Schwetzingen Festival in Germany The beautiful but low-born Falsirena tries ingenious ways of seducing Duke Ostrogoto, despite his engagement to a noblewoman: she poses successively as an unemployed opera singer, a French baroness and a German soap-seller against the background of the dazzling Venetian carnival SALIERI - LA FIERA DI VENEZIA Falsirena....Francesa Lombardi Mazzulli (Soprano)
Grifagno....Furio Zanasi (baritone)
Calloandra....Dilyara Idrisova (soprano)
Ostrogoto....Krystian Adam (tenor)
Christallina....Natalia Rubiś (soprano)
Rasoio....Emanuele d'Aguanno (tenor)
Belfusto.... Giorgio Coaduro (baritone)
L'Arte del Mondo
L'Arte del Mondo Chorus
Werner Erhardt (music director) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Falsirena....Francesa Lombardi Mazzulli (Soprano)
Grifagno....Furio Zanasi (baritone)
Calloandra....Dilyara Idrisova (soprano)
Ostrogoto....Krystian Adam (tenor)
Christallina....Natalia Rubiś (soprano)
Rasoio....Emanuele d'Aguanno (tenor)
Belfusto....Giorgio Coaduro (baritone)
L'Arte del Mondo
L'Arte del Mondo Chorus
Werner Erhardt (music director) |
| Opera Matinee: Stanford's The Veiled Prophet | 20200416 | | Opera Matinee: Charles Villiers Stanford's opera, The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 Wexford Festival. Presented by Georgia Mann Mokanna, The Veiled Prophet: Simon Mechlinski
Zelika, Priestess: Sinéad Campbell-Wallace
Fatima, Chief Slave in the Harem: Mairead Buicke
Azim, a young warrior: Gavan Ring
Abdullah, Mokanna's Slave: John Molloy
The Caliph Mahadi: Thomas D Hopkinson
A Young Watchman: Dominick Felix Orchestra of Wexford Opera
David Brophy, conductor Stanford wrote his romantic opera The Veiled Prophet in 1877, basing it on the 1817 poem "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan" by Thomas Moore. It was first performed in Hanover in 1881, in German. In 1893, it was given a single performance in Italian at Covent Garden, and it had to wait until 2019 to be heard in its original English version at the Wexford Festival. Reviewing the performance, The Daily Telegraph noted: "The Veiled Prophet may be a technically clumsy and naively bombastic affair in the vein of Meyerbeer, but it has heartfelt melodies and youthful ambition that merit an airing."
The opera depicts the tyranny of Mokanna, the hideously disfigured veiled prophet, and his overthrow by the young warrior Azim. The opera ends happily with Azim and his love Zelika united. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Opera Matinee: Stanford - The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 Wexford Festival. Presented by Hannah French |
| Opera Matinee: The Devil On Earth | 20200514 | | |
| Opera Matinee: The Maid Of Pskov | 20190919 | | Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, telling of the brutal reign of Ivan the Terrible, in a performance recorded at the famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow Presented by Hannah French In the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible launched a brutally repressive campaign against the cities of Pskov and Novgorod. Novgorod is soon subdued by the Tzar's unstoppable army, but the future of sister-city Pskov somehow seems to hinge on Princess Olga Tokmanova, a young noblewoman with a mysterious past. Plus more chamber music by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, recorded at last year's Stockholm International Composer Festival. 2.00pm
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid of Pskov
Stanislav Trofimov, bass - Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich ('Ivan The Terrible')
Denis Makarov, bass - Prince Yuri Tokmakov
Ilya Selivanov, tenor - Mikhail
Dinara Alieva, soprano - Princess Olga Tokmakova
Ivan Maximeyko, tenor - Boyar Nikita Matuta
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus & Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev, conductor 4.15pm
Musgrave: Music for Horn and Piano; Narcissus
Markus Maskuniitty, horn
Stefan Lindgren, piano
Anna Riikonen, flute Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, recorded at the famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: The Marriage Of Figaro | 20180920 | | 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
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K.492 Count Almaviva, local nobleman....Christian Gerhaher, bass
Countess Rosina Almaviva....Federica Lombardi, soprano
Cherubino, the Count's page....Solenn' Lavanant-Linke, soprano
Figaro, valet to the Count....Alex Esposito, bass
Susanna, the Countess's maid....Olga Kulchynska, soprano
Bartolo, doctor and lawyer....Paolo Bordogna, bass
Marcellina, Bartolo's housekeeper....Anne Sofie von Otter, soprano
Basilio, music teacher....Manuel Günther, tenor
Don Curzio, judge....Dean Power, tenor
Antonio, the Count's gardener and Susanna's uncle....Milan Siljanov, bass
Barbarina, Antonio's daughter....Anna El-Khashem, soprano
Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Constantinos Carydis, conductor This afternoon's broadcast kicks off a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday features Don Giovanni 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 |
| Opera Matinee: Verdi's Nabucco, From Maribor In Slovenia | 20190404 | | Opera matinée: Verdi's Nabucco at the Maribor Slovene National Theatre. Verdi's third opera is based on the Old Testament story of the plight of the Jews as they are conquered and exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar). This serves as the backdrop for a romantic, tragic story involving Nabucco's daughter Abigaille and Ismaele, nephew of the king of Jerusalem. Stefano Romani conducts a cast led by the baritone Genadij Vaščenko in the title role, the soprano Rebeka Lokar as Abigaille and the tenor Miro Solman as Ismaele. Listen out for wonderful moments for the chorus. Presented by Georgia Mann. Followed by performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra - on tour in Monte Carlo with Bartok's First Violin Concerto - and delightfully witty music for mezzo-soprano and four percussionists by Ligeti. 2pm
Verdi: Nabucco
Nabucco ….. Genadij Vaščenko (baritone)
Abigaille ….. Rebeka Lokar (soprano)
Fenena …. Irena Petkova (mezzo-soprano)
Ismaele ….. Miro Solman (tenor)
Zaccaria ….. Ivan Tomašev (bass)
High priest of Baal …. Marko Mandir (bass)
Abdallo ….. Dušan Topolovec (tenor)
Anna ….. Valentina Čuden (soprano)
SNG Maribor Opera Chorus
SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra
Stefano Romani (conductor) 4.10pm
Bartók: Violin Concerto No 1
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Péter Eötvös (conductor) From the BBC SO's Total Immersion: Ligeti
Ligeti: Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüve
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo)
Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music
Julian Warburton (conductor) Sibelius: Spring Song
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Stefano Romani conducts a Slovenian performance led by Genadij Vascenko and Rebeka Lokar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Verdi's Rigoletto From Stockholm | 20191024 | | Opera Matinée – from the Swedish Royal Opera, Stockholm - Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. Plus Richard Strauss' Burleske for piano and orchestra and Poulenc's Sinfonietta from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Kate Molleson. Verdi's Rigoletto recorded last November at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, with the baritone Karl-Magnus Fredriksson in the title role, soprano Ida Falk Winland as Gilda and tenor Leonardo Capalbo in this tragic tale of love, deceit and revenge. Swedish Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra are conducted by Lionel Bringuier. Following in this week's focus on the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the afternoon continues with a new recording of Richard Strauss's Burleske for piano & orchestra, written when he was just 21. And the programme concludes with a performance of Francis Poulenc's lively and vibrant Sinfonietta, composed in 1947. 2.00pm
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (an opera in three acts) Duke of Mantua – Leonardo Capalbo (tenor)
Rigoletto, the Duke's jester – Akarl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone)
Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter – Ida Falk Winland (soprano)
Sparafucile, an assassin – John Erik Eleby (bass)
Maddalena – Katarina Leoson (mezzo-soprano)
Giovanna, Gilda's nurse - Susann Végh (mezzo-soprano)
Count Monterone - Kristian Flor (baritone)
Marullo – Anton Eriksson (baritone)
Borsa, a courtier – Jihan Shin (tenor)
Count Ceprano – Jens Persson (bass)
Countess Ceprano – Emma Vetter (mezzo-soprano)
A Page – Ella Morin (soprano)
Swedish Royal Opera Chorus
Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier, conductor 4.00pm
Richard Strauss: Burleske for piano & orchestra Michael McHale (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Collins (conductor) 4.20pm
Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrei Feher (conductor) Verdi's Rigoletto from the Swedish Royal Opera, Stockholm. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Arsilda, Regina Di Ponto | 20210211 | | Today's Opera Matinee featuring a Czech production of Vivaldi's Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, composed in the autumn of 1716 for the Venetian theatre of St. Angelo. Vivaldi: Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, RV 700 Lenka Máciková, soprano (Mirinda)
Helena Hozová, soprano (Nicandro)
Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano (Arsilda)
Aneta Petrasová, mezzo-soprano (Lisea)
Kangmin Justin Kim, countertenor (Barzane)
Fernando Guimarães, tenor (Tamese)
Abadie Lisandro, bass (Cisardo)
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, conductor Followed by: Krzysztof Penderecki: Adagio Leoš Janáček: Suite for Strings Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Robert Kružík, conductor Presented by Tom McKinney. Today's Opera Matinee features Arsilda Regina di Ponto, by Vivaldi. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Dorilla In Tempe From Wexford | 20200430 | | Vivaldi's opera Dorilla in Tempe from the 2019 Wexford Festival in Ireland. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Antonio Vivaldi's 1726 opera Dorilla in Tempe is based on themes from Greek myth. The story takes place in Tempe. Like the music, the plot intertwines pastoral and heroic elements and centres on the shepherd Nomio, who is in fact Apollo in disguise. Nomio falls in love with Dorilla, the daughter of Admeto, King of Thessaly, who is herself in love with the shepherd Elmiro. Admeto is forced by the gods to save his kingdom by offering his daughter as a sacrifice to the sea-serpent Pitone, but she is rescued just in time by Nomio. Nomio claims the hand of Dorilla as his reward, but she remains reluctant and escapes with Elmiro. The pair are captured, and Elmiro is sentenced to death. Finally, however, the intervention of Nomio, revealing his divine identity, saves the situation and Dorilla and Elmiro are reunited. This production was recorded last November by the Wexford Festival Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marchiol, accompanying a cast including Manuela Custer as Dorillla, Marco Bussy as Admeto, Véronique Valdès as Nomio and José Maria lo Monaco as Elmiro The opera is followed by more from this week's featured performing group - The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Kodály's Dances of Galánta, which was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society in 1933 and is based on the folk music of the region. 2.00pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe Dorilla - Manuela Custer (soprano)
Admeto, King of Thessaly - Marco Bussy (bass)
Nomio/Apollo - Véronique Valdès (contralto)
Elmiro - José Maria lo Monaco (soprano)
Filindo - Rosa Bove (contralto)
Eudamia - Laura Margaret Smith (mezzo-soprano)
Ninfa - Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)
Ninfa - Lizzie Holmes (soprano)
Pastora - Meriel Cunningham (mezzo-soprano)
Pastora – Emma Lewis (mezzo-soprano)
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Andrea Marchiol, conductor 4.40pm
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor) This production was recorded last November by the Wexford Festival Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marchiol, accompanying a cast including Manuela Custer as Dorillla, Marco Bussy as Admeto, Véronique Valdès as Nomio and José Maria lo Monaco as Elmiro. |
| Opera Matinee: Wagner's The Flying Dutchman | 20190418 | | Our opera matinée is Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, in a concert version recorded recently at the RAI Auditorium in Turin, Italy, with the baritone Tomas Tomasson in the title role, accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Coro Maghini and the Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, under the baton of James Conlon. Presented by Fiona Talkington. 2.00pm / Wagner - The Flying Dutchman, in 3 acts
The Dutchman - Tómas Tómasson, baritone
Daland, a Norwegian sea captain - Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass
Senta, Daland's daughter - Amber Wagner, soprano
Mary, Senta's nurse - Sarah Murphy, mezzo-soprano
Erik, a huntsman - Rodrick Dixon, tenor
Daland's steersman - Matthew Plenk, tenor Coro Maghini
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon, conductor James Conlon conducts a concert version from Turin with Tomas Tomasson in the title role. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Weber's Oberon | 20180503 | | 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.
(Special shout-out to Wagner fans: see if you can spot the bits RW cribbed. It's not a tough assignment: some of them are gobsmackingly obvious...)Presented by Penny Gore Weber: Oberon
Oberon.... Julian Prégardien (tenor)
Titania, Puck.... Alyona Abramowa (mezzo-soprano)
Hüon of Bordeaux.... Brenden Gunnell (tenor)
Rezia.... Annette Dasch (soprano)
Sherasmin, Hüon's squire.... Johannes Kammler (baritone)
Fatime, Reiza's attendant.... Rachael Wilson (mezzo-soprano)
Mermaid.... Anna El-Khashem (mezzo-soprano)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Ivor Bolton. Penny Gore presents a production of Weber's fantasy opera Oberon from Bavarian State Opera Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera Matinee: Zandonai's Francesca Da Rimini | 20190110 | | Riccardo Zandonai's gripping opera Francesca da Rimini from La Scala, Milan, conducted by Fabio Luisi. The opera, based on the play by the controversial Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, is a heady brew of doomed love, lust, jealousy and betrayal, and is Zandonai's best-known and most compelling work Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini....Maria José Siri (Soprano)
Paolo il Bello....Roberto Aronica (Tenor)
Giovanni Lo Sciancato....Gabriele Vivani (Baritone)
Malatestino dall'Occhio....Luciano Ganci (Tenor)
Samaritana....Alisa Kolosova (Mezzo-soprano)
Ostasio....Constantino Finucci (Bass)
Biancafiore....Sara Rossini (Mezzo-soprano)
Garsenda....Valentina Boi (Soprano)
Altichiara....Diana Haller (contralto)
Adonella....Alessia Nadin (Soprano)
Smaragdi....Idunnu Munch (Mezzo-soprano)
Ser toldo Berardengo....Matteo Desole (Tenor)
Il Giullare....Elia Fabbian (Bass)
Il Balestriere....Hun Kim (Tenor)
Il Torrigiano....Lasha Sesitashvili (Baritone)
La Scala Chorus
La Scala Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (Conductor) 4.25pm
As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love 4.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (Conductor) Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera On 3: Agostino Steffani's Niobe | 20210520 | | Thursday afternoons are opera on Radio 3. Tom McKinney presents- Agostino Steffani's Niobe, regina di Tebe A rare chance to hear Agostino Steffani's Niobe, from the Royal Opera House in London. Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, it tells the story of Queen Niobe whose pride insults the Gods. As punishment, her children are killed and in her grief she turns to stone. Veronique Gens sings Niobe, and male soprano Jacek Laszczkowski her husband Anfione, a role originally written for a castrato. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts his own Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, and discusses why Steffani's music, which had such an influence on Handel, deserves to become better known. Anfione.... Jacek Laszczkowski (Soprano)
Niobe.... Veronique Gens (Soprano)
Nerea.... Delphine Galou (Contralto)
Clearte.... Tim Mead (Alto)
Tiberino.... Lothar Odinius (Tenor)
Manto.... Amanda Forsythe (Soprano)
Tiresia.... Bruno Taddia (Baritone)
Poliferno.... Alastair Miles (Bass)
Creonte.... Iestyn Davies (Countertenor) Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor). Our Thursday afternoon opera - Agostino Steffani's Niobe. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Opera On 3: Verdi's Falstaff Starring Bryn Terfel | 20191128 | | Verdi's final opera, Falstaff, in a performance recorded last year at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden starring Bryn Terfel. After a string of successful operatic tragedies and melodramas, Verdi took his final leave of the stage with a quicksilver comedy that casts a wise but wry glance at the foibles of human nature. Falstaff, the fat knight, is full of vanity and self-deceit; but his attempts to seduce the merry wives of Windsor are carried out with such self-aggrandising swagger, confidence and sheer verve that he sweeps all before him. In ripe old age Verdi achieved an Indian summer in which the flow of melody and novel orchestration complemented every twist and turn of Shakespeare's riotous plot. Sir John Falstaff.... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Alice Ford.... Ana María Martinez (soprano)
Ford.... Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Nannetta.... Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Fenton.... Frédéric Antoun (tenor)
Mistress Quickly.... Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Meg Page.... Marie McLaughlin (mezzo-soprano)
Dr Caius.... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Bardolph.... Michael Colvin (tenor)
Pistol.... Craig Colclough (bass-baritone)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Nicola Luisotti (conductor) followed at c.4.25pm by: Bruch Violin Concerto no. 1 in g minor
Fumiaki Miura (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Act I
Dr Caius bursts into Sir John Falstaff's room in the Garter Inn, accusing him of unseemly behaviour the previous night. He further accuses Falstaff's two henchmen, Bardolph and Pistol, of having robbed him while he was drunk. Unable to obtain reparations, Dr Caius leaves in a fury.
Falstaff informs Bardolph and Pistol that in order to repair his finances he plans to seduce Alice Ford and Meg Page, both wives of prosperous Windsor citizens. Alice Ford and Meg Page laugh over the identical love letters they have received from Sir John Falstaff.
Ford arrives and learns of Falstaff's plan to seduce his wife. He immediately becomes jealous. While Alice and Meg plan how to take revenge on their importunate suitor, Ford decides to disguise himself in order to pay a visit to Falstaff. Act II
Feigning penitence, Bardolph and Pistol rejoin Falstaff's service. They show in Mistress Quickly, who informs Falstaff that both Alice and Meg are madly in love with him.
Bardolph now announces that a ‘Mister Brook' (Ford in disguise) wishes to speak to Falstaff. ‘Brook' offers him wine and money if he will seduce Alice Ford, Falstaff agrees to the plan, telling his surprised new friend that he already has a rendezvous with Alice that very afternoon.
As Falstaff leaves to prepare himself, Ford gives way to jealous rage.
Mistress Quickly, Alice and Meg are preparing for Falstaff's visit. Falstaff arrives and begins his seduction of Alice, nostalgically boasting of his aristocratic youth as page to the Duke of Norfolk. But just at that point Mistress Quickly suddenly returns in a panic to inform Alice that Ford really is on his way, and in a jealous temper.
The terrified Falstaff seeks a hiding place, eventually ending up in a large laundry basket. Fenton and Nannetta also hide. Hearing the sound of kissing, Ford is convinced that he has found his wife and her lover Falstaff together, but is furious to discover Nannetta and Fenton instead. To general hilarity, Falstaff is thrown into the River Thames. Act III
A wet and bruised Falstaff laments the wickedness of the world, Mistress Quickly persuades him that Alice was innocent of the unfortunate incident at Ford's house. In a letter which Quickly gives to Falstaff, Alice asks the knight to appear at midnight, disguised as the Black Huntsman.
Ford, Nannetta, Meg and Alice prepare the second part of their plot: Ford secretly promises Caius that he will marry Nannetta that evening. Mistress Quickly overhears them…
As Fenton and Nannetta are reunited, Alice explains her plan to trick Ford into marrying them. On the stroke of midnight, Alice appears. She declares her love for Falstaff, but suddenly runs away, saying that she hears spirits approaching.
Nannetta, disguised as the Queen of the Fairies, summons her followers who attack the terrified Falstaff, pinching and poking him until he promises to give up his dissolute ways. In the midst of the assault Falstaff suddenly recognizes Bardolph, and realizes that he has been tricked. Falstaff accepts that he has been made a figure of fun. Dr Caius now comes forward with a figure in white. When the brides remove their veils it is revealed that Ford has just married Fenton to Nannetta, and Dr Caius to Bardolph! With everyone now laughing at his expense, Ford has no choice but to forgive the lovers, and bless their marriage. Before sitting down to a wedding supper with Sir John Falstaff, the entire company agrees that the whole world may be nothing but a jest filled with jesters, but he who laughs last, laughs best! Verdi's Falstaff in a performance starring Bryn Terfel recorded at the Royal Opera House. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestra Unwrapped | 20200106 | | Presented by Georgia Mann, with this week's featured orchestra the BBC Concert Orchestra. Today, a concert recorded last September at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in which Tom Service and conductor Alice Farnham recreate the spirit of the first performance of Mozart's Paris Symphony with its rowdy audience participation, before considering the line-up and the many cultural functions of a modern day orchestra. After that we'll hear a brand new recording of a late 19th-century Savoy Theatre curtain-raiser, typically performed before the main bill. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Sara Mohr Pietsch introduces a piece of music she loves. Orchestra Unwrapped with Tom Service. Mozart Symphony No.31 ‘Paris' John Williams: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Graham Fitkin: Metal
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (Suite 2, mvt 1)
Hermann: Murder from Psycho
John Williams: Main Theme from Jaws (bb1-29 only)
Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet
Laurie Johnson: Las Vegas (Animal Magic)
Stravinsky: Firebird 1919 version (horn solo to end) BBC Concert Orchestra
Alice Farnham, conductor 3.30pm
Savoy curtain raisers:
Music François Cellier, words Harry Greenbank: Captain Billy Captain Billy, a pirate - Ben McAteer (baritone)
Samuel Chunk, landlord of the Blue Dragon - Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Christopher Jolly - Ed Lyon (tenor)
Widow Jackson - Fiona Kimm (contralto)
Polly, her daughter - Eleanor Dennis (soprano) With Georgia Mann. The BBC Concert Orchestra and the audience are under the spotlight. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestral Tour Of Germany | 20200224 | | Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of recordings from some of the leading German orchestras recorded in halls and cities across the country. She begins today with a concert from Freiberg and another from the capital, Berlin. Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E Serge Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1
(Hilary Hahn - violin) Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) Ravel: Sheherazade
(Marianne Crebassa - Mezzo-soprano) Prokofiev: Selection from 'Romeo and Juliet'
-Montagues and Capulets
-The Young Juliet
-Friar Lawrence
-Dance
-Romeo at Juliet's Before Parting
-Dance of the Antilles Girls
-Romeo at the Grave of Juliet-
-Masks
-Death of Tybalt Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor) Concerts from Freiberg and Berlin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestral Tour Of Germany | 20200225 | | Today's tour of German orchestras and cities begins in Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie performing Shostakovich and Bruckner and moves south to Cologne with the city's WDR Symphony Orchestra playing music by Widmann and Mozart. Introduced by Elizabeth Alker. Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat
(Nicolas Altstaedt - cello) Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat "Romantic" NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) Jorg Widmann: Funeral March for Piano and Orchestra
Luisa Imorde (piano) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Marie Henriette Reinhold (contralto)
Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor)
WDR Chorus
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor) Music from Hamburg and Cologne Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestral Tour Of Germany | 20200228 | | Elizabeth Alker introduces recordings of concerts made by orchestras in Germany including a performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic and Scriabin from Hamburg. Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, dramatic symphony Kate Lindsey (mezzo soprano)
Andrew Sharples (tenor)
Shan Yang (bass-baritone)
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor) Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy NDR Elbphilharmonic Orchestra
George Benjamin (conductor) Music from Berlin and Hamburg Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180709 | | 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.
Including:c14.02 Johann Strauss II: Waltz - The Blue Danube c14.14 Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnol Op.21
(soloist: Renaud Capucon) c14.54 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra c15.35 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand
(piano - Alexandre Tharaud) c16.03 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of performances by the Suisse Romande Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180710 | | Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Dvorak and Strauss.
Including:c14.02 Antonin Dvorak: Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra
(cello - Xavier Phillips) c14.45 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) c15.33 Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
(organ - Vincent Thevenaz ) c15.49 Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra c.16.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
(piano - Sergei Babayan) c16.38 Maurice Ravel: Bolero L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney | 20180711 | | Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recording by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Rossini and Schubert
Including:c14.02 Gioachino Rossini: Overture: La scala di sete (The Silken Ladder) c14.09 Gioachino Rossini (arttributed): Bassoon Concerto
(bassoon - Sergio Azzolini) c 14.36 Franz Schubert: Symphony No 6 in C L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott. Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Our Classical Century: Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue | 20181123 | | In Our Classical Century, a series exploring the most representative and seminal pieces of Classical Music in the last hundred years, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with Marc-André Hamelin on the piano and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Also, William Harris' hymn Bring us, o Lord God, in celebration of the BBC Symphony Chorus' 90th anniversary, which is heard in a recording directed by Neil Ferris. After that, a concert given last month by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London, starting with Beethoven's Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus. Followed by Mason Bates' Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, finishing with another Beethoven masterpiece, his Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' with Jeremy Denk as soloist. The afternoon begins, though, with concert given earlier this year by the BBC Singers at Milton Court, in London, with John Wilson conducting. The programme includes Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year, Richard Rodney Bennett's Sea Change, and Joseph Horovitz's Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. Presented by Penny Gore 14.00
Dove: The Passing of the Year
Bennett: Sea Change
Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo BBC Singers
John Wilson (conductor) 15..20
Our Classical Century
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Marc-André Hamelin, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 15.50
Harris: Bring us, O Lord God BBC Symphony Chorus
Neil Ferris (Chorus Director) 15.58
Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb major, "Emperor" Jeremy Denk (Piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Crisitian Macelaru (Conductor) Our Classical Century: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20200603 | | Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson in Dukas, Barber and Debussy. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson play Dukas, Barber and Debussy, plus Stravinsky's tribute to Debussy, his Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Dukas: Fanfare; La Péri.
Barber: Piano Concerto, op. 38
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Debussy: La Mer
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor |
| Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20191018 | | The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with works by Weber, Richard Strauss, Mussorgsky and Janacek, conducted by Alexander Liebrich. Also from Novák and Suk under Ondrej Lenárd. Presented by Penny Gore. Closing our week of music from the Czech Republic, we hear two concerts given recently by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. First we have the ensemble conducted by Alexander Liebrich in Carl Maria von Weber's overture to his opera Oberon, followed by Richard Strauss' Oboe concerto, with Vilém Veverka as soloist, then Mussorgsky's mighty orchestral poem Night on Bald Mountain, finishing with Janáček's rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba.
Then conductor Ondrej Lenárd takes to the rostrum, with the same ensemble, to perform Novák's 'In the Tatras', describing the mountain range of Eastern Europe, and, closing the concert and this week's Czech performances, Josef Suk's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Asrael', inspired by the Old Testament. 2.00pm
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to 'Oberon'
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Leoš Janáček: Taras Bulba, rhapsody for orchestra Vilém Veverka, oboe
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich, conductor 3.10pm
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) - In the Tatras, op. 26 (V Tatrách, op. 26)
Josef Suk: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 27 ('Asrael') Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenárd, conductor Works by von Weber, Richard Strauss and Janacek with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival | 20190121 | | Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring International Music Festival: the Czech Philharmonic performs Ma Vlast which has opened the Festival every year since 1952 on 12th May, the anniversary of Smetana's death. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Jiří Bělohlávek, long-time President of the Festival.
After the opening concert we'll hear the first of four Bach motets this week, performed by the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner plus Julian Rachlin joins the Prague Symphony Orchestra to play Mendelssohn's perennially popular violin concerto, and Katarina Karnéus sings Wagner's sumptuous Wesendonck Lieder which set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck with whom the composer had fallen in love.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.Smetana: Má vlast
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Tomás Netopil , conductor
Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring Festival, recorded at Smetana Hall c.3.15pm
Bach: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!, BWV 70
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner , conductor
Recorded at Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum c.3.40pm
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in D minor, op. 27 ('Ballade')
Julian Rachlin , violin
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Tomáš Brauner , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall c.4.25pm
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91
Katarina Karnéus , mezzo-soprano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marko Ivanović , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring Festival featuring Ma Vlast by Smetana Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival | 20190122 | | Dvořák's dramatic cantata The Spectre's Bride, a Bach Chorale & the premiere of the suite from West Side Story arranged for piano trio, all performed at the Prague Spring Festival.
The Spectre's Bride was commissioned for the 1885 Birmingham festival but first tried out in the Bohemian city of Pilsen a few months earlier. Based on a poem by Karel Jaromír Erben, about a young girl who is abducted by a ghost she believes to be the spirit of her lover, it is a wonderful example of Dvořák's ability to combine folkloric qualities with brilliant compositional technique – with the added bonus of a solid morality tale. Later in the afternoon we'll hear a concert by the Smetana Trio featuring music by Zemlinsky, Smetana and an arrangement of some very familiar Bernstein.Dvořák: The Spectre's Bride, op. 69
Eva Hornyáková , soprano
Richard Samek , tenor
Adam Plachetka , bass-baritone
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek , choirmaster
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Christian Arming , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall c.3.15pm
Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner , conductor
Recorded at Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum c.3.40pm
Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 3
Bernstein: Suite from 'West Side Story', for piano trio (Premiere)
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 15
Smetana Trio:
Jitka Cechova , piano
Radim Kresta , violin
Jan Páleníček , cello
Recorded at the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, Prague Dvorak's The Spectre's Bride, choral Bach and West Side Story arranged for piano trio Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival | 20190123 | | Leif Ove Andsnes plays Britten's dazzling piano concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under Lionel Bringuier, followed by the vibrant musical colours and exotic scents of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. The concert opens with Arthur Honegger's musical depiction of rugby in his Symphonic Movement. Honegger: Rugby, H. 67
Britten: Piano Concerto, op. 13
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Leif Ove Andsnes , piano
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall Leif Ove Andsnes in Britten's dazzling piano concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival | 20190125 | | The Afternoon starts with the closing concert of the 2018 Prague Spring International Music Festival in which James Judd conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Bohemian programme featuring music by Zdeněk Fibich, Eugen Suchoň & Leoš Janáček. After the concert we'll hear the last of our Bach Cantatas for the week plus Tchaikovsky' proving himself a genius of orchestral colour & Brahms proving his mastery of the large-scale chamber form. Fibich: Comenius, op. 34
Suchon: Žalm zeme podkarpatskej, op. 12
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Jan Vacík, tenor
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
Jozef Chabroň, chorusmaster
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall c.3.15pm
Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner , conductor
Recorded at Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum c.3.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture
Recorded at Smetana Hall
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marko Ivanović , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall c.4pm
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, op. 26
Julian Rachlin , violin
Sarah McElravy , viola
Boris Andrianov , cello
Itamar Golan , piano
Recorded at Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum An all-Bohemian concert featuring music by Zdenek Fibich, Eugen Suchon and Leos Janacek Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival '19 | 20191014 | | From the Prague Spring Festival '19 a concert featuring Mozart's Horn Concerto and Symphony No. 40 in G minor, starting with a piece by the Czech composer Šimon Voseček. Also, staying in the Czech Republic, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major, performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Starting a week with material from the Prague Spring International Festival 2019, plus other material recorded recently in the Czech Republic, today we feature a concert with promising young British conductor Ben Glassberg. He was at the helm of the Prague Philharmonia, as part of the Prague Spring Festival earlier this year to conduct Hypnos, a piece commissioned for the occasion by Czech composer Šimon Voseček. Also in the programme were two works by Mozart, first his Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, with Alexandre Collard as soloist, finishing with his Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
The afternoon continues with a recent concert given by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, with the American John Axelrod conducting Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G, with soprano Chen Reiss as soloist. 2.00pm
Šimon Voseček : Hypnos (premiere of a work commissioned by the Prague Spring)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, K. 417
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 Prague Philharmonia
Alexandre Collard, horn
Ben Glassberg, conductor 3.00pm
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
Chen Reiss, soprano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Axelrod, conductor Music by Vosecek and Mozart with the Prague Philharmonia under Ben Glassberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival '19 | 20191015 | | Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83, from his set of Paris symphonies, as well as his Cello Concerto No. 2, plus Leopold Mozart's Symphony in B major with Les Arts Florissants. Plus Janacek's Sinfonietta and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Continuing with recordings taken at the Prague Spring International Festival earlier this year, today we hear works by Haydn - and a rare symphony by Leopold Mozart - with the specialist period-instrument French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, conducted by its founder William Christie. First comes Symphony No. 83, 'La Poule', 'The Hen', followed by the Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, with soloist Cyril Poulet, then Leopold Mozart's Symphony in B flat, and to finish, a work by Haydn again, his Symphony No. 82, 'The Bear'.
The afternoon finishes with more material recorded recently in the Czech Republic, featuring composers of this land. It's a concert given by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Radek Baborák, starting with Janacek Sinfonietta and finishing with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'. 2.00pm
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 ('La Poule')
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major Hob. VIIb:2
Leopold Mozart: Sinfonia in B flat
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C, Hob. I:82 ('Bear') Cyril Poulet, violoncello
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, conductor 3.40pm
Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World') Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Radek Baborák, conductor Music by Haydn and Leopold Mozart with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prague Spring Festival '19 | 20191016 | | Smetana's Má vlast (My Homeland) with the Bamberg Symphony Ochestra. Presented by Penny Gore. From the Prague Spring Festival '19, Smetana's most famous work: Má vlast (My Homeland) with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, recorded at Smetana Hall in the Czech capital. 2.00pm
Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast (My Homeland) Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor The Bamberg Symphony Ochestra perform Smetana's Ma vlast (My Homeland) under Jakub Hrusa. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 1 Repeat - First Night Of The Bbc Proms | 20170717 | | Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner in music by Tom Coult, Beethoven and also John Adams, as they celebrate the American composer's 70th birthday with his work Harmonium. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London 2.00pm
Tom Coult: St John's Dance
(BBC commission: world premiere) 2.05pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor 2.40pm
John Adams: Harmonium BBC Symphony Orchestra
Igor Levit, piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
Edward Gardner, conductor John Adams's Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. Marking the composer's 70th birthday this year, it features the BBC Proms Youth Choir.
Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven's groundbreaking Third Piano Concerto, and this year's First Night opens with the world premiere of St John's Dance by rising British composer Tom Coult. [First broadcast on Friday 14th July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The First Night of the 2017 Proms, with the BBC SO conducted by Edward Gardner. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 1 Repeat: First Night Of The Proms | 20180716 | | 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
Holst: The Planets c.3.10 pm
Interval: On the opening night of the 2018 BBC Proms, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom. c.3.40 pm
Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams
BBC co-commission with 14-18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival National Youth Choir of Great Britain
BBC Proms Youth Ensemble
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 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. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and massed choral forces conducted by Sakari Oramo. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 1 Repeat: First Night Of The Proms | 20190722 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces, conducted by Karina Canellakis in music by Dvořák, Janáček, and a World Premiere by Zosha Di Castri Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London Zosha Di Castri: Long Is the Journey – Short Is the Memory
(BBC commission: world premiere)
Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel c.2.50pm
Interval: On the opening night of the 2019 BBC Proms, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom. c.3.10pm
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass Asmik Grigorian, soprano
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano
Ladislav Elgr, tenor
Peter Holder, organ
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor The BBC's Our Classical Century series concludes with a new work that marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's mission to the Moon. Janáček's monumental Glagolitic Mass, steeped in Moravian rhythms, is heard alongside Dvořák's fairy-tale tone-poem The Golden Spinning Wheel. Karina Canellakis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and BBC Singers in one of the 20th century's great choral masterpieces. BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces conducted by Karina Canellakis. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 10 Repeat: Aurora Orchestra - Beethoven's 'eroica' | 20170727 | | Another chance to hear Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with the Aurora Orchestra. The concert begins with Strauss's Metamorphosen. Presented by Tom Service from the Royal Albert Hall, London Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.
The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime. First broadcast on Saturday 22nd July Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No 3. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 10 Repeat: Faure, Franck And Widor's Toccata | 20180725 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna making her Proms debut with a programme that includes French 19th- and 20th-century music by Fauré, Franck and Widor. Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London Widor: Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42
Franck: Trois Pièces - Pièce héroïque
Fauré: Pavane (arr. Apkalna)
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals)
Thierry Escaich: Deux Évocations
Aivars Kalejs: Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott' Iveta Apkalna, organ Widor's thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous final-movement Toccata, offers sprawling, extrovert drama, a mood it shares with prize-winning French composer-organist Thierry Escaich's exuberant Évocations, with their nods to Baroque and Renaissance music.
Works by Franck and Bach's great G major Fantasia, with its 'wonderful variations and foreign tones', complete the programme given on the Royal Albert Hall's famous 'Father' Willis organ. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut on the famous organ of the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 11 Repeat: 1969 - The Sound Of A Summer | 20190730 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell, with singers Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle, and the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble. Presented by Lemn Sissay at the Royal Albert Hall, London Joni Mitchell: Woodstock
Walton: Battle of Britain Suite
Bacharach/David: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Fred Neil: Everybody's Talkin' At Me
John Barry: Midnight Cowboy
John Barry: Ski Chase from On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Lennon/McCartney: Get Back
George Harrison: Something
George Harrison: Here Comes The Sun Interval: Proms Plus
Poets Jacob Polley and Rachael Allen read their poetry and respond to themes in the music of tonight's concert. If the summer of 1969 was a time of hedonism and optimistic exploration of space does that echo down the decades? Hosted by New Generation Thinker and author Preti Taneja. Produced by Zahid Warley. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 (1st movt)
Legrand: What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life
Quincy Jones: On Days Like This
Will Gregory: Journey to the Sky
Whitfield/Strong: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Bacharach/David: I Say A Little Prayer Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle (singers)
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell (conductor) Woodstock, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, the ongoing Vietnam War, The Beatles' final album (Abbey Road) – 1969 was a pivotal year. This Prom explores the film and popular music of 1969 to revive the soundtrack of a special summer. The BBC Concert Orchestra under Stephen Bell presents a typically wide-angled view, taking in music inspired by the era-defining Woodstock festival, excerpts from the films Battle of Britain, The Italian Job, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Midnight Cowboy, and ‘Here Comes the Sun' from The Beatles' final album Abbey Road. As the USA's victory in the space race inspired new music to match the emerging digital era, the Moog synthesizer broke into the mainstream with the album Switched-on Bach. A concert evoking the end of the Swinging Sixties, with a cross-generational appeal that offers both a sunburst of nostalgia and iconic revivals. BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell and the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 11 Repeat: Mahler Symphony Of A Thousand | 20180724 | | 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)
Camilla Nylund (soprano)
Joélle Harvey (soprano)
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Claudia Huckle (contralto)
Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Quinn Kelsey (baritone)
Morris Robinson (bass)
Southend Boys' Choir
Southend Girls' Choir
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Chorus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor) '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. BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard in Mahler's dramatic Eighth Symphony Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 12 Repeat: Beethoven, Shostakovich And Rachmaninov | 20180726 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis with cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto. Plus Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances. Presented by Katie Derham from the Royal Albert Hall, London Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Op 107 c. 2.35pm
Proms Plus
Composer Andrew Norman talks to Louise Fryer about his new work 'Spiral' ahead of its UK premiere tonight, and talks about his inspiration and ideas. c. 2.55pm
Andrew Norman: Spiral (UK premiere)
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis (conductor) Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Karina Canellakis and BBC SO in Beethoven, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 12 Repeat: National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain | 20190731 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Mark Wigglesworth and Nicola Benedetti in works by Auerbach, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham Lera Auerbach: Icarus (London premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major c.2.55pm
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - suite (excerpts) Nicola Benedetti (violin)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Explosive energy and enthusiasm are the hallmarks of every performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, made up of the UK's most talented musicians aged from 13 to 18. The ensemble's annual visit to the Proms is always a festival highlight.
This year Mark Wigglesworth conducts the orchestra in a suite from Prokofiev's passionate ballet Romeo and Juliet and they are joined by violinist Nicola Benedetti for Tchaikovsky's warmly lyrical Violin Concerto.
The concert opens with Lera Auerbach's bracing symphonic poem Icarus, inspired by the myth of the heroic but ill-fated son of Daedalus who flew too close to the sun. Works by Auerbach, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 13 Repeat: 'from The Canyons To The Stars...' | 20190801 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, with Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Martin Owen (horn), in Messiaen's Des Canyons aux étoiles... Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Penny Gore Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles … Martin Owen (horn)
David Hockings (percussion)
Alex Neal (percussion)
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) The ‘wild and colourful beauty' of Utah and Arizona was the inspiration for one of the 20th century's most singular and extraordinary works, a musical act of ‘praise and contemplation' painted in the brightest and most vivid of sounds. Olivier Messiaen's mighty Des canyons aux étoiles … (‘From the Canyons to the Stars …') is a sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds, and the rustling of sand. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO, with pianist Nicolas Hodges and horn player Martin Owen taking the demanding solo parts. The BBC SO and Sakari Oramo in Messiaen's Des canyons aux \u00e9toiles... Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 14 Repeat: Bbc Philharmonic Performs Sibelius, Schubert And Zimmermann | 20180727 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards with Elizabeth Watts and Louis Lortie in music by Schubert, Sibelius, Wagner and Zimmermann. Presented by Sarah Walker from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - overture
Schubert orch. Lizst: Die junge Nonne, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Lied der Mignon, Erlkönig
Zimmermann: Symphony in One Movement 2.45
Interval Proms Plus
Lauren Elkin has published a book with the title Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. She talks with New Generation Thinker and wild ice-skater Dr Seán Williams about the joys and difficulties of a wandering life and the inspiration that travel has brought to composers and writers from the 18th century to now. Hosted by Rana Mitter. 3.15
Schubert orch Liszt: Fantasy in C, D760, 'Wanderer'
Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C major Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor) Sibelius's genre-bending Seventh unfolds in a continuous musical gesture of expansive, if characteristically enigmatic, nobility. Centenary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Symphony in One Movement is another assault on tradition that kicks against Wagner's rousing overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Four popular Schubert songs and his formidable 'Wanderer' Fantasy get a colourful orchestral upscaling. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in music by Schubert, Sibelius and Zimmermann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 14 Repeat: Holst - The Planets | 20170802 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Wilson perform Holst's The Planets, with the CBSO Youth Chorus joining for the ethereal ending. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9
Holst: The Planets BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor
CBSO Youth Chorus Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets. [First broadcast on Tuesday 25th July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Ellie Mant. Another chance to hear BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Holst's The Planets. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 14 Repeat: The Creation | 20190802 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Haydn's Creation with the BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber. Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Haydn: The Creation (sung in German): Part 1 c.2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Rev. Lucy Winkett discusses Haydn's setting of the Bible in The Creation Haydn: The Creation: Parts 2 and 3 Sarah-Jane Brandon, soprano
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Christoph Pohl, baritone
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir to perform Haydn's late masterpiece. From its opening Representation of Chaos, through the creation of stars, seas and storms, a magnificent musical sunrise and of course every animal from whales to eagles and even a worm, the Creation is one of the great musical dramas, teeming with life and energy. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Proms Youth Choir. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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 16 Repeat: Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition | 20170728 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp Another chance to hear the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov with Steven Osborne for the world premiere of Julian Anderson's piano concerto, The Imaginary Museum. Presented by Kate Molleson from the Royal Albert Hall, London Liszt: Hamlet
Julian Anderson: Piano Concerto, The Imaginary Museum (world premiere)
Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conductor Ilan Volkov Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC SSO in the world premiere of Julian Anderson's piano concerto. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 16 Repeat: Stravinsky, Debussy And Wagner | 20180731 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder with the Hallé Choir and Youth Choir and soloists Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany in music by Wagner, Debussy and Stravinsky. From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Redmond Wagner: Tannhäuser - overture
Debussy: La damoiselle élue Interval: Proms Plus
An exploration of the relationships between birds and humans with Professor Tim Birkhead and prize-winning author of H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, hosted by New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell. c.2.55
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1945 version) Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Choir (female voices)
Hallé Youth Choir (female voices)
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor) Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue. Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhäuser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city. The second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which the symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird. Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The Halle Choir, Youth Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the 2018 BBC Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 17 Repeat: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - 2 | 20190805 | | Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet‐Séguin playing Sibelius and Richard Strauss and are joined by violinist Gil Shaham in Prokofiev Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London Sibelius:
Symphony No 1 in E minor c.2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus talk: Journalist and string-instrument expert Ariane Todes and Russian music expert and critic David Nice explore Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Russian school of violin-playing. c.3pm
Prokofiev:
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor Richard Strauss:
Der Rosenkavalier – suite The second concert from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood. A passionate champion of new music, Wood gave the UK premieres of many major works featured this season, including both Sibelius's turbulent Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto – played here by Georgian soloist Lisa Batiashvili – whose initial simplicity and directness give way to spiky virtuosity in the finale. The concert closes in Vienna, with the waltz-filled and lushly orchestrated suite from Richard Strauss's popular opera Der Rosenkavalier. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick N\u00e9zet\u2010S\u00e9guin. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 17 Repeat: Parry, Vaughan Williams And Holst | 20180802 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Martyn Brabbins with soloists Francesca Chiejina and Ashley Riches, and violinist Tai Murray. As well as being the composer of that Last Night favourite, Jerusalem, Hubert Parry (died 1918) was in many ways the father of contemporary English music, teaching both Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. This celebration of his legacy features Parry's own hope-filled Fifth Symphony alongside Vaughan Williams' elegiac The Lark Ascending and two memorials inspired by the First World War: Holst's Ode to Death and Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony. Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Parry: Symphony No. 5 in B minor
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending c.2.45pm
Interval: Proms Plus: Melissa Harrison, author of a monthly Nature Notebook in The Times, and farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel contemplate contemporary British landscapes and depicting the challenges of rural life today. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Will Abberley. c.3.10pm
Parry: Hear my words, ye people
Holst: Ode to Death
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) Tai Murray (violin)
Francesca Chiejina (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, at the 2018 BBC Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 18 Repeat: Britten And Mahler | 20190806 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner performing Mahler's Das Lied von Erde; Leif Ove Andsnes joins them in part one for Britten's Piano Concerto. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13
(revised version, 1945) c.2:35
INTERVAL - Proms Plus Talk: Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood's relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. This sweeping orchestral song-cycle is a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill. It's paired with another mould-breaking work Britten's Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 18 Repeat: Currentzis Conducts Beethoven | 20180801 | | 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
MusicAeterna
Conductor Teodor Currentzis 2.30pm
Interval: Proms Plus
Shahidha Bari introduces a series of the best comic readings from literature to tie in with Beethoven's penchant for 'musical jokes'. 2.55pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor
MusicAeterna
Conductor Teodor Currentzis 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. BBC Proms repeat: Teodor Currentzis conducts MusicAeterna in Beethoven Symphonies 2 and 5. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 19 Repeat: Strauss, Schumann And Macmillan | 20190808 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard with pianist Alexander Melnikov. Schumann's Piano Concerto and James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra c.2.35pm
Interval; Proms Plus: Composer Sir James MacMillan, 60 this year, discusses The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and talks about his inspiration and ideas. Recorded earlier at Imperial College Union. Producer Helen Garrison. c.3pm
Part 2
Schumann: Piano Concerto
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Alexander Melnikov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) ‘I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,' wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra. Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss's tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan's early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th-century ‘witch' and premiered at the Proms in 1990. BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Melnikov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 2 Repeat: A Bohemian Rhapsody | 20190723 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša and violinist Joshua Bell in an all-Czech programme of Dvorak and Smetana Presented by Martin Handley at the the Royal Albert Hall, London Dvořák: Violin Concert in A minor c.2.30pm
Interval: Proms Plus: An introduction to Smetana's Má vlast with Czech-born former manager of the BBC World Service, Sir John Tusa, recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union and introduced by Petroc Trelawny. Producer Helen Garrison. c.2.55pm
Smetana: Má vlast Joshua Bell, violin
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor Following his thrilling Proms debut in 2017, Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša returns with two popular masterpieces from his homeland. With its song-like slow movement and irrepressible, folk-infused finale, Dvořák's Violin Concerto is one of the best-loved in the repertoire. American virtuoso Joshua Bell joins the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as soloist. Journey through the Czech countryside in the second half with Smetana's symphonic suite Má vlast (‘My Country') – a colourful celebration of a nation's landscape, castles and warriors, with the sweeping melody of ‘Vltava' at its heart. Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and violinist Joshua Bell. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 2 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim Conducts Sibelius And Elgar | 20170718 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London 2.00pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor c.2.30pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.
He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist. [First broadcast on Sat 15th July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Sibelius and Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 2 Repeat: Ravel | 20180718 | | 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
Presented by Martin Handley Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe BBC Symphony Chorus
City of London Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor You can hear the first half of this repeat of Prom 2 in tomorrow's Afternoon Concert (Thursday 19th July): Faure: Pavane
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
City of London Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor) 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. Schumann: Piano sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 11 played by Francesco Piemontesi. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu perform Ravel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 20 Repeat: Pekka Kuusisto And The Bbc Sso | 20190809 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony performed with special Finish folk music introductions. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Violin Concerto c.2.45pm Interval
Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Brand about the music in this concert. c.3.05pm
Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915) Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Taito Hoffrén (singer)
Ilona Korhonen (singer)
Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer)
Vilma Timonen (kantele)
Timo Alakotila (harmonium)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius's great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony's original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 20 Repeat: Stephen Hough Plays Brahms | 20170801 | | Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, at this year's BBC Proms, with music by Brahms, Haydn and David Sawer.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle
Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Though booed at its premier in 1859, Brahms's First Piano Concerto has gone on to become one of the most-beloved of piano concertos. A giant of a piece with an emotional scope to match, it is at its most tender in the slow movement - a 'gentle portrait' of Clara Schumann. Tempering this intensity is Haydn's graceful Symphony No 99 and David Sawer's 'the greatest happiness principle', with its dancing, rhythmically charged textures. Inspired by Jeremy Bentham's Utopian philosophies, it is performed in this BBC Proms concert as part of the PRS for Music Foundation's Resonate scheme, promoting British music of the past 25 years, in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras and BBC Radio 3. First broadcast on Saturday 29 July Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic with music by Brahms, Haydn and David Sawer. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 21 Repeat: An Alpine Symphony | 20180803 | | 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
GF Haas: Concerto Grosso No 1 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
Strauss: Alpine Symphony Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 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. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov with the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 21 Repeat: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9, 'choral' | 20170803 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, with soloists Erin Wall, Sonia Prina, Simon O'Neil, and Alexander Vinogradov, perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony, under conductor Xian Zhang. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch at the Royal Albert Hall, London James MacMillan: A European Requiem
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, 'Choral' Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
Erin Wall (soprano)
Sonia Prina (mezzo)
Simon O'Neil (tenor)
Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Xian Zhang (conductor) Freedom, hope and brotherhood are the notions that underpin both Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Sir James MacMillan's new choral work A European Requiem - a plea for unity in a troubled world. Xian Zhang and the BBC NOW perform this European premiere. [First broadcast on Sunday, July 30th] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, soloists, with Beethoven 9th Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 21 Repeat: Olivier Latry | 20190807 | | Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear Olivier Latry (organ), with a selection of musical favourites and novelties including works by Bach, de Falla, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Gigout, Khachaturian and Widor. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Aram Khachaturian - Gayane – Sabre Dance (transcr. Kiviniemi)
Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo – Ritual fire dance (transcr. Latry)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Adagio in F major (for mechanical clock)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Eugène Gigout - Air célèbre de la Pentecôte
Franz Liszt (arr. Guillou) - Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH, S 260
Charles‐Marie Widor - Bach's Memento – No. 4: Marche du veilleur de nuit
Camille Saint‐Saëns - Danse macabre (arr. Lemare)
Olivier Latry (organ) Celebrated French organist Olivier Latry returns to the Proms for the first time in over a decade for a programme centred around transcriptions and arrangements for the ‘King of Instruments'. The organist of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla. There's a rhythmic charge to the recital, which includes virtuosic transcriptions of Khachaturian's frenzied Sabre Dance, Falla's hypnotic Ritual Fire Dance and Saint-Saëns's devilish Danse macabre, as well as Bach's dramatic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Bach arrangements by French organist-composers Widor and Gigout. Organist Olivier Latry performs Bach, de Falla, Liszt and Saint-Sa\u00ebns. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 22 Repeat: A London Symphony | 20180806 | | 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
Proms Plus - Novelists John Lanchester and Diana Evans discuss depicting contemporary London in their fiction with presenter Rana Mitter. 2.50pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 'London' Andrew Manze (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 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. BBC SSO and Andrew Manze in perform 'London' symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 22 Repeat: Monteverdi's Vespers | 20170804 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the French baroque ensemble Pygmalion under director Raphaël Pichon perform Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano
Eva Zaïcik, mezzo-soprano
Emiliano Gonzalez ?Toro, tenor
Magnus Staveland, tenor
Virgile Ancely, bass
Renaud Bres, bass
Geoffroy Buffière, bass
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon, director Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought to life in a performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion makes its Proms debut under its director Raphaël Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists. First broadcast on Monday 31st July Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Another chance to hear French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion perform Monteverdi's Vespers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 23 Repeat: Handel - Israel In Egypt | 20170807 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie in Handel's Israel in Egypt, one of the composer's most dramatic oratorios. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London Handel Israel in Egypt (1739 version) Anna Devin, soprano
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone
Callum Thorpe, bass
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
William Christie, conductor Filled with frogs, locusts, hailstones and rivers of blood, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel's most extravagant oratorios and, by placing the chorus in the spotlight, Handel uses the collective voices to tell the story of an entire people. In this performance of the 1739 version, William Christie conducts the period ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, joined by the group's own choir, in the launch of a series of Handel oratorios to be performed over the coming seasons at the Proms. Followed by a selection of recordings from this year's Proms Artists. Producer Peter Thresh. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Handel's Israel in Egypt. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 23 Repeat: Swan Lake | 20190812 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore From the BBC Proms, another chance to hear BBC Philharmonic with Principal Conductor Ben Gernon in Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Sarah Walker Arnold: Peterloo Overture
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini c.2.40pm
Interval:
Proms Plus
In 2017, Sacha Dench of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust flew the 7,000 mile migration route of Whooper Swans from Siberia to the UK in a paraglider. Drawing on her experience, the ‘Human Swan' talks about the birds that have become symbolic of love, beauty, and mystery with dance critic Sarah Crompton, former Arts Editor-in-Chief at The Telegraph. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes. Produced by Torquil MacLeod. c. 3:05
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts) Juan Pérez Floristán (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) The BBC Philharmonic and their Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon open with Malcolm Arnold's Dramatic 'Peterloo Overture' in the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Masacre at St Peter's Fields in Manchester. Excerpts from 'Swan Lake' the first of Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heart-breaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart. Juan Pérez Floristán is soloist in Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini', with its famous lyrical 18th Variation. Another chance to hear BBC Philharmonic with Principal Conductor, Ben Gernon. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 24 Repeat: A Hero's Life | 20180807 | | 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 Müller‐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)
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor c. 2.50pm INTERVAL c. 3.15pm
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Daniel Müller‐Schott (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Otto Tausk (conductor) 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. BBC NOW conducted by Otto Tausk in Strauss, Dvorak and Ethel Smyth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 25 Repeat: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius And Weinberg | 20190813 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6; and cellist Sol Gabetta joins for Weinberg's Cello Concerto. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London Sibelius: Karelia Suite Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Concerto c.2.40pm
Interval:
Proms Plus Talk: Shahidha Bari presents readings of Tchaikovsky's letters, many of which were suppressed because of what they revealed about his sexuality. She is joined by composer Rolf Hind. Recorded earlier at Beit Hall, Imperial College. c.3pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' Sol Gabetta (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor) Dalia Stasevska makes her Proms debut as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor. Cellist Sol Gabetta joins them to celebrate the centenary of one of the 20th century's great unsung heroes, Mieczysław Weinberg, whose Cello Concerto – premiered by Rostropovich in 1957, a decade after it was written – deserves a place alongside those of his great friend and colleague Shostakovich. The programme also includes Tchaikovsky's much-loved ‘Pathétique' Symphony, with its thrilling Scherzo, and Sibelius's suite Karelia a stirring celebration of Finland's proud history. BBC SO, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, with cellist Sol Gabetta. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 26 Repeat: Late Night Serpent And Fire | 20180808 | | 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
The Fairy Queen - Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
Christoph Graupner: Dido, Queen of Carthage, excerpts
Antonio Sartorio: Julius Caesar in Egypt, excerpts
Matthew Locke: The Tempest - Curtain Tune
George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt - 'Che sento? Oh Dio!... Se pietà di me non senti'
Dario Castello: Sonata No. 15 in D minor
Francesco Cavalli: Dido - 'Rè de' Getuli altero... Il mio marito'
Johann Adolf Hasse: Mark Antony and Cleopatra - 'Morte col fiero aspetto'
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8 Anna Prohaska, soprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor 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. Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico in music for Dido and Cleopatra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 26 Repeat: Mozart And Brahms | 20170808 | | Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Paavo Järvi conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Mozart and Brahms, plus the UK premiere of a new work by Erkki-Sven Tüür. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley Erkki-Sven Tüür: Flamma (UK premiere)
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major Vilde Frang, violin
Lawrence Power, viola
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Paavo Järvi, conductor The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo Järvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart's genial Sinfonia concertante.
Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it's a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür's arresting Flamma - a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.
Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms's optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance. [First broadcast on Thursday 3rd August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists. Paavo Jarvi conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Mozart and Brahms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 26 Repeat: Mozart's Requiem | 20190814 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Nathalie Stutzmann with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley perform Mozart's Requiem. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Nicola Heywood Thomas Brahms:
Tragic Overture, Op 81 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WW 90: Prelude and Liebestod Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626 (compl. Süssmayr) Fatma Said (soprano)
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano)
Sunnyboy Dladla (tenor)
David Shipley (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor) Love and loss, life and death collide in an emotionally charged concert given by Nathalie Stutzmann and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. Turbulent shifts of mood characterise Brahms's Tragic Overture, and their ripples continue through the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's powerful operatic exploration of forbidden love, Tristan and Isolde. At the heart of the programme is Mozart's Requiem – the composer's final work, left unfinished at his early death, and his own musical epitaph. Soloists include former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Fatma Said and Kathryn Rudge. The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with Nathalie Stutzmann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 28 Repeat: National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain | 20170809 | | Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is conducted by Thomas Adès in works by himself and Francisco Coll, plus Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Tom Redmond Francisco Coll: Mural
Thomas Adès: Polaris
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Thomas Adès (conductor) Hear some of the UK's finest young musical talent, directed by composer and conductor Thomas Adès, in a bold programme of works that push the orchestra to its technical and sonic limits. Adès's own Polaris, subtitled 'A Voyage for Orchestra', takes inspiration from the North Star, conjuring a vast interstellar landscape that unfolds from a simple piano theme into a massive sonic spiral. Francisco Coll's Mural, tonight receiving its London premiere, is another richly textured, large-scale work - a 'grotesque symphony, in which Dionysus meets Apollo'. The concert's climax is Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring, whose frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies prompted a legendary riot at its Paris premiere. [First broadcast on Saturday 5th August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 28 Repeat: National Youth Orchestra Performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti And Debussy | 20180810 | | 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
George Benjamin: Dance Figures
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Encore:
Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch c.2.50pm
During the interval, Tom Redmond is joined by guests live at the Royal Albert Hall, including members of the National Youth Orchestra c.3.10pm
Ligeti: Lontano
Debussy: La mer Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
George Benjamin (conductor) 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. The National Youth Orchestra under George Benjamin performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 28 Repeat: Rachmaninov, Borodin And Huw Watkins | 20190815 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and the Philharmonia Chorus conducted by Tadaaki Otaka with Natalya Romanov, Oleg Dolgov and Iurii Samoilov. Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas at the Royal Albert Hall, London Takemitsu:
Twill by Twilight Huw Watkins:
The Moon c.2.35pm
Interval:
Proms Plus
The American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a pioneer of Gothic and horror fiction and verse, including ‘The Raven'. His poem The Bells inspired the Rachmaninov piece in tonight's concert. Laura Purcell, author of The Corset and The Silent Companions and Iain Sinclair, whose books include Downriver, join presenter Matthew Sweet. Produced by Torquil MacLeod. c.2.55pm
Rachmaninov:
The Bells, Op. 35 Borodin:
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances Natalya Romanov
Oleg Dolgov
Iurii Samoilov BBC National Chorus of Wales
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka Sleigh bells, wedding bells, warning bells and mourning bells all peal through Rachmaninov's choral symphony The Bells – which sets a text by Edgar Allan Poe with broad brushstrokes and bright colours. Borodin's exotically seductive Polovtsian Dances also features, alongside a world premiere by Huw Watkins inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon. BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with the Philharmonia Chorus and Tadaaki Otaka. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 3 Repeat: Bbc Young Musician 40th Anniversary | 20180717 | | 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
David Bruce: Sidechaining
Steve Reich: Drumming, Part 1
Giovanni Sollima: Violoncelles, vibrez!
Iain Farrington: Gershwinicity 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)
Ravel: Tzigane
James MacMillan: Britannia
Mussorgsky, arr Wood: The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Alexander Bone (alto saxophone)
David Childs (euphonium)
Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone)
Emma Johnson (clarinet)
Alexandra Ridout (trumpet)
Colin Currie (percussion)
Owen Gunnell (percussion)
Adrian Spillett (percussion)
Sam Walton (percussion)
Natalie Clein (cello)
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Guy Johnston (cello)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Martin James Bartlett (piano)
Freddy Kempf (piano)
Lara Melda (piano)
Lauren Zhang (piano) 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. Past winners and finalists celebrate 40 years of BBC Young Musician. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 3 Repeat: Bernard Haitink Conducts Mozart And Schumann | 20170720 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington Another chance to hear Bernard Haitink conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in symphonies by Mozart & Schumann. Isabelle Faust joins them for Mozart's Violin Concerto in G K216. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London 2pm
Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504
c.2.30pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216
c.2.55pm:
Schumann: Symphony no.2 in C major Isabelle Faust (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
conductor Bernard Haitink The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes. Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3. [First broadcast on Sunday 16th July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra or Europe in music by Mozart and Schumann. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 30 Repeat: Walton - Belshazzar's Feast | 20170810 | | Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy
Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast David Butt Philip, tenor
James Rutherford, baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Prokofiev's revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven is played for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton's choral spectacular Belshazzar's Feast. [First broadcast on Monday 7th August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists. Producer Clive Portbury. Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 31 Repeat: Bernstein, Gershwin And Ives | 20180815 | | 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
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
2.40pm
Ives: Symphony No. 2 Inon Barnatan, piano
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor 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. Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 31 Repeat: Brahms, Bruckner And Strauss And The Anvil By Emily Howard | 20190816 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the Philharmonia with Lise Davidsen and Esa-Pekka Salonen, in music by Brahms, Strauss and Bruckner Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale Strauss: Four Songs, Op. 27 c.2.45pm: Interval: Proms Plus Talk: William Mival considers Bruckner's symphonic techniques c.3.05pm: Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major 'Romantic'
(1878–80 version, ed. Nowak) Lise Davidsen, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner's ‘Romantic' Symphony at its heart. Soprano Lise Davidsen joins them for a sequence of Strauss songs including the ecstatic ‘Morgen!'. c.4.15pm Emily Howard: The Anvil
Text by Michael Symmons Roberts
(BBC / Manchester International Festival commission - world premiere) Kate Royal (soprano)
Christopher Purves (baritone)
BBC Singers
Halle Choir
Halle Youth Choir
Halle Ancoats Community Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor) Two hundred years ago today more than 60,000 people travelled from all over the North West of England to St. Peter's Square just a couple of hundred yards from where the Bridgewater Hall stands today. They came united in their wish for the right to vote. As speeches began troops, some on horse-back descended on the crowd killing 15 people and injuring more than 600. The Peterloo Massacre as it became known was a pivotal moment in Britain's road to democracy. The Anvil was Commissioned by Manchester International Festival and the BBC to commemorate the events of the day and performed at this year's Manchester International Festival, at the Bridgewater Hall, as part of a day of performance, music and poetry. The Philharmonia with Lisa Davidsen and Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 32 Repeat: Britten, Brian Elias, Purcell And Elgar | 20170811 | | Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Henry Waddington perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London, by Petroc Trelawny Britten: Ballad of Heroes
Brian Elias: Cello Concerto
Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt
Elgar: Enigma Variations BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Henry Waddington (bass)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.
The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'. [First broadcast on Wednesday 9th August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists Producer Clive Portbury. BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 33 Repeat: Brahms's A German Requiem | 20180813 | | 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
Interval: Proms Plus:
Presenter Ian Skelly introduces Brahms' 'A German Requiem', together with Reverend Lucy Winkett. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union. c.2.45
Brahms: A German Requiem Golda Schultz (soprano)
Johan Reuter (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor) 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. 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 |
| Prom 33 Repeat: Mahler, Schubert And Glanert | 20190819 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Detlev Glanert, Schubert, and Mahler's Symphony No.4, with soprano Christina Gansch. Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London Detlev Glanert: Weites Land ('Musik mit Brahms' for orchestra)
UK premiere Franz Schubert: Einsamkeit for soprano and orchestra (orch. D. Glanert) c.2:35pm INTERVAL - Proms Plus
Before the Mahler symphony which includes a song presenting a child's view of heaven - this discussion hears about children's concepts of innocence and experience New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher and Patrice Lawrence, award winning writer of the young adult novel Orangeboy. Presented by New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen. Produced by Jacqueline Smith. c. 3:00pm Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major Christina Gansch (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor) Semyon Bychkov traces the evolution and genealogy of Austro-German music in a fascinating Prom featuring three works from three different centuries. Schubert's influence on Mahler is clear from the weary loveliness and fretful anxiety of Einsamkeit (‘Loneliness'), heard here in an elegant orchestration by contemporary composer Detlev Glanert. Mahler's Fourth Symphony, bright with sleigh bells and innocent wonder, glances back to Classical models from the vantage point of fin-de-siècle Vienna, while Glanert takes Brahms's Fourth Symphony into the 21st century in his lyrical Weites Land (‘Open Land'). Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with soprano Christina Gansch. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 34 Repeat: Bbc Philharmonic And Juanjo Mena Perform Britten And Copland | 20180814 | | 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'
Copland: Connotations
Britten: Les illuminations c. 2.50
Interval: Proms Plus
Film-maker and biographer Humphrey Burton and Britten scholar Heather Wiebe explore Aaron Copland's influence on Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein and Britten's relationship with America, in conversation with Louise Fryer. Recorded earlier today at the Imperial College Union. c. 3.10
Barber: Antony and Cleopatra - Two scenes
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' Sally Matthews (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) 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. BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena in Britten and Copland from the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 34 Repeat: West-eastern Divan Orchestra | 20190820 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French. Another chance to hear the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra with conductor Daniel Barenboim and pianist Martha Argerich in Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Lutosławski Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor c.3pm
interval c.3.20pm
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra Martha Argerich (piano)
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms with a programme of emotion and sensation. Legendary Argentine pianist Martha Argerich is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 – an outpouring of Romantic intensity sustained from the arresting opening chords right through to the thrilling finale. Polish folk dances pulse through Lutosławski's vibrant Concerto for Orchestra, with its echoes of Stravinsky and Bartok. Its bracing rhythmic energy and reticent beauty offer the perfect foil to the melodic richness of Tchaikovsky's concerto. Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition. Daniel Barenboim is joined by Martha Argerich in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 35 Repeat: Enigma Variations | 20190822 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French. Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrates conductor Martyn Brabbins's 60th birthday today in music by Vaughan Williams, Brahms and Elgar's Enigma variations. Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.
(BBC commission: world premiere)
Theme (Anon.)
Var. 1: (Dai Fujikura)
Var. 2: (David Sawer)
Var. 3: (Sally Beamish)
Var. 4: (Colin Matthews)
Var. 5: (Iris ter Schiphorst)
Var. 6: (Brett Dean)
Var. 7: (Wim Henderickx)
Var. 8: (Richard Blackford)
Var. 9: (Harrison Birtwistle)
Var. 10: Sixty Salutations (Judith Weir)
Var. 11: (Gavin Bryars)
Var. 12: (Kalevi Aho)
Var. 13: (Anthony Payne)
Var. 14: Finale: The Art of Beginning (John Pickard) Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music c.2.50pm
Interval: Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris and scholar Kate Kennedy explore the connections between Brahms, Elgar and Vaughan Williams, composers featured in this concert. c.3.20pm
Brahms: Song of Destiny
Elgar: Enigma Variations Nadine Benjamin, soprano
Idunnu Münch, mezzo-soprano
William Morgan, tenor
David Ireland, bass-baritone
English National Opera Chorus
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor Elgar's ‘Enigma' Variations is the inspiration for a new work commissioned from 14 living composers as a special birthday tribute to conductor Martyn Brabbins, who turns 60 today. Elgar's original set also features, as do Vaughan Williams's exquisite Serenade to Music and Brahms's ‘Little Requiem', the Song of Destiny. Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition Daniel Liu and Will Harmer. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 36 Repeat: Mahler, Wagner And Webern | 20180816 | | 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
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 10 - Adagio c. 2.30
Interval: Proms Plus
Stephen Fry and John Deathridge introduce Wagner's 'Die Walküre'. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union. c. 2.50
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde
Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Siegmund
Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Hunding
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor 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. Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen in Webern, Mahler and Wagner, Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 36 Repeat: Schubert And Mahler | 20170814 | | Afternoon on 3 with Catriona Young Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, perform works by Schubert and Mahler. Presented at the Royal Albert Hall, London by Ian Skelly Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'
Mahler: Symphony No.10, compl. Deryck Cooke BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, offer two contrasting answers to the problem of performing unfinished symphonies. Although Schubert started work on his Eighth Symphony nearly six years before his death, he never completed it and the two existing movements of this lyrical, proto-Romantic work are mostly performed without a scherzo or finale. Mahler's final symphony grapples with darkness and doubt in music of rare anguish and intensity. It is presented here in the performing version by Deryck Cooke, which allows us to hear the work complete, in all its knotty, generous invention. [First broadcast on Saturday 12th August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists. The BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard play music by Schubert and Mahler at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 37 Repeat: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3 | 20170815 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young. Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform music by Rachmaninov. Presented by Kate Molleson from the Royal Albert Hall, London Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor 2.40pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)
Latvian Radio Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conductor Thomas Dausgaard In this all-Rachmaninov Prom, prize-winning pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk makes his Proms debut in the composer's demanding Third Piano Concerto, while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra steps into the spotlight for the mercurial Second Symphony, with its hauntingly beautiful Adagio and impassioned finale. The Latvian Radio Choir complements each work with Russian Orthodox chant, illuminating these blazing orchestral works with the hypnotic sound-world that seeped into Rachmaninov's works. [First heard on 13 August 2017] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform music by Rachmaninov Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 37 Repeat: The Childhood Of Christ | 20190823 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French. Another chance to hear Maxime Pascal conduct the Hallé, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Genesis Sixteen and a starry solo quartet, Julie Boulianne, Allan Clayton, Roderick Williams and Neal Davies. Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall. Hector Berlioz: The Childhood of Christ Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Neal Davies (bass)
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Genesis Sixteen
Hallé
Maxime Pascal (conductor) Maxime Pascal and the Hallé continue our series marking 150 years since the death of Hector Berlioz with the composer's vividly dramatic oratorio The Childhood of Christ. Simple and often disarmingly direct, with emotions that unfold in some of the composer's most beautiful melodies (including the much-loved ‘Shepherds' Farewell'), the oratorio follows the Holy Family as they flee from Bethlehem into Egypt, where they find safety and welcome. Proms Plus: Inspired by Berlioz's trickery, Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom explore the long tradition of literary hoaxes, with readings from some of the most creative and audacious examples. Producer Ciaran Bermingham. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Maxime Pascal conducts the Hall\u00e9 and a starry line up of soloists. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 38 Repeat: Solomon's Knot | 20190821 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French Another chance to hear Solomon's Knot makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme. Presented by Hannah French at the Royal Albert Hall, London. JS Bach:
Cantata No. 19 'Es erhub sich ein Streit', BWV 19
Cantata No. 130 'Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir', BWV 130
Cantata No. 149, 'Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg', BWV 149
Cantata No. 50, 'Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft', BWV 50 Performing with small forces and without a conductor, Baroque-music collective Solomon's Knot brings a contemporary clarity and freshness to all its performances. The ensemble makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme of cantatas composed for the Feast of St Michael – the saint who, appropriately, protects against the evils of darkness and night. The programme includes the richly scored cantatas Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir and Es erhub sich ein Streit, as well as the dramatic Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, with its glorious chorale finale. Solomon's Knot makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme at the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 39 Repeat: Debussy, Ravel And Mark-anthony Turnage | 20170817 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazushi Ono - Ravel's Piano Concerto with soloist Inon Barnatan, and Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hibiki with children's choirs. Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 2.10pm:
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major 2.35pm:
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki (European premiere) Inon Barnatan (piano)
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo)
New London Children's Choir
Finchley Children's Music Group
Kazushi Ono (conductor) Sunlight and sensitivity dominate Debussy's ravishing Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. The cooler shades of jazz shoot through Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hibiki (Japanese for "beautiful sound") makes reference to the earthquake and devastating tsunami which struck north-east Japan in 2011. A children's chorus and settings of Japanese poetry for soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists create a sequence of threnodies offering solace after loss. This is the European premiere. [First heard on 14 August 2017] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazushi Ono in Ravel and Turnage at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 4 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim And Staatskapelle Berlin | 20170719 | | Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform the UK premiere of Birtwistle's Deep Time, followed by Elgar's Second Symphony. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London. 2.00pm
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time
(BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere) 2.27pm
Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien. [First broadcast on Sunday 16th July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Birtwistle and Elgar. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 4 Repeat: Shostakovich's 'leningrad' Symphony | 20180719 | | 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
Interval: Proms Plus: An introduction to Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony with musicologist, presenter and writer Anastasia Belina. c.2.50pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' Mark Simpson (clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) 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
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
City of London Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor) 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. The BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena and Mark Simpson in Shostakovich and Lindberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 4 Repeat: The Planets | 20190724 | | Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits play Holst's The Planets and before that music by John Adams and Barber's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto
Gustav Holst: The Planets Nemanja Radulović, violin
Trinity Boys Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor A concert of 20th-century classics from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues the 50th anniversary celebrations of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Space travel has never been more richly imagined than in Holst's suite The Planets, but in order to
get there you'll need to take a Short Ride in a Fast Machine, courtesy of John Adams's exhilarating, propulsive Minimalist masterpiece. The lyrical beauty of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, with its exquisite slow movement, offers a contrasting moment of contemplation. Dynamic Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović makes his Proms debut as soloist. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits and Nemanja Radulovi\u0107 Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 40 Repeat: Brahms, Berg, Larcher And Schumann | 20170818 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young. Another chance to hear the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati in Schumann and Thomas Larcher, and with Christian Tetzlaff in Berg's Violin Concerto. Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Brahms: Tragic Overture
Berg: Violin Concerto
Thomas Larcher: Nocturne - Insomnia (UK premiere)
Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Rhenish' Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor) Brahms's Tragic Overture is not so much tragic as a 'serious' follow-up to his more frivolous Academic Festival Overture.
Dedicated 'To the memory of an angel', Berg's luminous Violin Concerto is an intensely moving personal testament to the death of a young woman, quoting Bach's funeral chorale 'Es ist genug'.
Thomas Larcher's nocturnal wanderings receive their UK premiere before a joyous journey down the Rhine in Schumann's Third Symphony, which climaxes in a musical homage to Cologne Cathedral. [First heard on 15 August 2017] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schumann and Thomas Larcher at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 40 Repeat: Joshua Bell And The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields. | 20180817 | | 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
Saint‐Saëns: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor 2.45pm: Interval
Proms Plus - Marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, historians Saul David and Laura Rowe discuss the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and the effect that this terrible tragedy had on American public opinion about the conflict. Presented by New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri. 3.05pm:
Bridge: Lament
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, director/violin 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. 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 |
| Prom 40 Repeat: Queen Victoria's 200th Anniversary | 20190826 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear Stephen Hough join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Ádám Fischer, then accompany Alessandro Fisher to celebrate Queen Victoria's birth. Presented by Hannah French at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Part 1
Sullivan: Victoria and Merrie England - ballet suite No 1
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25 c.2:45pm
Interval - Proms Plus
With Queen Victoria's piano centre-stage in this concert, historians Lee Jackson and Kathryn Hughes discuss what kept Her Majesty's subjects amused indoors and outdoors. Lee Jackson is the author of Palaces of Pleasure. Kathryn Hughes has written about George Eliot, Mrs Beeton, and Victorians Undone: Tales of Flesh in the Age of Decorum. Hosted by Rana Mitter. Produced by Fiona McLean. c.3:05pm Part 2
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Gruss aus der Ferne; Standchen; Gruss an den Bruder; Aus Wilhelm Meister; Lebewohl
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (Scottish) Stephen Hough (piano)
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Ádám Fischer (conductor) The Proms celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth with a glimpse into the monarch's musical life. The programme features music by her favourite composer, Mendelssohn, including his lively ‘Scottish' Symphony and First Piano Concerto, performed by Stephen Hough on Victoria's own piano, loaned by HM The Queen from the Royal Collection. The concert also includes a suite from Arthur Sullivan's ballet Victoria and Merrie England, composed to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, as well as songs by Prince Albert. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, \u00c1d\u00e1m Fischer and Stephen Hough. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 41 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts Elgar And Vaughan Williams | 20180822 | | 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
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op 85 2.45pm
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem Alexandre Duhamel (baritone)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor) 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. BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Edward Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 41 Repeat: Rimsky-korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov And Glazunov | 20190827 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore The London Philharmonic and pianist Alexander Ghindin, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, play music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov and Glazunov. Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada – suite
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor (original version, 1891)
Interval
Lyadov: Baba-Yaga; Kikimora; From the Apocalypse
Glazunov: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Alexander Ghindin, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto is the centrepiece of an all-Russian programme by Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO, which also includes the dance-filled suite from Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada and Glazunov's big-hearted Fifth Symphony. Another chance to hear The London Philharmonic, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 42 Repeat: Clara Schumann Piano Concerto | 20190829 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore The Ulster Orchestra with Rafael Payare and Mariam Batsashvili in works by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Sofia Gubaidulina and Shostakovich. Presented by Hannah French from the Royal Albert Hall, London Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor Mariam Batsashvili (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor) Belfast's Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic music director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, performed here by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili.
Begun when the then Clara Wieck was just 13 years old, it's a work whose mellow mood and lyrical melodies conceal no little technical intricacy and formal innovation.
Sunny good humour also runs through both Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 – famously described as a musical ‘comedy of manners' – and Shostakovich's First Symphony, lively with satirical wit and mischief. The Ulster Orchestra and Rafael Payare with pianist Mariam Batsashvili at the BBC Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 42 Repeat: Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi And Khatia Buniatishvili In Sibelius, Part And Grieg | 20180820 | | 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
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor c. 3.35
Interval: Proms Plus. Presenter Ian Skelly introduces Sibelius' 5th Symphony together with Radio 3's New Generation Thinker, Leah Broad. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union. c. 3.55
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major 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. The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Jarvi perform Sibelius, Part and Grieg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 42 Repeat: Les Siecles And Francois-xavier Roth | 20170821 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore Another chance to hear selection of French music with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, featuring pianist Cédric Tiberghien. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London 2pm
Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune - overture 2.10pm
Delibes: Lakmé - ballet music 2.15pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian' 2.50pm
Franck Les Djinns 3.00pm
Lalo: Namouna - Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (excerpts) 3.20pm
Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah - Bacchanal Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth (conductor) The hugely acclaimed period instruments of Les Siècles return to the Proms this year with Cédric Tiberghien as the soloist in Saint-Saens' Egyptian Concerto.
This all-French programme, inspired by the East, also features the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakmé, the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, and the adventures of Lalo's Namouna. Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 August Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Samuel Hickling. Another chance to hear French music at the Proms with Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 43 Repeat: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony | 20190830 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sakari Oramo in Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Plus world premieres of works by Dieter Ammann and Jonathan Dove Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London Jonathan Dove: We Are One Fire
BBC commission: world premiere Dieter Ammann: Piano Concerto
BBC co-commission with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Wien, Lucerne Festival, Münchner Philharmoniker and Taipei Symphony Orchestra, supported by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council: world premiere c.2.35pm Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Sean Williams introduces readings from the works of Friedrich Schiller. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral'(70 mins) Anu Komsi (soprano)
Hilary Summers (contralto)
Michael Weinius (tenor)
Mika Kares (bass)
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Neil Ferris (conductor)
Sakari Oramo (conductor) Sakari Oramo conducts the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony – Finnish soprano Anu Komsi leads an international cast of soloists. It is paired with two world premieres: a new choral work by Jonathan Dove and a much-anticipated Piano Concerto by Swiss composer Dieter Ammann, performed by his compatriot Andreas Haefliger. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Another chance to hear Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 43 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim And The West-eastern Divan Orchestra | 20180821 | | 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
Interval Proms Plus: BBC New Generation Thinkers Jules Evans and Hetta Howes compare figures from the past and present who have searched for a sense of transcendence and experienced ecstatic states. Hosted by Christopher Harding. 3pm
David Robert Coleman: Looking for Palestine
London premiere Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy Elsa Dreisig, soprano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor 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. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim play Tchaikovsky, Coleman and Scriabin Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 43 Repeat: Saint-saens - 'organ' Symphony | 20170822 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the RPO and conductor Charles Dutoit perform music by Falla, Lalo and Saint-Saëns's 'Organ' Symphony. With Joshua Bell, Cameron Carpenter and Stéphanie d'Oustrac. Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London Manual de Falla El amor brujo 2.25pm:
Édouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op 21 3pm:
Saint ?Saëns: Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ' Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano)
Joshua Bell (violin)
Cameron Carpenter (organ)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor) Tonight's celebration of the sun-scorched landscapes of Spain opens with Falla's flamenco ballet El amor brujo, rich in Andalusian folk melodies and featuring the famous 'Ritual Fire Dance'.
Joshua Bell is the soloist in Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, whose title conceals a virtuosic violin concerto steeped in the sounds of Spain, while Cameron Carpenter takes to the organ console in Saint-Saëns's mighty 'Organ' Symphony. 'With it I have given all I could,' observed the composer. 'What I did I could not achieve again.' [First heard on 17 August 2017] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Anthony Sellors. The RPO and conductor Charles Dutoit perform music by Falla, Lalo and Saint-Saens. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 44 Repeat: Cbso And Ludovic Morlot Perform Debussy, Ravel And Boulanger | 20180823 | | 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
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130 'Du fond de l'abîme' 2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus
An introduction to the music and life of Lili Boulanger, with Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter, presented by Andrew McGregor. 3pm
Debussy: Nocturnes
Ravel: Boléro Justina Gringytė, mezzo-soprano
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor 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. 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 |
| Prom 45 Repeat: Jonathan Nott And The Orchestre De La Suisse Romande | 20180829 | | 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
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz) (UK premiere of this orchestration)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911) Renaud Capuçon, violin
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott, conductor 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. Jonathan Nott conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 45 Repeat: Mahler - 'resurrection' Symphony | 20170824 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear Mahler's Symphony No.2 'Resurrection'. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO, BBC Symphony Chorus, and Bach Choir with soprano Elizabeth Watts and mezzo Elisabeth Kulman. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London Mahler: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo)
The Bach Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) In this season's second Mahler symphony, the composer wrestles with the essential questions of humanity in a work that took over six years to complete. Faith, mortality and the hope of resurrection are the subject of this epic musical exploration, which culminates in a glowing, transcendent choral finale. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo are joined by soloists Elizabeth Watts and Elisabeth Kulman as well as the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus and The Bach Choir for a work whose scale and scope come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Graham Rogers. The BBC SO, BBC Symphony Chorus and Bach Choir in Mahler's Symphony No 2. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 46 Repeat: City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | 20190902 | | Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson, Another chance to hear the CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla perform music by Weinberg, Howell and Knussen, and are joined by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Elgar's cello concerto. Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London Dorothy Howell:
Lamia
(Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1919) Elgar:
Cello Concerto in E minor Encore: Weinberg: prelude from 24 Preludes Op.100 for solo cello c.2.45pm:
Interval: An exploration of the life and work of Mieczysław Weinberg with musicologist and broadcaster Erik Levi. c.3.05pm:
Knussen:
The Way to Castle Yonder Weinberg:
Symphony No. 3
(London premiere) Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor The CBSO and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla celebrate the centenary of Mieczysław Weinberg the man Shostakovich hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding composers' of his day – with a rare performance of his Symphony No. 3, a work that combines folk melodies and dances with confessional urgency. That intensity is shared by Elgar's passionate Cello Concerto, performed here by 2016 BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The concert opens with Dorothy Howell's radiant tone-poem Lamia (first performed, like Elgar's concerto, 100 years ago) and also includes The Way to Castle Yonder, a suite from the much-missed Oliver Knussen's opera Higglety Pigglety Pop! CBSO and Mirga Gra\u017einyt\u0117-Tyla with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 46 Repeat: Schoenberg - Gurrelieder | 20170825 | | Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, with the London Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall. 2.00pm
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Tove: Eva-Maria Westbroek
Waldemar: Simon O'Neill
Wood-Dove: Karen Cargill
Klaus the Fool: Peter Hoare
Peasant: Christopher Purves
Speaker: Thomas Quasthoff CBSO Chorus
Orfeó Català
London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Gurrelieder is Schoenberg's Tristan and Isolde, an opulent, late-Romantic giant. The LSO and Sir Simon Rattle are joined by an outstanding line-up of soloists, including soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Simon O'Neill as lovers Tove and Waldemar. [First broadcast on Saturday, August 19th] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 47 Repeat: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | 20190903 | | Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig with Andris Nelsons and Michael Schönheit in works by JS Bach and Bruckner. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London JS Bach:
Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542
Cantata No. 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 – Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' (transcr. Schmidt-Mannheim)
Prelude in E flat major, BWV 552
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645
Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 c. 2.45pm:
Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Petroc Trelawny talks to Stephen Johnson about the relationship between music and architecture. Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak) Michael Schönheit (organ)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons (conductor) The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra returns to the Proms for the first time under new Music Director Andris Nelsons. At the heart of their programme is Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 – a work as vast in scope as size, a mighty orchestral monologue whose monumental finale the composer considered ‘the most significant movement of my life'. Before the broad unfolding of Bruckner, Michael Schonheit presents the meticulous detail of Bach in a series of solo organ works including the lovely chorale ‘Wachet auf'. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Andris Nelsons and Michael Sch\u00f6nheit. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev And Venables | 20180827 | | 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
Philip Venables/Bartók: Venables Plays Bartók (BBC Commission World Premiere)
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat major, Op 100 Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 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'. Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform works by Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 48 Repeat: A Patchwork Passion | 20170823 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC Singers with Chief Conductor Designate Sofi Jeannin and the City of London Sinfonia in Passiontide music from the last five centuries. Together they tell the familiar Passion story as you've never heard it before, moving from the earliest-known responsorial setting by Johann Walter (1496-1570) through Passion music by Schütz, Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and Stainer, right up to contemporary settings by Sofia Gubaidulina and Sir James MacMillan. Thomas Elwin (tenor)
Oliver Johnston (tenor)
David Shipley (bass)
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Producer Janet Tuppen. BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia and Sofi Jeannin in A Patchwork Passion at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 48 Repeat: London Symphony Orchestra And Simon Rattle Play Ravel | 20180828 | | 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)
Ravel: Shéhérazade
with Magdalena Kožená (mezzo soprano) 2.50pm
Interval: Proms Plus:
Composer Kerry Andrew has published her first novel Swansong and she performs many traditional songs. She talks to writer Katherine Langrish, author of Seven Miles of Steel Thistles and a “Troll Trilogy” about the cultural legacy of fairy tales and the lessons we can learn from them. Presented by Rana Mitter. 3.10pm
Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges
Magdalena Kožená (Child)
Patricia Bardon (Mother/Shepherd/Dragonfly)
Jane Archibald (Fire/Nightingale/Princess)
Anna Stéphany (Chair/White Cat/Chinese Cup/Squirrel)
Elizabeth Watts (Shepherdess/Bat/Owl)
Sunnyboy Dladla (Teapot/Little Old Man/Tree-Frog)
Gavan Ring (Grandfather Clock/Black Cat)
David Shipley (Tree/Armchair)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sir Simon Rattle 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. 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 |
| Prom 48 Repeat: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev And Silvestri | 20190905 | | Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson. Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. Rachmaninov's mighty Symphony No. 2 plus Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London Constantin Silvestri: Three Pieces for strings
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor c.2.40pm
Interval: An exploration of the Russian symphonic tradition, with musicologist Geoffrey Norris. Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru (conductor) Tracing a thrilling journey from doubt to triumph, Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 sits at the centre of this concert from a brooding opening it moves through a lovely slow movement to an ecstatic close – one of the most exciting in the repertoire. Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru makes his Proms debut with the BBC SO. There's more drama and still greater virtuosity in Prokofiev's demanding Piano Concerto No. 2, performed here by 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho. The concert opens with the folk-inspired Three Pieces for strings by the Romanian composer-conductor Constantin Silvestri, who defected to the West in 1956 and died in London 50 years ago. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC SO, conducted by Cristian M\u0103celaru, with pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 49 Repeat: European Union Youth Orchestra | 20180830 | | 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)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor 2.45pm
Interval: PRS Foundation's ‘Keychange'
This year, music festivals around Europe signed up to a scheme designed ‘to transform the music industry for current and future generations'. With the help of artistic administrators and musicians, including members of the EUYO and composer Agata Zubel, Hannah Conway explores the PRS Foundation's ‘Keychange', an initiative which seeks to redress male dominance in music. 3.05pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
European Union Youth Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) 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. Gianandrea Noseda and the European Union Youth Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Zubel Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 5 Repeat: Sibelius, Rachmaninov And Shostakovich | 20170721 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard with Behzod Abduraimov. Symphonies from Sibelius and Shostakovich alongside Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Sara Mohr-Pietsch 2.00pm:
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 2.25pm:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor 3.00pm:
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Thomas Søndergård (conductor) Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC NOW in Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 50 Repeat: Beethoven, Stravinsky And Gerald Barry | 20170828 | | Afternoon on 3 with Jonathan Swain The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with works by Stravinsky and Gerald Barry. Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London Beethoven: Overture 'Leonore' No.3
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major
Gerald Barry: Canada (BBC commission, world premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of political and artistic freedom. Beethoven's Leonore overture No. 3, written for his rescue opera Fidelio, celebrates the triumph of truth over tyranny in music of radiant beauty, while his Fifth Symphony rewrites the rules for the Classical symphony. In his new work, maverick composer Gerald Barry is inspired by revolutionary events in Canada's history, also setting the text from Fidelio's Prisoners' Chorus; and violinist Leila Josefowicz amps up the drama in the fierce brilliance of Stravinsky's neo-Classical concerto. Followed by music from this week's Proms Artists. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 50 Repeat: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto And Mahler's Symphony No 5 | 20180831 | | 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
with Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) 2.30pm
Interval: Proms Plus
Writer and critic Norman Lebrecht investigates Leonard Bernstein's relationship with the music of Mahler. 2.50pm
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) 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. BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and Annelien Van Wauwe perform Mozart and Mahler Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 50: Orchestre De Paris | 20190904 | | Another chance to hear Daniel Harding conducting the Orchestre de Paris in Schumann, Widmann and Beethoven 2.00pm Robert Schumann: Genoveva – overture Jörg Widmann: Babylon Suite
London premiere c. 2.40pm:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral' Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Harding, conductor Another chance to hear Orchestre de Paris from 2019's Proms Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 51 Repeat: Sibelius, Saint-saens And Elgar-payne | 20170829 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Sibelius, Elgar's Symphony No.3 (completed by Anthony Payne), and Saint-Saëns's Second Piano Concerto with Javier Perianes.Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London Sibelius: Scènes historiques, Suite No. 1
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor
Elgar/Payne: Symphony No.3 Javier Perianes (piano)
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra This year's Elgar cycle concludes with the originally unfinished Third Symphony. The concert also features the vivid, descriptive miniatures of Sibelius's Scènes historiques and Saint-Saëns's brilliantly youthful Second Piano Concerto. Followed by music from this week's Proms Artists. The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius and Elgar's Symphony No 3 at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 52 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts The Bergen Philharmonic In Sibelius And Wagner | 20180903 | | 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
Rolf Wallin: Violin Concerto (world premiere) 2.35pm
Interval: Proms Plus
Composer Rolf Wallin talks about the influences and ideas that went into the making of his Violin Concerto. 2.55pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major Alina Ibragimova, violin
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor 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.
Violinist Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin's concerto – the second of two new violin concertos premiered this season (see also Prom 47).
And the evening opens with Wagner's propulsive overture to The Flying Dutchman, an opera set along the coast of Norway from the orchestra's base in Bergen. Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Wagner and a Wallin world premiere Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 52 Repeat: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky And Ryan Wigglesworth | 20190906 | | Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson Another chance to hear the Britten Sinfonia with Marc-André Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth, playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall. Mozart: Concerto in E flat major for two pianos Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4, 'Mozartiana'
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1897 c.2.45pm: Interval: Musicologist Jonathan Cross introduces Stravinsky's Divertimento: The Fairy's Kiss. c.3.05pm:
Ryan Wigglesworth: Piano Concerto
BBC co-commission with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: world premiere Stravinsky: Divertimento 'The Fairy's Kiss' Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Britten Sinfonia
Ryan Wigglesworth, piano and conductor Arranging four pieces by Mozart in his Suite No. 4, Tchaikovsky pays homage to the composer he regarded as a ‘divinity'.
Tchaikovsky himself was the inspiration for Stravinsky's ballet The Fairy's Kiss, shot through with Tchaikovsky's melodies.
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth also features as both pianist – alongside Marc-André Hamelin in Mozart's Concerto for two pianos – and composer, with the world premiere of his own Piano Concerto. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists. The Britten Sinfonia with Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 54 Repeat: Ive1n Fischer And The Budapest Festival Orchestra Perform Enescu, Bartok And Mahler | 20180904 | | 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
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta 2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus.
An introduction to Mahler's 4th Symphony with musicologist Jeremy Barham and lecturer Laura Tunbridge. Presented by Martin Handley. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union. 3pm
Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major Anna Lucia Richter, soprano
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor 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. Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mahler and Bartok. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 54 Repeat: Orchestra Of La Scala, Milan, And Riccardo Chailly | 20170831 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann. Another chance to hear the Filarmonica della Scala with conductor Riccardo Chailly, joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos, in Brahms's Violin Concerto, followed by music by Respighi. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major
Respighi: Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly, conductor Riccardo Chailly returns to the Proms, this time as Music Director of the Filarmonica della Scala (Orchestra of La Scala, Milan), which makes its Proms debut. They bring with them a little piece of Italy in two of Respighi's Rome-inspired tone-poems. Richly vivid in orchestral colour, these works delight in the kind of huge sonorities that come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall. The concert opens with one of the great violin concertos - Brahms's joyous, virtuosic musical homage to his friend and mentor, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim. [First broadcast on Friday, August 25th] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 55 Repeat: Ive1n Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra Perform Brahms, Liszt And Sarasate | 20180906 | | 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
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 in B flat major
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 11 in C minor 2.45pm
Interval: Proms Plus
An introduction to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller culture and heritage with writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas. Presented by New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau. 3.05pm
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor József Lendvay Sr and József Lendvay Jr (violins),
Jenő Lisztes (cimbalom),
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor) 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.
This concert – a true celebration of Hungary's national music – traces the development of folk songs and dance, from their colourful, rough-hewn originals into virtuosic concert-hall reimaginings by Liszt, Brahms and Sarasate.
In the second half comes Brahms's dramatic First Symphony, whose darkness and drama eventually give way to an ending of transcendent musical triumph. Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Hungarian dances and folk tunes. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 56 Repeat: Henry Wood Tribute | 20190909 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Ireland: Piano Concerto 2.45pm: Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Petroc Trelawny considers the legacy of Sir Henry Wood, and talks to some of the performers in this Prom. Dobrinka Tabakova: Timber & Steel
Debussy, orch Wood: La cathédrale engloutie
Granados, orch Wood: Spanish Dance ‘Andaluza'
Wagner, orch Wood: Traume for violin and orchestra
Grainger, orch Wood: Handel in the Strand
Ravel: La Valse Leon McCawley (piano)
Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey A 150th-anniversary tribute to Henry Wood, founder-conductor of the Proms, featuring works he premiered and arranged, and reflecting his wide musical tastes, from Wagner to John Ireland, Ravel to Percy Grainger. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey and pianist Leon McCawley at the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 56 Repeat: Mozart And Bruckner | 20180907 | | 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
with Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) 2.30pm
Interval: Proms Plus
Conductor and musicologist John Butt introduces Bruckner's Symphony No 5. 2.50pm
Bruckner: Symphony No 5 in B flat major BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 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. 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 |
| Prom 57 Repeat: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra | 20190911 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, play music by Qigang Chen, Mozart and Rachmaninov at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Qigang Chen: Wu Xing (The Five Elements)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances Eric Lu, piano
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu, conductor China's Shanghai Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with an East-meets-West concert including music by Qigang Chen and Rachmaninov's exhilarating Symphonic Dances. Leeds Piano Competition winner Eric Lu joins them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's Proms debut. Music by Qigang Chen, Mozart and Rachmaninov. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 58 Repeat: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra And Louis Langree | 20170901 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Louis Langrée perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley 2pm
Bernstein: On the Waterfront - symphonic suite
Copland: Lincoln Portrait c.2.40
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langrée, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein's symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man's heroic fight against corruption and intimidation. In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland's Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln's greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music. The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. [First broadcast on Sunday 27th August] Followed by a selection of music by this week's Proms artists. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 58 Repeat: Tchaikovsky, Jane1\u010dek, Szymanowski And Linda Catlin Smith | 20190910 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov with soprano Georgia Jarman perform Szymanowski's Love Songs of Hafiz alongside a new work by Linda Catlin Smith. Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Linda Catlin Smith - Nuages
Janáček - The Fiddler's Child
Szymanowski - Love Songs of Hafiz, Op. 26 c.2:45pm
Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett about Tchaikovsky and the Russian folk tradition. c.3:05pm
Part 2
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 2 in C minor, 'Little Russian' Georgia Jarman (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) Folk songs and folk tales run through this programme from the BBC SSO and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov. A runaway success at its premiere, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as the theme for each of its four movements, including the dizzyingly inventive finale, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janáček's atmospheric orchestral ballad The Fiddler's Child. Szymanowski's exotic songs based on texts by the 14th-century Persian mystic poet Hafiz and a world premiere by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith complete the concert. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov and soprano Georgia Jarman. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 6 Repeat: An American In Paris And Turangalila | 20180720 | | 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
In the centenary year of Leonard Bernstein's birth, the first in a series of talks exploring his life and work. Presenter Petroc Trelawny discusses Bernstein's legacy and his championship of contemporary music with conductor and keyboard player Wayne Marshall and Nigel Simeone, editor of 'The Leonard Bernstein Letters'. c. 2.35pm
Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony Angela Hewitt (piano)
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 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. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 6 Repeat: The Rite Of Spring | 20190725 | | Afternoon Concert with Hannah French Another chance to hear Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School with Edward Gardner and James Ehnes in works by Stravinsky, Britten and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Ian Skelly Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos
(UK premiere) Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto c. 2:55 Interval
Proms Plus Talk: In the first of a series of talks focusing on Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, musicologist and broadcaster Hannah French explores his relationship with the Royal Academy of Music. c. 3:20
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring James Ehnes (violin)
Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School
Edward Gardner (conductor) Earthy, pagan dances meet the Music of the Spheres in this concert of 20th- and 21st-century orchestral works. Stravinsky's infamous ballet score The Rite of Spring pulses with rhythmic energy and urgency, while Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's luminous and intricately textured Metacosmos travels deep into space. At the centre of the programme is Britten's elegiac Violin Concerto, written on the cusp of the Second World War. Violinist James Ehnes joins Edward Gardner and musicians from both London's Royal Academy of Music and New York's Juilliard School. Edward Gardner conducts Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 60 Repeat: Vienna Philharmonic And Bernard Haitink | 20190912 | | Presented by Penny Gore Another chance to hear The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto and Bruckner's 7th Symphony presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley. 2.00pm Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major c. 2.35pm - interval Martin Handley talks to tonight's conductor Bernard Haitink about his life and career. c. 2.55 pm Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major (ed. Nowak) Emmanuel Ax piano
Vienna Philharmonic
Bernard Haitink conductor In a year that marks both his 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut, Bernard Haitink conducts the first of the Vienna Philharmonic's two concerts this season. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven's revolutionary Piano Concerto No. 4 – written by the composer as his own farewell to the performing stage. A farewell of a different kind runs through Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Completed shortly after Wagner's death, the work's heartfelt slow movement, with its poignant closing elegy, pays homage to the man and mentor Bruckner described as his ‘dearly beloved Master'. Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and Emanuel Ax. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 61 Repeat: Renee Fleming Sings Strauss | 20170904 | | Another chance to hear Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Plus Nielsen's Symphony No 2. With Katie Derham. From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria UK premiere
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24
Strauss: Daphne - Transformation Scene, 'Ich komme - ich komme'
Nielsen: Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments' Renée Fleming, soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor Star American soprano Renée Fleming returns to join Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the shimmering 'transformation' music that closes Richard Strauss's opera Daphne, and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic portrait of the America of a simpler age.
The RSPO also brings music by its Swedish compatriot Andrea Tarrodi - Liguria, a vivid musical 'walking tour' through Italian fishing villages as well as Nielsen's Second Symphony, 'The Four Temperaments', whose four movements offer different character portraits, from a choleric opening Allegro to a melancholic slow movement. Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 61 Repeat: Vienna Philharmonic And Andres Orozco-estrada | 20190913 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Andrés Orozco‐Estrada in Dvorak's New World Symphony and Leonidas Kavakos in Korngold's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall. Dvořák: The Noonday Witch
Korngold: Violin Concerto c.2:45pm INTERVAL: Musicologist Ben Winters discusses Korngold and America. c.3:05pm
Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Vienna Philharmonic, Andrés Orozco‐Estrada (conductor) Dvořák's ‘New World' Symphony, with its wistful slow movement, is the centrepiece of the second concert from the Vienna Philharmonic – a programme of Central European works that showcases the orchestra's distinctively rich sound. Andrés Orozco-Estrada pairs it with the composer's colourful, folk-infused tone poem The Noonday Witch, in which a mother's threats inadvertently summon a witch into her home. Cinematic drama is also a hallmark of Korngold's richly orchestrated and unashamedly romantic Violin Concerto, performed here by soloist Leonidas Kavakos. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Vienna Philharmonic, Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada and violinist Leonidas Kavakos. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 63 Repeat: Taneyev, Rachmaninov And Tchaikovsky | 20170905 | | Afternoon on 3 with Katie Derham Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Kirill Gerstein joins them for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1 From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore Taneyev: Overture - The Oresteia
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor) Continuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer's vividly programmatic symphony Manfred. Translating the struggles of Byron's hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour. Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer's piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev's brooding Oresteia overture. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 64 Repeat: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra And Daniele Gatti | 20170906 | | Afternoon on 3 with Katie Derham Another chance to hear the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Daniele Gatti perform music by Wolfgang Rihm and Bruckner's 9th Symphony at the Proms Rihm: In-Schrift
Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor Amsterdam's mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is regularly named as one of the world's finest orchestras. Here it returns to the Proms for the first time in almost a decade, under its new Chief Conductor Daniele Gatti. The main work on their programme is Bruckner's Ninth Symphony - the composer's great, unfinished farewell to the form, and his final testament of faith. Written in 1995 for St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Rihm's In-Schrift is an exploration of space and its sonic possibilities. With no high strings and additional low brass, Rihm creates a sound-world of striking darkness, illuminated only by the piercing brilliance of percussion. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Bruckner's 9th Symphony at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 64 Repeat: Verdi Requiem | 20180905 | | 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
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov, tenor
Tomasz Konieczny, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrés Orozco‐Estrada, conductor 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 mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly. Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the London Philharmonic in Verdi's Requiem. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 68 Repeat: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky And Shostakovich | 20170908 | | Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the Mariinsky Orchestra play Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall Prokofiev: Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op 74
Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto no.3 in E flat major
Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor Denis Matsuev, piano
Mariinsky Chorus
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor Who better than Russia's foremost opera orchestra and chorus to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution? Along with Artistic Director Valery Gergiev they perform Prokofiev's epic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution - a work that captures the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union in bold orchestral textures and rich, folk-infused choral writing.
The cruelty of the Stalinist regime is captured in Shostakovich's evocative Fifth Symphony, and regular collaborator Denis Matsuev joins the orchestra as soloist in Tchaikovsky's final work - the single-movement Piano Concerto No. 3. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. The Mariinsky Orchestra play Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 7 Repeat: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique | 20170724 | | Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Weilerstein perform Rebel, Berlioz and the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Outscape at this year's BBC Proms.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall, London.Jean-Féry Rebel: Le Chaos from "Les Elémens"
Pascal Dusapin: Outscape* (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 Alisa Weilerstein (cello)*
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor) Visions of chaos give way to a diabolical scene in a musical thrill-ride that takes us from creation itself to the wild dances of a Witches' Sabbath. Jean-Féry Rebel's suite The Elements is one of Baroque music's most unusual works, opening with a vivid portrait of Chaos. The same audacity surfaces a century later in Berlioz's quasi-autobiographical Symphonie fantastique, whose large orchestral forces and colourful textures make it a perfect fit for the Royal Albert Hall. Star cellist Alisa Weilerstein is soloist for the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's nature-inspired concerto Outscape - a work written for her - while her brother, rising young star Joshua Weilerstein, conducts. First broadcast on Wednesday 19 July Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Samuel Hickling. Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rebel, Dusapin and Berlioz. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 7 Repeat: Schumann, Schoenberg And Mozart | 20190726 | | Afternoon concert with Hannah French. Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber in music by Ben Haim, Schumann and Schoenberg. They are joined by Yeol Eum Son for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 15. Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London Mozart: Piano Concerto No.15(K450)
Ben-Haim: Symphony No.1 c.3pm
Interval: Proms Plus: Can music heal the mind and body? Music in hospitals used to be heard only in lifts or on patients' headphones. Now, the NHS is using music therapy in innovative clinical programmes. New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt discusses her award winning research with a fellow researcher. Chaired by actor, musician and New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton. Producer Luke Mulhall Schoenberg: Five Pieces Op.16
Schumann: Symphony No.4 Yeol Eum Son (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) Omer Meir Wellber makes his Proms debut as the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins them as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.15 (K450) with its intricate wind writing and lively hunting-horn finale. Schumann's mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, with its opening journey from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg's revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces and Paul Ben-Haim's 1940 Symphony No.1 - an emotive musical statement at a time of international conflict. BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber and Yeol Eum Son. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 9 Repeat: Beethoven - Fidelio | 20170725 | | Afternoon on 3 with Verity Sharp Another chance to hear Juanjo Mena conduct Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' with a cast led by Stuart Skelton and Ricarda Merbeth. Presented by Donald Macleod at the Royal Albert Hall, London Beethoven: Fidelio
Stuart Skelton, tenor (Florestan)
Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Leonore)
James Cresswell, bass (Rocco)
Louise Alder, soprano (Marzelline)
Benjamin Hulett, tenor (Jaquino)
Detlef Roth, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro)
David Soar, bass (Don Fernando)
Andrew Masterson, tenor (First Prisoner)
Tomothy Bagley, bass-baritone (Second Prisoner) Orfeón Donostiarra
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor) The first of three politically charged stage works this season is Beethoven's only opera, 'Fidelio' - a passionate musical protest against political oppression, first performed in Vienna in the wake of the French Revolution to an audience mostly consisting of Napoleon's troops. At its heart is the stirring "Prisoners' Chorus", a poignant hymn to freedom and the power of the human spirit. The BBC Philharmonic brings its highly acclaimed performance to the Proms with a cast starring Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as the imprisoned Florestan, and soprano Ricarda Merbeth as his faithful and resourceful wife Leonore. [First broadcast on Friday 21st August] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Juanjo Mena conducts Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' with a cast led by Stuart Skelton. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 9 Repeat: Strauss, Brahms And Brostrf6m | 20190729 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Markus Stenz with Jeroen Berwaerts and Håkan Hardenberger in a new double trumpet concerto by Tobias Broström. Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas at the Royal Albert Hall, London R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Tobias Broström: Nigredo: Dark Night of the Soul (concerto for two trumpets and orchestra) c.2.50pm Interval - Proms Plus Talk:
An introduction to the music in tonight's Prom with researcher, writer and presenter Katy Hamilton. Presented by Flora Willson at the Imperial College Union. Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet)
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Markus Stenz (concductor) The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Eulenspiegel – Germany's beloved folk-hero – introduce a concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra. Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in its first concert of the season, pairing Strauss's lively tone-poem with Brahms's turbulent Symphony No. 1 – the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven'. Trumpeters Håkan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by Swedish composer Tobias Broström. Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz, Jeroen Berwaerts and H\u00e5kan Hardenberger. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom 9 Repeat: World Orchestra For Peace | 20180723 | | 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)
Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem c2.50pm Interval: Proms Plus
The Narrative Voice: Dr Sarah Dillon is joined by the novelist Richard Beard, whose memoir The Day That Went Missing was published to great acclaim last year. They'll be discussing the literary voice: first, third or rarely seen second person narrators, comic narrators and slippery unreliable narrators. Illustrated with a selection of readings, Sarah and Richard will investigate some of the best voices in fiction. The reader is Fenella Woolgar. c3.10pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral' Erin Wall (soprano)
Judit Kutasi (mezzo-soprano)
Russell Thomas (tenor)
Franz-Josef Selig (baritone)
BBC Proms Youth Choir
World Orchestra for Peace
Simon Halsey (conductor)
Donald Runnicles (conductor) 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. The World Orchestra for Peace and Donald Runnicles in Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Prom Repeat: Stage@thedock, Hull | 20170726 | | Afternoon on 3 with Verity Sharp Another chance to hear Tom Redmond introduce a special Prom from Hull - the UK City of Culture 2017 - from Sage@The Dock, the city's outdoor amphitheatre. Overlooking water it features the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour, and taking pride of place in the programme is Handel's justly famous Water Music, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for a Hanoverian king. No matter the weather, there is promise of storms and shipwrecks, calm seas and seductive sirens. Telemann: Water Music - overture
Delius: Summer Night on the River
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 3 in G major
Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER (BBC commission: first concert performance)
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Rameau: Naïs - overture
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches - High Wind; Calm Sea in Summer
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 2 in D major Royal Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) [First broadcast on Saturday 22nd July] Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists. Producer Ellie Mant. Tom Redmond introduces a Prom with a maritime flavour from Hull. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Proms At ... Bold Tendencies Multi-storey Car Park, Peckham (repeat) | 20170830 | | Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann Another chance to hear the Proms return to a Peckham car park to join Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra for a concert rooted in the sounds and communities of the city. Presented from Peckham by Tom Service 2pm
Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 (orch. Granville Bantock)
Kate Whitley: I am I say
John Adams: Harmonielehre Ruby Hughes, soprano
Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
The Multi-Story Youth Choir
The Multi-Story Orchestra
Christopher Stark, conductor Following the success last year of their Proms debut on their home turf in Peckham, Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra return for a programme that picks up two of the threads running through this year's Proms, and continues our showcase for talented young musicians.
The classical symphony gets an appropriately urban, contemporary makeover in the pulsing rhythms and metallic glitter of John Adams's Harmonielehre, while Kate Whitley's 'I am I say', written for local schoolchildren to perform, is inspired by nature but also firmly rooted in the sounds and communities of the city.
The concert opens with Bach's 'Wachet auf' (Sleepers, Awake) in Granville Bantock's unexpectedly rich orchestration. [First broadcast on Saturday 26th August] Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms Artists. Christopher Stark and Multi-Story Orchestra perform a Prom concert in a Peckham car park. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Proms At ... Holy Sepulchre Repeat | 20190828 | | Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the Prom from Holy Sepulchre London. BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform Benjamin Britten's Sacred and Profane, Judith Weir's Missa del Cid and Joanna Lee's At this man's hand. Presented by Ian Skelly from The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Holborn, London. Programme
William Walton: Where does the uttered music go?
Benjamin Britten: Sacred and Profane
John Ireland: The Holy Boy
Thea Musgrave: Rorate coeli
Elizabeth Maconchy: Three Donne Songs – No. 1: A Hymn to God the Father
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Valiant-for-truth
Judith Weir: Missa del Cid
Joanna Lee: At this man's hand (BBC commission: world premiere) BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin conductor The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin take the Proms to the ‘Musicians' Church', Holy Sepulchre London (aka St Sepulchure-without-Newgate), where Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood first learnt the organ and was later laid to rest.
This varied conspectus of 20th-century English choral music opens with the setting of lines by the then Poet Laureate, John Masefield, that Walton composed for the unveiling of the church's Henry Wood memorial window in 1946, and is brought up to date with a new commission by Joanna Lee, At this man's hand, setting the verse by Masefield that is inscribed on the window itself. Another chance to hear the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform Weir's Missa del Cid. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Proms At ... Southwark Cathedral Repeat | 20170816 | | Afternoon on 3 with Catriona Young Another chance to hear the BBC Singers with Chief Conductor David Hill perform the world premiere of In The Land Of Uz, by the group's Composer In Association, Judith Weir. Joined by tenor Adrian Thompson and The Nash Ensemble, In the Land of Uz is a dramatised reading of the biblical Book of Job, from which all the text is taken. The BBC Singers also perform Palestrina's masterful Missa 'Confitebor tibi' in the sumptuous acoustic of Southwark Cathedral. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi'
Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere) Adrian Thompson, tenor
BBC Singers
Nash Ensemble
David Hill, conductor [First broadcast Saturday 12th August] Followed by a selection of music by this week's Proms artists. The BBC Singers perform the world premiere of Weir's In The Land of Uz at the Proms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Puccini's La Bohe8me - A Tragic Love Story | 20200716 | | Puccini's La boh\u00e8me from the Royal Opera House, conducted by Antonio Pappano Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Opera Matinee: Puccini's La bohème from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Four struggling bohemians are living together in Paris, when one freezing Christmas Eve, a girl called Mimì knocks on their door looking for a candle light. Their lives are changed forever and Puccini's tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo became the stuff of operatic legend. Recorded in 2017, this production was the house's first new production of the work for 40 years. A stellar cast is led by Nicole Car and Michael Fabiano, with Antonio Pappano in the pit.
Presented by Penny Gore. Mimì.... Nicole Car (soprano)
Rodolfo.... Michael Fabiano (tenor)
Marcello.... Mariusz Kwiecień (baritone)
Musetta.... Simona Mihai (soprano)
Schaunard.... Gyula Nagy (baritone)
Colline.... Luca Tittoto (bass)
Benoît.... Jeremy White (bass)
Alcindoro.... Wyn Pencarreg (baritone)
Royal Opera House Chorus & Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor). At approx. 3.45pm
Guildhall School of Music and Drama musicians at BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg Anders Hillborg: Duo for cello and piano
Ben Tarlton (cello), Ben Smith (piano) at approx 4.05pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tito Munoz (conductor) |
| Rachmaninov, Elgar, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra | 20190114 | | Russian choral masterpieces and an Elgar favourite from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Plus pianist Behzod Abduraimov joins the orchestra for a performance of Rachmaninov's tour-de-force 3rd Piano Concerto. Presented by Tom McKinney 2.00pm
Trad. Russian – Thy tomb, O Saviour (Grob tvoy, spase)
BBC Singers
Elena Sharkova (conductor) Rachmaninov - Concerto No.3 in D minor for piano & orchestra, Op.30
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.2.50pm
Trad. Russian - The Resurrection Evlogitaria
BBC Singers
Elena Sharkova (conductor) Rachmaninov - 3 Symphonic Dances for orchestra, Op.45
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.3.35pm
Rachmaninov - Vespers (shortened version)
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) c.4.30pm
Elgar – Variations on an original theme (“Enigma”), Op.36
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Russian choral works with the BBC Singers. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky And Moeran From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin | 20191004 | | A week of concerts performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin draws to a close firstly with an all Russian programme conducted by Alexander Vedernikov and featuring Belarusian mezzo Oksana Volkova who sings Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death. We round the week off with the only completed symphony of E.J Moeran, who though English was of Irish extraction and was greatly influenced by Irish folk music. 2.00pm
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead Op.29
Mussorgsky arr Shostakovich: Songs and Dances of Death
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Oksana Volkova, mezzo
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor 3.20pm
E.J Moeran: Symphony in G minor
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Henty, conductor Music by Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and Moeran. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Radio 3 Carol Competition, Two London Symphonies | 20181217 | | The live final of the 2018 Radio 3 Carol Competition: whose setting of Carol Anne Duffy's poem 'The Bee Carol' will win? Plus a 20th century American masterpiece from Roy Harris and another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's BBC Prom from July of so-called 'London' Symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams 2.00pm
Live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the BBC Singers and principal guest conductor Bob Chilcott perform the six shortlisted entries in this year's BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition. Pianist Richard Pearce joins the group in a programme interspersed with festive solo repertoire 3.00pm
Roy Harris: Symphony no.3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor
City Halls, 15/3 3.20pm
Haydn: Symphony no.104 'London'
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.2 'London'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor The Radio 3 Carol Competition live final and Haydn and Vaughan Williams' London symphonies Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Radio France Philharmonic | 20200415 | | Continuing our survey of French orchestral life, Hannah French presents a concert by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra with Mikko Franck, Melody Louledjian and Nikolai Lugansky. Stravinsky: Four Russian Peasant Songs
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16
Rachmaninov: Prelude No. 5, from 'Thirteen Preludes, op. 32'
Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, L. 62
Ravel: Boléro
Melody Louledjian, soprano
Emanuela Pascu, mezzo-soprano
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Anthony Devriendt, horn
Stéphane Bridoux, horn
Bruno Fayolle, horn
Hugues Viallon, horn
Radio France Children's Chorus (Maîtrise de Radio France)
Sofi Jeannin, chorus director
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikko Franck, conductor Given in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris, last September. The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Russian and French music. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Highlights of the French concert season |
| Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra | 20190520 | | Fiona Talkington introduces recordings made at the Philharmonie concert hall in Paris.
Opened in January 2015, this set of spaces in the north of Paris has at its core a symphonic concert hall of 2,400 seats designed by Jean Nouvel. The Radio Philharmonic is heard there today in performances conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and Mikko Franck.Debussy: Jeux
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) - Symphony No. 2 ('Le Double')
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher, conductor followed at approx 3.20pm by Copland: Quiet City
Fauré: Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80
Philip Glass: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (French Premiere)
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances, from 'West Side Story'
Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck, conductor Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ravel, Debussy, Barber And Poulenc From Paris | 20190524 | | Hannah French introduces performances from the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.
Today's programme features two of Ravel's most popular works, Barber's famous Adagio and Rachmaninov's lyrical second piano concerto.Ravel: La Valse (piano version)
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61
Astor Piazzolla: Improvisation on 'Libertango' (encore)
Debussy: Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Gvantsa Buniatishvili (piano)
Claude Delangle (saxophone)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck (conductor) followed at approx 3.00pm Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Martinů: Violin Concerto No. 1, H. 226 Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin),
Orchestre National de France, Lan Shui (conductor) and at approx 3.45pm Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18
Nikolai Lugansky (piano),
Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine, (conductor) Hannah French introduces Ravel, Poulenc and Rachmaninov from France's leading orchestras. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Ravel, Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra | 20181226 | | Colourful and luxuriant music by Maurice Ravel is on the menu for today's programme. Including pieces inspired by two dance forms: the waltz and the bolero. These performances were recorded at the 30th Anniversary of Riccardo Chailly's Debut at the Lucerne Festival. Presented by Fiona Talkington 2.00pm
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Ravel: La Valse
Ravel: Suite No. 1 from 'Daphnis et Chloé'
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from 'Daphnis et Chloé'
Ravel: Boléro
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly , conductor Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in music by Ravel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Respighi, Rossini, Tchaikovsky | 20190208 | | The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three great orchestral frescoes by Respighi; more Rossini from the mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds; and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko. And also Our Classical Century piece this week: Walton's Crown Imperial Ottorino Respighi is best known for his trilogy of orchestral tone poems: Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome Presented by Penny Gore Donizetti: Don Pasquale Overture
Puccini: Capriccio sinfonico
Respighi: Feste Romane
Respighi: Fontane di Roma
Respighi: Pini di Roma
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor) 3.15pm
Langgaard: Violin Concerto
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Linus Roth (violin)
Antony Hermus (conductor) 3.25pm
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie Overture
Rossini: La pace mia smarrita from Moses in Egypt
Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor) 3.40pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: A History of the Dansant
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
John Wilson 3.50pm
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto op.35
Aleksey Semenenko, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Holly Mathieson, conductor 4.20pm
Walton: Crown Imperial
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor) The BBC SSO performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Aleksey Semenenko. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three great orchestral frescoes by Respighi; more Rossini from the mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds; and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with soloist Aleksey Semenenko 3.40pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: A History of the Dansant
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson 3.50pm
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto op.35
Aleksey Semenenko, violin
Holly Mathieson, conductor |
| Rivers: Arnold, Elgar, Wallen, Beamish | 20190514 | | Featuring little-known English music from Elgar and Arnold, a beautiful concerto by Sally Beamish and evocative works by Roussel, John McCabe and Errollyn Wallen 2.00pm
Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor) 2.30pm
Edward Elgar
The River
BBC Concert Orchestra
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Martin Yates (conductor) 2.35pm
Errollyn Wallen
Mighty River
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor) 2.50pm
Johann Strauss II
Blue Danube – waltz, op.314
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor) 3.00pm
Sally Beamish
Cello Concerto ‘River'
Robert Cohen (cello)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Ola Rudner (conductor) 3.25pm
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Sea drift - choral rhapsody Op.69 for 8 voices
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor) 3.30pm
Albert Roussel
Evocations - symphonic poem Op.15
François le Roux (baritone)
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
CBSO Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) 4.15pm
John McCabe
Symphony no.4 ‘Of Time and the River'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor) Music inspired by rivers from Arnold, Elgar, Errollyn Wallen, Sally Beamish and Roussel. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Rivers: Maconchy, Ellington, Smetana | 20190513 | | Celebrating rivers and the flow of water, this afternoon's programme features watery music by Elizabeth Maconchy and Duke Ellington, as well as iconic works by Smetana and Beethoven and an exotic concerto by Saint-Saens. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Elizabeth Maconchy
Proud Thames – coronation overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor) 2.05pm
Camille Saint-Saens
Concerto no. 5 in F major Op.103 (Egyptian) for piano and orchestra
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 2.30pm
Smetana
Ma Vlast
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) 3.45pm
Beethoven
Symphony no. 6 in F major Op.68 (Pastoral)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor) 4.25pm
Duke Ellington
The River Suite (excs)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor) Watery music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Duke Ellington, Smetana and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Romeo And Juliet By Niccolo Vaccai | 20190328 | | Giulietta e Romeo by Nicola Vaccai From the Festival della Valle d'Itria Now known mainly as an exceptionally gifted singing teacher Niccola Vaccai was also a prolific composer of some 16 operas. He was born into a family of doctors in 1790 and was on a career journey towards practising Law when he found his real vocation of music. Bravely, he managed to shake off the family expectations of a 'respectable' career and followed his dream of becoming a composer. At the same time as establishing his composing career he also became a much sought after singing teacher. In the early nineteenth century Vaccai studied with the great Paisiello in Naples. This afternoon's Opera Matinee is Romeo and Juliet, based on the Shakespeare play. It's really his masterpiece. After a career in which he found success in Venice, Naples, Rome and even London, Vaccai was in the end completely overshadowed and outclassed by Bellini and his works have sunk into obscurity. This charming opera abounds with music instantly recognised as in the Italian style. This recording was made at the festival of the Itria Valley in the Puglia region of Italy. Capellio.... Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)
Giulietta....Leonor Bonilla (soprano)
Romeo....Raffaella Lupinacci (contralto)
Adele....Paoletta Marrocu (soprano)
Tebaldo....Vasa Stajkic (bass)
Frate Lorenzo....Christian Senn (bass)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Sesto Quatrini....(conductor) Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Niccolo Vaccai. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Capellio....Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)
Giulietta....Leonor Bonilla (soprano)
Romeo....Raffaella Lupinacci (contralto)
Adele....Paoletta Marrocu (soprano)
Tebaldo....Vasa Stajkic (bass)
Frate Lorenzo....Christian Senn (bass)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Sesto Quatrini....(conductor) |
| Rossini, Mozart And Tchaikovsky | 20190709 | | Today, conductor Paolo Arrivabeni takes to the rostrum to conduct the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, our featured ensemble this week, in a concert which opened with Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra. It's followed by Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with Michel Westphal as soloist, finishing with Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian). The second part this afternoon sees the ensemble conducted by Emmanuel Krivine in a concert featuring Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Russian virtuoso Evgeny Kissin as soloist, and Zemlinsky's fantasy The Little Mermaid, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen.
Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra, overture
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (‘Little Russian')
Michel Westphal, clarinet
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Paolo Arribaveni, conductor 3.17pm
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat,. S. 124
Zemlinsky: The Little Mermaid, fantasy after Andersen
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor 4.30pm
New Music Biennial
9Bach: Yn dy Lais - In Your Voice
9Bach Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Today, conductor Paolo Arrivabeni takes to the rostrum to conduct the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, our featured ensemble this week, in a concert which opened with Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra. It's followed by Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with Michel Westphal as soloist, finishing with Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian). The second part this afternoon sees the ensemble conducted by Emmanuel Krivine in a concert featuring Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Russian virtuoso Evgeny Kissin as soloist, and Zemlinsky's fantasy The Little Mermaid, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen.
Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Penny Gore. |
| Rossi's Orpheus | 20201119 | | Opera Matinee, presented by Penny Gore. Luigi Rossi's 17th-century opera on the myth of Orpheus from the candlelit space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, performed by the Early Opera Company, conducted by Christian Curnyn and directed by Keith Warner. Rossi's version of the myth casts two sopranos in the leading roles. Mary Bevan sings the role of the musician Orpheus who is betrothed to Eurydice, sung by Louise Alder, but bad omens threaten their future together. The shepherd Aristaeus, sung by mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup, is also in love with Eurydice and is driven mad by her rejection of him. This version of the tale includes Eurydice's death and Orpheus's journey into Hades to bring her back. But Rossi's opera, written for a lavish Paris staging, ends on a happier note. This little-known opera includes some charming music, beautiful arias and ensembles. Cast: Orpheus.... Mary Bevan (soprano)
Eurydice.... Louise Alder (soprano)
Aristeus.... Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano)
Engymion/Charon.... Philip Smith (baritone)
Venus.... Sky Ingram (soprano)
Cupid.... Keri Fuge (soprano)
Satyr/Pluto.... Graeme Broadbent (bass)
Momus/Alkippe/Jove.... Mark Milhofer (tenor)
Aegea.... Verena Gunz (mezzo-soprano)
Thalia/Hymen/Clotho.... Lauren Fagan (soprano)
Euphrosyne/Lachesis.... Jennifer Davis (soprano)
Aeglea/Atropos/Bacchus....Emily Edmonds (mezzo-soprano) The Orchestra of the Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn (conductor) Opera matinee: Luigi Rossi's opera Orpheus from the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Rtve Madrid | 20191223 | | In this festive week, Afternoon Concert features concerts from all over Europe. Today's focuses on the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid. They begin with two 20th century Russian masterpieces – Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2, premiered in Paris in 1924, this time with fellow-Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko; and Shostakovich's so-called “answer to just criticism” – his tour-de-force Symphony No.5. Trombonist Christian Lindberg turns conductor for the next two pieces – the first of which is his own Concerto for trumpet and trombone “Un sueño morisco”, followed by Carl Nielsen's own 5th Symphony, composed just after the end of World War I. Presented by Hannah French. 2pm
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Nikolai Demidenko, piano
RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid
Pablo González, conductor 3.25pm
Christian Lindberg: Un sueño morisco (Concerto for trumpet and trombone)
Nielsen: Symphony No.5, Op.50
Pacho Flores, trumpet
Ximo Vicedo, trombone
RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid
Christian Lindberg, conductor Music by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Nielsen and Christian Lindberg from Madrid. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras In this festive week, Afternoon Concert features concerts from all over Europe. Today's focuses on the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid. They begin with two 20th century Russian masterpieces – Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2, premiered in Paris in 1924, this time with fellow-Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko; and Shostakovich's so-called “answer to just criticism ? – his tour-de-force Symphony No.5. Trombonist Christian Lindberg turns conductor for the next two pieces – the first of which is his own Concerto for trumpet and trombone “Un sueño morisco ?, followed by Carl Nielsen's own 5th Symphony, composed just after the end of World War I. |
| 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
Dvorak: Romance in F minor, Op 11
Walton: Sonata for Strings
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 (Italian)
Maureen Nelson (violin)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 3.10pm
Paul Schoenfield: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Members of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra:
Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet), Francisco Fullana (violin), Timothy Lovelace (piano) 3.40pm
J S Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Shostakovich (arr. Barshai): Chamber Symphony in F major, Op 73a (based on String Quartet No 3)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58
Jeremy Denk (piano/conductor)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 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. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra play music by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Beethoven. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| 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
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No 1 in G major, Op 11 No 1
Mozart: Serenade No 12 in C minor, K388
Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F major (American) arr. for string orchestra
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 3.05pm
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Stephen Paulus: Mass for a Sacred Place
Kathy Kienzle (harp)
Minnesota Chorale
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor) 4.20pm
Sally Beamish: Piano Concerto No 3 (City Stanzas) - World Premiere performance
Jonathan Biss (piano)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Mischa Santora (conductor) 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. Recordings of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra in concert. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Schubert, Saint-saens And Musgrave | 20181005 | | Schubert arranged by Liszt and Saint-Saens' innovative Fourth Piano Concerto with Louis Lortie, plus cellist Josephine Knight joins the orchestra for the world premiere of Thea Musgrave's From Darkness into the Light, presented by Tom McKinney. There's a UK premiere too: Alissa Firsova's Die Windsbraut (The Bride of the Wind), and Bohemian tales with Dvorak, Bartok and Suk. 2pm
Dvořàk: Legends Op 59 Nos 1-3
Bartók: Divertimento for strings
Alissa Firsova: Die Windsbraut (UK premiere)
Suk: Pohadka
BBC Philharmonic
Leo McFall (conductor) c.3.10pm
Schubert ar. Liszt Four Songs: Die junge Nonne; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Lied der Mignon; Erlkönig
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano) c.3.25pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No 4
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano) c.3.50pm
Thea Musgrave: From Darkness into the Light (World Premiere)
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Josephine Knight (cello) c.3.10pm
Schubert arr. Liszt Fantasy in C (Wanderer)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano) Schubert, Saint-Saens and Musgrave with the BBC Philharmonic and presenter Tom McKinney. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Sibelius, Grieg And Beethoven From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra | 20190917 | | Concertos by Grieg and Beethoven, music by Sibelius, plus an exquisite miniature for oboe by Thea Musgrave Presented by Hannah French In this afternoon's programme, Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra presents two of the concert hall's best-loved concertos, by Grieg and Beethoven, with star soloists Denis Kozhukin and Julian Rachlin This week, Afternoon Concert is also celebrating veteran Scottish composer Thea Musgrave with recordings made at last year's Stockholm International Composer Festival. Today features a tiny piece for solo oboe written for the fiftieth birthday of the performer, Nicholas Daniel 2.00pm
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
Sibelius: Symphony no.2 in D
Denis Kozhukin, piano
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor 3.40pm
Musgrave: Dawn
Nicholas Daniel, oboe 1545
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D
Julian Rachlin, violin
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Music by Sibelius, Grieg and Beethoven, plus an exquisite miniature by Thea Musgrave. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Stanford From The Wexford Festival | 20200416 | | |
| Suisse Romande Orchestra And The New Music Biennial | 20190712 | | Ending the week with our featured ensemble, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno takes to the rostrum to conduct Tchaikovsky's The Tempest, a fantasy inspired by Shakespeare, then Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with François-Frédéric Guy as soloist, ending with another piece by the Hungarian composer, a suite from his ballet 'The Miraculous Mandarin'. Then the ensemble performs Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, in the 1943 version for strings, under the baton this time of Julien Leroy.
Then Our Classical Century, featuring highlights from the last one hundred years of great music, is dedicated to the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and four dances from his ballet 'Estancia'. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
The afternoon closes with a newly-commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Kate Molleson.2.00pm
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18, fantasy after Shakespeare
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin, suite, S.73
François-Frédéric Guy, piano
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor 3.14pm
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1943 version for string orchestra)
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Julien Leroy, conductor 3.42pm
Ginastera: Dances from ballet ‘Estancia': Los trabajadores agrícolas; Danza del trigo; Los peones de la hacienda; Danza final (Malambo)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor 3.56pm
New Music Biennial
Sona Jobarteh: Innovation Through Preservation
Sona Jobarteh (director)
Steven Hussey (violin)
Eric Appapoulay (guitar)
Musa Filly Jobarteh (percussion)
Mafu Conteh (harp)
Yusupha Soso (xylophone)
Ivan Hussey (cello)
Andy Waterworth (double bass) Music by Tchaikovsky, Bartok and Schoenberg. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras Ending the week with our featured ensemble, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno takes to the rostrum to conduct Tchaikovsky's The Tempest, a fantasy inspired by Shakespeare, then Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with François-Frédéric Guy as soloist, ending with another piece by the Hungarian composer, a suite from his ballet 'The Miraculous Mandarin'. Then the ensemble performs Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, in the 1943 version for strings, under the baton this time of Julien Leroy.
Then Our Classical Century, featuring highlights from the last one hundred years of great music, is dedicated to the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and four dances from his ballet 'Estancia'.Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
The afternoon closes with a newly-commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.
Presented by Kate Molleson. 3.42pm
Ginastera: Dances from ballet ‘Estancia': Los trabajadores agrícolas; Danza del trigo; Los peones de la hacienda; Danza final (Malambo)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor |
| Summer Festivals | 20200730 | | Opera Matinee: Puccini's Tosca from the Theatre de l'Archeveche, Aix-en-Provence. Puccini's verismo opera Tosca, which tells the tale of the love between Tosca and Cavaradossi pitted against the plotting of the evil chief of police, Baron Scarpia. A top cast includes Angel Blue as Tosca and Joseph Calleja as her doomed lover Cavaradossi, with Alexey Markov as the plotting Baron Scarpia. Daniele Rustioni conducts the Lyon Opera Chorus and Orchestra. Tosca.... Angel Blue (soprano)
Prima Donna.... Catherine Malfitano (soprano)
Mario Cavaradossi.... Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police.... Alexey Markov (baritone)
Cesare Angelotti, a former consul.... Simon Shibambu (bass)
Sacristan.... Leonardo Galeazzi (baritone)
Sciarrone, a police agent.... Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (bass)
Spoletta, a police agent.... Michael Smallwood (tenor)
Lyon Opera Chorus, Children's Chorus & Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni (conductor) Following the opera matinee, we head to the Lugano Festival in Switzerland for another highlight from their archive, as pianist Polina Leschenko plays solo music by Chopin. The programme continues in Switzerland at the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Basel Festival, and the world premiere of a new piece by Portuguese composer Bruno Soiero and a performance of Saint-Saens 2nd Cello Concerto from Sol Gabetta. approx. 4.00pm
Chopin – Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, Op.22 Polina Leschenko (piano) approx 4.15pm
Bruno Soiero – Sillages, Sons de Parfums (World Premiere)
Saint-Saens – Cello Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.119 Sol Gabetta (cello)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Pierre Bleuse (conductor) Presented by Tom McKinney Opera Matinee: Tosca from the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Daniele Rustioni Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals | 20200731 | | Tom McKinney ends his week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019. Today's programme begins at the Vilnius Festival, with music by Baltic composers Peeter Vähi and Peteris Vasks alongside a work by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. Then there's more from the 2019 Magic Summer Festival in Bucharest, as the Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra play's Mozart's Symphony No.31. There's also another visit to the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival with a performance of Bizet's Symphony in C from the Basel Chamber Orchestra; and we end with a final performance from the opera gala held at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen. Tom's final highlight from the archive of the Lugano Festival in 2003 features pianist Alexander Gurning playing Chopin's Rondo a la Krakowiak with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky. 2pm
Peeter Vähi: Concerto for Birbynė and Chamber Orchestra
Giya Kancheli – Angels of Sorrow
Peteris Vasks – Da pacem, Domine Vytautas Kiminius (birbynė)
Dalia Kuznecovaité (violin)
Elena Daunytė (cello)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Jauna Muzika Vilnius Municipal Chorus
Adrija čepaitė (conductor) approx. 3.10pm
Chopin - Rondo a la Krakowiak in F, Op.14 Alexander Gurning (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor) approx. 3.25pm
Mozart – Symphony No.31 in D, K.297 “Paris” Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor) approx. 4.15pm
Bizet – Ton Coeur n'a pas compris le mien [Les Pecheurs de Perles] Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Levy Sekgapane (tenor)
Tivoli Copenhagen Phil
Patrick Lange (conductor) Music from 2019 European Summer festivals in Vilnius, Bucharest, Gstaad and Copenhagen. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals | 20200803 | | Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Philharmonic with music by Pärt, Rachmaninov and Gliere, from a 2007 Prom. The climax of their concert with conductor Vassily Sinaisky is the Proms premiere of the monumental Third Symphony by Russian composer Reinhold Gliere, inspired by legendary folk hero Ilya Muromets. Plus ecstatic music by Welsh composer Grace Williams from a 2015 Prom given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 2.00pm
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
with Nelson Goerner (piano)
2.30pm
Gliere: Symphony No 3 in B minor, Op 42 (Ilya Muromets) (Proms premiere)
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky 3.55pm
Grace Williams: Fairest of Stars
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years by the BBC orchestras and choirs. This week features all six BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales. The series also celebrates the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage (on Thursday this week), and highlights some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day. Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals | 20200810 | | This week celebrating summer festivals around Europe starts with a flourish: the opening concert of the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival which was recorded with no audience in early July. Every year since 2014, the Festival has invited an outstanding musician to spend the summer away from the bustle of daily life, performing up to 20 concerts and workshops with complete artistic freedom. This summer several portrait artists from the past few years came together to launch the "Summer of Opportunities" with this triumphant opening concert. Sol Gabetta, Martin Grubinger, Avi Avital, Sabine Meyer and Xavier de Maistre join the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and conductor Alan Gilbert for concertante pieces by, among others, Bach, Boieldieu and Ishii Maki.
Later in the afternoon, the first of two archive performances this week from the wonderful Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, Switzerland: the Argentine-Swiss pianist performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G.Presented by Fiona Talkington. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Avi Avital, mandolin Ishii Maki: Thirteen Drums
Martin Grubinger, percussion Adrien Boieldieu, arr. Arthur Lilienthal: Harp Concerto in C
Xavier de Maistre, harp Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, op. 69
Sol Gabetta, cello
Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano Mendelssohn, arr. Rainer Schottstädt: Konzertstück No. 1 in F minor, op. 113
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Reiner Wehle, bassoon Grieg: Holberg Suite
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor c.4pm
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Martha Argerich, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor This week's programmes end with Maria João Pires playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 at the Martha Argerich Project, and between now and then Afternoon Concert celebrates vocal and choral music with orchestra from summer festivals across Europe in 2019. You can hear Schoenberg's epic Gurrelieder from the Helsinki Festival on Friday; a colourful nineteenth-century Polish opera by Stanislaw Moniuszko from the Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival in Warsaw (Thursday Opera Matinee); Handel's oratorio Susanna from the Handel Festival in his birthplace Halle near Leipzig (Wednesday and Thursday); and tomorrow Thomas Hampson singing Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' at the Turku Music Festival in Finland and settings of the Stabat Mater spanning 250 years from the Utrecht Early Music Festival in the Netherlands. Photo: Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Axel Nikolaus The opening concert of the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival showcases star soloists. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals | 20200813 | | Opera Matinee this week is a cheerful one-acter set on the picturesque banks of the Vistula, on the edge of Warsaw - and featuring a slightly less famous barber than Rossini's from Seville. Born in what's now Belarus in 1819, Stanisław Moniuszko moved to Warsaw and fell very much in love with his new home. The Raftsman is a charming depiction of the city in music, with beautiful melody & rich colour. A simple plot: father wants daughter to marry a socially more acceptable bloke - a hairdresser from Warsaw - rather than the eponymous raftsman. The frustrated raftsman threatens to leave the village to seek out a long-lost brother; and it turns out that the hairdresser is that brother who, of course, magnanimously steps aside. This performance was recorded in the Wielki Theatre of Polish National Opera at last year's Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, marking the 200th anniversary of Moniuszko's birth.
After the short opera, this week's celebration of vocal and choral music in Afternoon Concert continues with the last two acts of Handel's dramatic oratorio Susanna (Act 1 was broadcast yesterday). Susanna premiered after Solomon in 1749 and is one of Handel's less-performed oratorios; it's heard here in a concert performance from the 2019 Handel Festival in the composer's hometown of Halle, near Leipzig.
Presented by Georgia Mann.2pm
Stanisław Moniuszko: Flis (The Raftsman)
Jakub.... Mariusz Godlewski, baritone
Zosia.... Ewa Tracz, soprano
Franek (The Raftsman).... Matheus Pompeu, tenor
Antoni.... Krzysztof Bączyk, bass
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus
Violetta Bielecka, chorus conductor
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, conductor c.3pm
Handel: Susanna HWV 66 - Acts 2 & 3
Susanna.... Mary Bevan, soprano
Joacim, Susanna's husband.... Tim Mead, countertenor
Chelsias, Susanna's Father.... David Soar, bass
First Elder.... Thomas Walker, tenor
Second Elder.... Derek Welton, bass baritone
Daniel / A servant.... Charlotte Shaw, soprano
Richter.... Jakob Eberlein, bass
MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig
Benjamin Goodson, chorus director
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Paul McCreesh, conductor Opera Matinee: Moniuszko's Flis (The Raftsman) and the conclusion of Handel's Susanna. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals | 20200831 | | BBC Orchestras at the Proms. Georgia Mann introduces performances recorded at the BBC Proms of music ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, starting today with an American Night at the Proms, courtesy of the BBC Concert Orchestra and its New York State-born Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart.
Toes were tapping in a concert that started with folk songs and dances – joyously orchestrated and reworked by Aaron Copland – and ended in Chris Brubeck's distinctive blend of classical, jazz, blues and country music and his exhilarating musical journey,Travels in Time for Three – a thrill-ride concerto composed for virtuoso string trio and orchestra. Plus music by Dave Brubeck whose 100th birthday falls this year.From a BBC Prom on 09 September 2014. Copland: Rodeo – 4 dance episodes
Copland: Appalachian spring – suite for orchestra
Dave Brubeck, arr. Chris Brubeck: Blue rondo à la turk (UK premiere)
Chris Brubeck: Travels in time for three – for string trio and orchestra (UK premiere)
BBC Concert Orchestra with with Time for Three (string trio: Nick Kendall and Zach De Pue on violins and Ranaan Meyer on double bass)
Conductor Keith Lockhart followed by music from the 2003 'The Nation's Favourite Prom.' including Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending played by Janine Jansen. BBC Concert Orchestra in an all-American programme of Copland, Dave and Chris Brubeck. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals: The Proms | 20200817 | | Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel and James MacMillan - the famous 1990 world premiere of his The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. 2.00pm
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain, with Lynn Harrell (cello)
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (complete)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Donald Runnicles 3.45pm
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (world premiere)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk This week of Afternoon Concert features BBC Proms by six different BBC performing groups, starting with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra today. Tomorrow you can hear two concerts: the BBC Singers in A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of Passion story with music from five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt and James MacMillan; and then Günter Wand conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony - the last of his legendary Proms with the orchestra, from 1995. On Wednesday Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic (and BBC Singers again) in Haydn and Schubert, in a Prom from 2006. In Thursday Opera Matinee, Jane Glover conducts a 2012 Prom semi-staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And on Friday, following a 2013 concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard, the BBC Concert Orchestra return to end the week on Friday with a 2003 Prom performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by David Attenborough.
. Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals: The Proms | 20200818 | | Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. The first of today's two concerts is a Prom from 2017 given by the BBC Singers, the City of London Sinfonia and soloists under the baton of Sofi Jeannin: it's called A Patchwork Passion, and brings together five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J. S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt and Sir James MacMillan.
Then, from 1995, the last of the legendary BBC Proms given by the German conductor Günter Wand with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.2.00pm
A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of the Passion story with music by various composers
Thomas Elwin,tenor
Christopher Bowen,tenor
David Shipley, bass
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Conductor Sofi Jeannin 3.30pm
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Günter Wand Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals: The Proms | 20200820 | | Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Orchestras and Choirs: Jane Glover conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers in The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan - perhaps the most touching operetta they ever wrote - in this Prom from 2012. Gilbert and Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard
Elsie Maynard ….. Lisa Milne, soprano
Jack Point ….. Mark Stone, baritone
Colonel Fairfax ….. Andrew Kennedy, tenor
Phoebe Meryll ….. Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano
Wilfred Shadbolt ….. Toby Stafford-Allen, baritone
Leonard Meryll ….. Tom Randle, tenor
Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley ….. Leigh Melrose, baritone
Dame Carruthers ….. Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano
Kate, her niece.... Mary Bevan, soprano
Sergeant Meryll.... Mark Richardson, bass-baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Jane Glover Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Summer Festivals: The Proms | 20200821 | | Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Orchestras and Choirs: Russian music from the BBC NOW and the BBC Concert Orchestra with David Attenborough in Peter and the Wolf. 2.00pm
Colin Matthews: Turning Point (UK premiere)
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor, Op 103 (The Year 1905)
Daniel Hope, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Thomas Sondergard 3.45pm
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
David Attenborough, narrator
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Barry Wordsworth Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20190415 | | This week we feature recently recorded concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Today starts with Daniel Harding at the helm of the ensemble performing Allan Pettersson's Symphonic Movement, written in 1973, followed by Schumann's rarely performed Violin Concerto in D minor, with Alina Ibragimova as soloist, finishing with Berlioz's orchestral suite inspired by Romeo and Juliet. The afternoon ends with Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, with Harding again at the rostrum, conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as well as vocal soloists, the soprano Christiane Karg and the baritone Matthias Goerne. Presented by Hannah French. 2.00pm
Allan Pettersson: Symphonic Movement
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. posth.
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, orchestral suite Alina Ibragimova, violin
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor 3.15pm
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Christiane Karg, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Daniel Harding, conductor Music by Pettersson, Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20190416 | | The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform two concerts this afternoon. The first, conducted by Ben Gernon, features the overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka, then Mats Larsson Gothe's Ricerco 2, with the bassoon player Henrik Blixt as soloist, ending with Beethoven's Symphony 4. The second concert, this one with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Swedish orchestra, includes two piano concertos, both with Johnathan Biss as soloist: Beethoven's Piano Concerto 1 and Sally Beamish's Piano Concerto 3, 'City Stanzas', then the afternoon finishes with Richard Strauss tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Presented by Hannah French. 2pm
Glinka: Overture to 'Ruslan and Lyudmila'
Mats Larsson Gothe: Ricerco 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat, op. 60 Henrik Blixt, bassoon (in Gothe)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon, conductor 3.04pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, op. 15
Sally Beamish: Piano Concerto No. 3 ('City Stanzas')
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 Jonathan Biss, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor Music by Glinka, Gothe, Beethoven, Sally Beamish and Richard Strauss. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20190417 | | The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs a concert including Anton Webern's arrangement for orchestra of J.S. Bach's Ricercar a 6, followed by Rautavaara's Cello Concerto, 'Towards the Horizon', with Truls Mørk as soloist, ending with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä. Presented by Fiona Talkington. 2.00pm
J.S. Bach (arr. by Anton Webern): Ricercar a 6
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cello Concerto No. 2, 'Towards the Horizon'
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47 Truls Mørk, cello
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor Music by Bach, Rautavaara and Shotakovich. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swiss Summer Festivals (1/4) | 20190429 | | Fairy tales were a theme running through the 2018 Lucerne Summer Festival, depicting musical images of childhood. Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra's opening concert takes us into the world of Russian fairy-tale with Igor Stravinsky's flamboyantly colourful and lushly orchestrated Firebird. The eponymous bird frees Prince Ivan Czarevich and the beautiful Czarina from captivity in the garden of the evil wizard Kashchei as a reward to the Prince for his kindness. Decades later, another magical garden, the wondrous Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., inspired Stravinsky to compose his neoclassical concerto of the same name. Between the two, Lang Lang joins the orchestra for Mozart's great C minor piano concerto.
We then travel nearly 200 miles south west to Verbier, for a taste of the concert Valery Gergiev performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra at the start of their 2018 Summer Festival, for more Russian storytelling as we enter the world of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
Presented by Penny Gore2.00pm
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat ('Dumbarton Oaks')
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet (original version 1909-1910)
Lang Lang, piano Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Recorded in August 2018 at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre c.3.45pm
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite
Saint Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, op. 28 Daniel Lozakovich, violin
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Recorded in July 2018 at the Combins Hall, Verbier The opening concert of the 2018 Lucerne Festival plus Gergiev at the Verbier Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swiss Summer Festivals (2/4) | 20190430 | | A showcase for the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra: Haydn's Creation with a star line-up of soloists plus András Schiff, Vilde Frang & Tabea Zimmermann performing Mozart & Bach. Presented by Penny Gore 2.00pm
Haydn: The Creation, Hob. XXI:2 Miah Persson, soprano
Bernard Richter, tenor
Peter Mattei, baritone
Andreas Bauer, bass
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor c.3.45pm
Mendelssohn: Excerpts from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Overture, op. 21; Scherzo; Nocturne; Wedding March, op. 61
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat, K. 364
Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 Vilde Frang, violin
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Sir András Schiff, piano & conductor
Recorded in July 2017 in the Combins Hall, Verbier Haydn's Creation plus Andras Schiff with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swiss Summer Festivals (3/4) | 20190501 | | The Verbier Festival Orchestra with Leonidas Kavakos & Ying Fang perform Berg's haunting violin concerto & Mahler's 4th symphony under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.00pm
Berg: Violin Concerto ('To the memory of an angel')
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Ying Fang, soprano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Recorded in July 2018 at the Combins Hall, Verbier Festival Christoph Eschenbach, Leonidas Kavakos and Ying Fang with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Swiss Summer Festivals (4/4) | 20190503 | | Visiting orchestras to the Lucerne Summer Festival perform two giants of the symphonic canon and as this week's Our Classical Century focus, celebrating the most memorable musical moments from last century, we'll hear Nicola Benedetti's performance of Szymanowski's first violin concerto with which she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in May 2004.
The afternoon opens with a Jubilee concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore.2.00pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor, Hob. I:49 ('La Passione')
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Recorded in August 2018 at the Concert Hall, KKL, Lucerne c.3.30pm
Our Classical Century:
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto 1
Nicola Benedetti, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov c.3.55pm
Dvorak: Othello, op. 93, concert overture
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor
Recorded in September 2018 in the Concert Hall, KKL, Lucerne The Rotterdam Philharmonic and the CBSO visit the Lucerne Summer Festival. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Take Five And Youth Orchestras From Around The World | 20190614 | | As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music - Take Five - Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's music includes pieces inspired by South America. Robert Schumann: Overture to Genoveva, Op 81
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
George Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemaya
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: Abertura Festiva
Alberto Ginastera: Estancia - ballet suite Youth Orchestra of Bahia
Ronaldo Rolim (piano)
Ricardo Castro (conductor) Today's Take Five guest is the conductor and violinist Stephanie Childress who introduces the Orchestra Rheia, a new London-based group of highly talented musicians she's founded. The programme also features music by Leonard Bernstein. Elizabeth Alker introduces music by a youth orchestra from Brazil. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Take Five: European Union Youth Orchestra | 20190610 | | As part of Radio 3's celebration of music and youth, Elizabeth Alker introduces a series of orchestral concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today Gianandrea Noseda conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra in music by Chopin, Tchaikovsky and the contemporary Polish composer Agata Zubel. Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto is performed by the winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition. Agata Zubel: Fireworks (Premiere)
Frederyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E Minor
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
European Union Youth Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Today's featured Take Five guest is the composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson who meets his musical hero, Simon Rattle. And Elizabeth will also be speaking with members of the Manchester Collective, young musicians who are doing ground-breaking work to appeal to young and diverse audiences for classical music. A concert featuring works by Zubel, Chopin and Tchaikovsky Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Take Five: National Youth Orchestra Of France | 20190612 | | As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's programme features music from and about France. Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean, from 'Miroirs'
Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61
Igor Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
National Youth Orchestra of France
Nicolas Dautricourt (violin)
Fabien Gabal (conductor) There is also chance to hear from today's featured Take Five guest, Isata Kanneh-Mason, and from the young violinist Momoko Arima with a performance of Ysaye's fiendishly difficult 6th Sonata for solo violin. Music from, and about, France, including Ravel, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky and Debussy. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| Take Five: National Youth Orchestras Of Germany And Spain | 20190611 | | As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's music features music with links to Spain and Germany. Joaquin Turina: La Procesion del Rocio, Op 9
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Asier Polo (cello)
National Youth Orchestra of Spain
Pablo Gonzalez (conductor) Today's Take Five guest is the trombonist Peter Moore. Also in the programme: Anton Bruckner: Overture in G minor (1863)
Paul Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
German National Youth Orchestra
Elias Grandy (conductor) Music from, and about, Germany and Spain, including works by Strauss, Bartok and Bruckner. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 1/4 | 20191007 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.
Penny Gore this week introduces performances by one of the world's finest orchestras in recordings. After their triumph at this year's BBC Proms, the orchestra is heard here in performances given in their home city of Munich. The orchestra is conducted by some of the world's leading conductors, including their Principal Conductor, Mariss Jansons. The music this week includes Strauss's Four Last Songs, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird, Schumann's Fourth Symphony and Bruckner's Mass in F minor in recent performances conducted by Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Iván Fischer, François-Xavier Roth, Jakub Hrůša and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36
Kurt Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Thomas Hampson (baritone),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Rec. Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich 17.05.2019 Followed at approx 3.10pm Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
Augustin Hadelich, (violin),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor)
Rec. 19.10.2018 Philharmonie, Munich and approx 3.50pm Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C, K338
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iván Fischer, conductor
Rec. 12.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons and Ivan Fischer Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 1/5 | 20191007 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.
Penny Gore this week introduces performances by one of the world's finest orchestras in recordings. After their triumph at this year's BBC Proms, the orchestra is heard here in performances given in their home city of Munich. The orchestra is conducted by some of the world's leading conductors, including their Principal Conductor, Mariss Jansons. The music this week includes Strauss's Four Last Songs, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird, Schumann's Fourth Symphonyand Bruckner's Mass in f minor in recent performances conducted by Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Iván Fischer, François-Xavier Roth, Jakub Hrůša and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36
Kurt Weill:Four Walt Whitman Songs
Respighi: - The Pines of Rome, symphonic poem Thomas Hamson (baritone),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Rec. Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich 17.05.2019 Followed at approx 3.10pm Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
Augustin Hadelich, (violin),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor)
Rec. 19.10.2018 Philharmonie, Munich and approx 3.50pm Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iván Fischer, conductor
Rec. 12.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons and Ivan Fischer. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2/4 | 20191008 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.
Penny Gore introduces more performances from one of the world's finest orchestras. Today, two conductors famous for their performances on period instruments conduct the Bavarians - fabled for their noble tone - in music by Schumann, Haydn and Stravinsky.Haydn: Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob. I:52
Haydn: Berenice, che fai, Hob. XXIVa:10
Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Trauer')
Schumann: Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche (From Szenen aus Goethes Faust)
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Rec. 24.05.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich Followed at approx 3.45pm by: Boulez: Livre pour cordes
Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Rec. 05.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich John Eliot Gardiner and Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2/5 | 20191008 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.
Penny Gore introduces more performances from one of the world's finest orchestras. Today, two conductors famous for their performances on period instruments conduct the Bavarians - fabled for their noble tone - in music by Schumann, Haydn and Stravinsky.Haydn: Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob. I:52
Haydn: Berenice, che fai, Hob. XXIVa:10
Haydn:- Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Trauer')
R. Schumann: Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche
(From Szenen aus Goethes Faust)
R. Schumann - Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Rec. 24.05.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich Followed at approx 3.45pm by: Boulez: Livre pour cordes
Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Rec. 05.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and Xavier Roth. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 3/4 | 20191009 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert: Bernard Haitink conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Penny Gore introduces a performance of Beethoven's mighty Choral Symphony recorded in Munich in February this year and conducted by the masterful 90-year-old Dutch conductor. This is a performance of epic grandeur and liquid grace from an orchestra noted for its nobility of utterance.Beethoven: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op. 112
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nuno Coelho (conductor) Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Choral)
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Gerhild Romberger (contralto)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Gerald Finley (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Rec. 22.02.2019 Gasteig, Munich Bernard Haitink conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven, Symphony No 9 Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 3/5 | 20191009 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert: Bernard Haitink conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Penny Gore introduces a performance of Beethoven's mighty Choral symphony recorded in Munich in February this year and conducted by the masterful ninety year old Dutch conductor. This is a performance of epic grandeur and liquid grace from an orchestra noted for its nobility of utterance.Beethoven: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op. 112
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nuno Coelho (conductor) Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 ('Choral')
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Gerhild Romberger (contralto)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Gerald Finley (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Rec. 22.02.2019 Gasteig, Munich Bernard Haitink conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 4/4 | 20191011 | | The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert: Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss and Bruckner.
Diana Damrau joins this magisterial orchestra and its Latvian Principal Conductor for music of supreme lyricism and noble grandeur. And the week is rounded off with performances of Bartok and Mozart conducted by Iván Fischer.
Presented by Penny Gore.R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, op. posth.
Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Ilker Arcayürek (tenor)
Stanislav Trofimov (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Rec. 25.01.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich approx 3.25pm Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K. 543
Janine Jansen (violin),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iván Fischer (conductor)
Rec. 12.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss and Bruckner with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 5/5 | 20191011 | | |
| The Bbc Concert Orchestra Live | 20191213 | | Kate Molleson hosts the last in a week of live concerts from the BBC Orchestras – today Hannah French presents a wide-ranging concert live from our Maida Vale Studios. The BBC Concert Orchestra will be conducted by their Principal Guest Conductor Designate, Anna-Maria Helsing Zemlinsky arranges snowy Korngold, Britten arranges his beloved Mahler and Joby Talbot gives his unique take on Henry Purcell. And at the centre of the programme is Gerald Finzi's exquisite cantata Dies natalis, which sets texts by the metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne 2.00pm
Joby Talbot: Chacony in G minor
Mahler/ Britten: What the wild flowers tell me
Finzi: Dies natalis
Korngold/Zemlinsky: Der Schneemann: Prelude and Serenade
Janacek/Stein: Sinfonietta '
Thomas Elwin (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing in Talbot, Mahler, Finzi and Janacek. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bbc Concert Orchestra Play Dave Brubeck | 20200831 | | BBC Orchestras at the Proms. Georgia Mann introduces performances recorded at the BBC Proms of music ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, starting today with an American Night at the Proms, courtesy of the BBC Concert Orchestra and its New York State-born Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart.
Toes were tapping in a concert that started with folk songs and dances – joyously orchestrated and reworked by Aaron Copland – and ended in Chris Brubeck's distinctive blend of classical, jazz, blues and country music and his exhilarating musical journey, Travels in Time for Three – a thrill-ride concerto composed for virtuoso string trio and orchestra. Plus music by Dave Brubeck whose 100th birthday falls this year.From a BBC Prom on 09 September 2014. Copland: Appalachian spring – suite for orchestra
Copland: Rodeo – 4 dance episodes
Dave Brubeck, arr. Chris Brubeck: Blue rondo à la turk (UK premiere)
Chris Brubeck: Travels in time for three – for string trio and orchestra (UK premiere)
BBC Concert Orchestra with Time for Three (string trio: Nick Kendall and Zach De Pue on violins and Ranaan Meyer on double bass)
Conductor Keith Lockhart BBC Concert Orchestra in an all-American programme of Copland, Dave and Chris Brubeck. Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras |
| The Bbc Now And Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live | 20191210 | | Kate Molleson continues to host a week of live broadcasts from the BBC's performing groups around the country. Today Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a Russian programme that's both wintery and nostalgic We then move from Cardiff to London for a sunny programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra mixing the well-loved, the less well-known and a new work by young French composer Camille Pepin 2pm
Live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Glazunov: Winter from The Seasons
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Symphony 1 "Winter Dreams"
Anastasia Kobekina (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Gergely Madaras (conductor) c.3.30pm
Live from Maida Vale studios, London
Camille Pepin: Laniakea (UK premiere)
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Paul Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1
Aleksey Semenenko (violin)
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