Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [Afternoon Concert]

Episode

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20100322

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Schönberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore.

2.05pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 87 in A major

Colin Davis (conductor)

2.25pm

Martin: Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion & strings

Henrik Wiese, flute

Ramon Ortega Quero, oboe

Christopher Corbett, clarinet

Eberhard Marschall, bassoon

Eric Terwilliger, horn

Hannes Laubin, trumpet

Thomas Horch, trombone

Cornelius Meister (conductor)

3.05pm

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Deborah Voigt, Tove

Mihoko Fujimura, Wood-Dove

Stig Andersen, Waldemar

Herwig Pecoraro, Fool

Michael Volle, Peasant, Narrator

NDR Radio Chorus

MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Martin and Schoenberg.

20160229

Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015/16 concert season. Today's programme features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the orchestra's chief conductor Mariss Jansons, and includes a work which Jansons programmed as a 'surprise piece' to keep everyone guessing until the end.

2pm:

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1

2.15pm:

Purcell: Bid the virtures, bid the Graces (from Come ye sons of art);

Steffani: Spezza amor

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

2.35pm:

Strauss: Don Quixote

Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

3.20pm:

3.30pm:

Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88

conductor Mariss Jansons.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak.

20170206

Katie Derham presents a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Today, Yannick N退zet-S退guin conducts Beethoven's 2nd Symphony, Bartok's First Violin Concerto, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, and Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony, the 'Italian'. Then David Robertson takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble, joined by Synergy Vocals, in the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's Muzak and also Reich's The Desert Music.

2pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor

2.25pm:

Bartok: Violin Concerto No 1

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

2.45pm:

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Op 90, 'Italian

3.20pm:

Steve Reich: The Desert Music

David Robertson, conductor.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Bartok, Mendelssohn and Reich.

20180611

Kate Molleson launches a week of concerts by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Jean-F退ry Rebel and Leonard Bernstein. And Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own Violin Concerto.

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132 (version for string orchestra arr. by Franz Welser-M怀st)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op. 13 ('Winter Daydreams')

Conductor Franz Welser-M怀st

c. 3.30 pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

c. 4.00 pm

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Conductor Klaas Stok

c. 4.30 pm

Jean-F退ry Rebel: Les ɀl退mens

Conductor Robin Ticciati

Coming up later in the week:

- Tuesday's programme begins with Verdi's Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti

- Wednesday's programme features Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

- Thursday's Opera Matinee is Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera

- Friday's programme includes Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20130506

Presented by Penny Gore.

This week we focus on recent performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring the symphonies of Beethoven and some very personal musical responses to the devastation of World War II. Our regular Thursday Opera Matinee features a rarely heard 1930s work by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, itself a study of the traumas of war.

Today, music by Beethoven frames a trio of works for soloists and orchestra by Brahms, Schumann, and Krzysztof Penderecki. His Double Concerto, yet to be performed in the UK, was written for these young performers and premiered with the BRSO in Vienna last October. This concert was recorded in the orchestra's home venue - the Herkulessaal (Hercules Hall) of the Munich Residenz - which was reconstructed after WWII.

Beethoven Egmont Overture, Op.84

Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.10pm

Schumann Concertstuck in F, Op.86, for four horns and orchestra

Eric Terwilliger, Thomas Ruh,

Ralf Springmann,

Norbert Dausacker (horns)

Bavarian RSO, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

2.30pm

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat Op.83

Yefim Bronfman (piano)

3.15pm

Penderecki Double Concerto for Violin and Viola

Janine Jansen (violin)

Julian Rachlin (viola)

3.45pm

Beethoven Symphony No.2 in D, Op.36

Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of performances featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20100323

Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C major (K338)

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

2.20pm

Strauss: Horn Concerto No.1

Johannes Ritzkowsky (horn)

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

2.55pm

Mendelssohn: Elijah (Elias)

Camilla Tilling, soprano

Gerhild Romberger, contralto

Steve Davislim, tenor

Christian Gerhaher, baritone, Elias

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor).

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Mozart, Strauss and Mendelssohn.

20160301

Katie Derham showcases concert performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, including Vivaldi's Gloria with the baroque specialist Giovanni Antonini, and Dvorak's 6th Symphony conducted by Andris Nelsons.

2pm:

Vivaldi Dixit Dominus RV 594

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Katja Stuber (soprano)

Samuel Boden (tenor)

Christian Immler (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

conductor Giovanni Antonini

2.30pm:

Vivaldi: Cum dederit (from Nisi Dominus);

Bach: Cantata - Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei (BWV.179)

2.50pm:

Vivaldi Gloria RV.589

Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)

3.20pm:

Bach: Cantata - Erschallet, ihr Lieder (BWV.172)

3.40pm:

Dvorak: Symphony No.6

conductor Andris Nelsons.

Katie Derham with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vivaldi, Bach and Dvorak.

20170207

Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. With Marlis Petersen, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch as soloists. Also this afternoon, Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons conducts the orchestra in Sommer's Antigone, an overture to the tragedy of Sophocles.

2pm:

The Seasons, Parts 1 & 2 (Spring and Summer)

3.10pm

The Seasons, Parts 3 & 4 (Autumn and Winter)

Marlis Petersen, soprano

Andrew Staples, tenor

Florian Boesch, bass-baritone

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

4.10pm

Antigone - Overture to the tragedy of Sophocles

Mariss Jansons, conductor.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Simon Rattle in Haydn's The Seasons.

20180612

Kate Molleson presents performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi's Requiem. Robin Ticciati conducts Cesar Franck and Ravel. And Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann's Second Symphony.

Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano

Anita Rachvelishvili, mezzo-soprano

Francesco Meli, tenor

Riccardo Zanellato, bass

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Director Howard Arman

Conductor Riccardo Muti

c. 3.30 pm

C退sar Franck: Psych退

Conductor Robin Ticciati

c. 4.00 pm

Robert Schumann

Symphony No. 2

Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner

c. 4.40 pm

Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo退 Suite No. 2

Conductor Robin Ticciati.

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Verdi's Requiem.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20130507

Presented by Penny Gore.

Today's Beethoven symphony is the Eroica, originally dedicated to Napoleon but Beethoven's subsequent disillusionment prompted him to cross this dedication out and the published score read 'Sinfonia Eroica, Composed to Celebrate the Memory of a Great Man.

Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen laments the destruction of Germany during WW2, in particular the devastating bombing of Munich - where the Bavarian RSO are based. A theme from the funeral march (2nd movement) of Beethoven's Eroica is quoted at the end of the piece, with the words 'In Memoriam!' written in the score. Is it a dedication to Beethoven? or even to Hitler? Much as Beethoven rejected Napoleon, Strauss showed initial support then repudiation of the Nazi regime.

Mendelssohn's description of his second symphony was 'A Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible, for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra' and was written to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing.

Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E flat, op.55 'Eroica

Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.50pm

Strauss Metamorphosen

Strings of Bavarian RSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor)

3.20pm

Mendelssohn Symphony No.2 in B flat, Op.52 'Lobgesang

Christiane Karg (soprano)

Michael Schade (tenor)

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Bavarian RSO, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in music by Beethoven, Strauss and Mendelssohn.

20100324

Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore K339

Sandrine Piau, soprano

Anna Grevelius, alto

Rainer Trost, tenor

Alexey Tikhomirov, bass

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

2.25pm

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.55pm

Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the BRSO performing music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Bruckner.

20160302

Katie Derham presents a recent concert from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Munich with guest conductor Alan Gilbert, who opened the programme with a work by his contemporary American compatriot. Rouse says he uses the title Rapture to convey a sense of spiritual bliss, religious or otherwise.

2pm:

Christopher Rouse: Rapture

2:15pm:

Mozart: Piano concerto no.24 in C minor, K.491

Lars Vogt (piano)

2.45pm:

Nielsen Symphony no.3, op.27 (Sinfonia espansiva)

Christina Landshamer (soprano)

Michael Nagy (baritone)

conductor Alan Gilbert.

Katie Derham presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in C Rouse, Mozart and Nielsen

20170208

Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brahms's Tragic Overture and Reger's Requiem after Hebbel, with baritone Michael Volle. Also today, the Bavarian Radio Chorus directed by Howard Arman in Gabriel Jackson's The Armed Man and Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) by Schoenberg. The afternoon ends with the BRSO performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto with soloist Ilya Gringolts, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens.

2.pm:

Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81

Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor

2.15pm

Reger: Requiem, Op 144b

Michael Volle, baritone

2.30pm

Gabriel Jackson: The Armed Man

Howard Arman, director

2.40pm

Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13

2.50pm

Ligeti: Violin Concerto

Ilya Gringolts, violin

Peter Rundel, conductor.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Brahms, Reger, Jackson, Schoenberg and Ligeti.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20130508

Britten: War Requiem

To mark VE day, a concert in which the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is joined by an American soprano, an English tenor and a German baritone to perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. It was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century building was bombed during World War II. Britten composed the work in 1961-2, and interweaves the words of the Requiem mass with nine poems by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. This performance given in Munich, itself devastated during the war was warmly received by a capacity audience who showed their appreciation for what proved to be a memorable event of reconciliation rather than a mere concert.

Presented by Penny Gore

Britten: War Requiem, Op.66

Emily Magee (soprano)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

T怀lz Boys' Choir and Bavarian Radio Choir

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

To mark VE day, Penny Gore presents the Bavarian RSO and soloists in Britten's War Requiem

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20180613

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons in music by Richard Strauss, including the epic tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and the merry pranks of Till Eulenspiegel.

Richard Strauss:

Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

Burlesque in D minor, AV 85, for piano and orchestra

Daniil Trifonov, piano

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28

Conductor Mariss Jansons.

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss.

20100325

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Sch怀nberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore.

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.30pm

Dvorak: Violin Concerto

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

Colin Davis (conductor)

3.00pm

Schubert: Mass No.6 in E Flat

Christiane Oelze, soprano

Elisabeth von Magnus, contralto

Werner Güra, tenor

Markus Sch䀀fer, tenor

Andreas H怀rl, bass

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Daniel Harding (conductor)

4.15pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the BRSO in music by Lutoslawski, Dvorak, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.

20160304

Katie Derham presents the final selection this week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The esteemed conductor Riccardo Muti takes the helm for Schubert and Cherubini's Mass in A, composed in 1825 for the coronation of Charles X in France.

2pm:

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in C sharp minor, S.244/2

conductor Mariss Jansons

2.10pm:

Telemann: Ein Jammerton, ein schluchzend Ach, TWV 1:424

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

2:20pm:

Reinhard Keiser: Bertrubter Geist (from 'Die Verbindung des grossen Hercules mit der schonen Hebe')

2:30pm:

Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur Dich hab, BuxWV 38

2.35pm:

Schubert: Symphony no.4 in C minor (Tragic) D.417

3.20pm:

Cherubini: Mass in A

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

conductor Riccardo Muti.

Performances of Liszt, Telemann, Reinhard Keiser, Buxtehude, Schubert and Cherubini.

20170210

Closing a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katie Derham introduces an afternoon with Brahms's Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), with the ensemble, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens, joined by the Bavarian Radio Chorus. It's followed by another concert with the orchestra conducted this time by Emilio Pomarico performing the world premiere of the Accordion Concerto by Georges Aperghis, as well as Stefan Wolpe's First Symphony. Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons has the last word, conducting Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

2pm:

Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), Op 54

Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor

2.15pm:

Georges Aperghis: Accordion Concerto (World Premiere)

Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion

Emilio Pomarico, conductor

2.45pm:

Wolpe: Symphony No 1

3.15pm:

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano

Mariss Janssons, conductor

3.50pm:

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Mariss Janssons, conductor.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Brahms, Aperghis, Wolpe, Mahler and Rachmaninov.

20180615

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Schumann's Third Symphony, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and Mariss Jansons conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. And the Bavarian Radio Chorus performs The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Bo Holten which sets poems by William Blake including the Sick Rose and the Tyger.

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish')

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Magdalena Koenက, mezzo-soprano

Stuart Skelton, tenor

Conductor Sir Simon Rattle

c. 3.40 pm

Bo Holten: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Director Peter Dijkstra

c. 4.05 pm

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

Conductor Mariss Jansons.

Kate Molleson with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and music by Mahler and Schumann.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

20130510

Presented by Penny Gore

A week of programmes featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to an end with two seventh symphonies, written nearly 150 years apart. They frame a concerto by Shostakovich - a piano concerto in all but name - and Haydn's 'Mass for troubled times' which illustrates the rather different reaction of its composer to the advance of Napoleon than the Eroica Symphony we heard on Tuesday.

In 1945 Hartmann was one of the few creative people in Bavaria unblemished by association with the Nazi regime and was instrumental in rebuilding cultural life. He founded the Musica Viva concert series which championed music by young, hitherto unknown composers. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra continues the series to this day, and a recent concert included this performance of Hartmann's Seventh Symphony.

Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92

Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.45pm

Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, Op.35

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Hannes L䀀ubin, trumpet

3.15pm

Haydn Mass No. 11 in D minor, Hob. XXII/11 ('Nelson Mass')

Julia Kleiter, soprano

Katija Dragojevic, mezzo-soprano

Mark Padmore, tenor

Gerald Finley, bass-baritone

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Bavarian RSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor)

3.55pm

Hartmann Symphony No. 7 (1958)

Bavarian RSO, Emilio Pomarico (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the last of our Afternoons with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

20100326

Haydn: Harmoniemesse

Malin Hartelius, soprano

Judith Schmid, contralto

Kurt Streit, tenor

David Wilson-Johnson, bass

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.45pm

Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Cornelius Meister (conductor)

3.15pm

Kancheli: Dixi (World Premiere)

3.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (Choral)

Luba Orgonásová, soprano

Lioba Braun, contralto

Christian Elsner, tenor

Gerald Finley, bass

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the BRSO in music by Haydn, Mussorgsky, Kancheli and Beethoven.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
01		20100322	The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Schönberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. 2.05pm Haydn: Symphony No. 87 in A major Colin Davis (conductor) 2.25pm Martin: Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion & strings Henrik Wiese, flute Ramon Ortega Quero, oboe Christopher Corbett, clarinet Eberhard Marschall, bassoon Eric Terwilliger, horn Hannes Laubin, trumpet Thomas Horch, trombone Cornelius Meister (conductor) 3.05pm Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Deborah Voigt, Tove Mihoko Fujimura, Wood-Dove Stig Andersen, Waldemar Herwig Pecoraro, Fool Michael Volle, Peasant, Narrator NDR Radio Chorus MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig Bavarian Radio Chorus Mariss Jansons (conductor). Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Martin and Schoenberg.
01		20160229	Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015/16 concert season. Today's programme features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the orchestra's chief conductor Mariss Jansons, and includes a work which Jansons programmed as a 'surprise piece' to keep everyone guessing until the end. 2pm: Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1 2.15pm: Purcell: Bid the virtures, bid the Graces (from Come ye sons of art); Steffani: Spezza amor Anna Prohaska (soprano) Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2.35pm: Strauss: Don Quixote Yo-Yo Ma (cello) 3.20pm: 3.30pm: Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88 conductor Mariss Jansons. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak.
01		20170206	Katie Derham presents a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Today, Yannick N退zet-S退guin conducts Beethoven's 2nd Symphony, Bartok's First Violin Concerto, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, and Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony, the 'Italian'. Then David Robertson takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble, joined by Synergy Vocals, in the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's Muzak and also Reich's The Desert Music. 2pm: Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36 Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor 2.25pm: Bartok: Violin Concerto No 1 Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin 2.45pm: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Op 90, 'Italian 3.20pm: Steve Reich: The Desert Music David Robertson, conductor. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Bartok, Mendelssohn and Reich.
01		20180611	Kate Molleson launches a week of concerts by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Jean-F退ry Rebel and Leonard Bernstein. And Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own Violin Concerto. Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132 (version for string orchestra arr. by Franz Welser-M怀st) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op. 13 ('Winter Daydreams') Conductor Franz Welser-M怀st c. 3.30 pm Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen c. 4.00 pm Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Bavarian Radio Chorus Conductor Klaas Stok c. 4.30 pm Jean-F退ry Rebel: Les ɀl退mens Conductor Robin Ticciati Coming up later in the week: - Tuesday's programme begins with Verdi's Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti - Wednesday's programme features Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Thursday's Opera Matinee is Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera - Friday's programme includes Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
01	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	20130506	Presented by Penny Gore. This week we focus on recent performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring the symphonies of Beethoven and some very personal musical responses to the devastation of World War II. Our regular Thursday Opera Matinee features a rarely heard 1930s work by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, itself a study of the traumas of war. Today, music by Beethoven frames a trio of works for soloists and orchestra by Brahms, Schumann, and Krzysztof Penderecki. His Double Concerto, yet to be performed in the UK, was written for these young performers and premiered with the BRSO in Vienna last October. This concert was recorded in the orchestra's home venue - the Herkulessaal (Hercules Hall) of the Munich Residenz - which was reconstructed after WWII. Beethoven Egmont Overture, Op.84 Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.10pm Schumann Concertstuck in F, Op.86, for four horns and orchestra Eric Terwilliger, Thomas Ruh, Ralf Springmann, Norbert Dausacker (horns) Bavarian RSO, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) 2.30pm Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat Op.83 Yefim Bronfman (piano) 3.15pm Penderecki Double Concerto for Violin and Viola Janine Jansen (violin) Julian Rachlin (viola) 3.45pm Beethoven Symphony No.2 in D, Op.36 Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor). Penny Gore presents a week of performances featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
02		20100323	The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Schönberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C major (K338) Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) 2.20pm Strauss: Horn Concerto No.1 Johannes Ritzkowsky (horn) Alexander Liebreich (conductor) 2.55pm Mendelssohn: Elijah (Elias) Camilla Tilling, soprano Gerhild Romberger, contralto Steve Davislim, tenor Christian Gerhaher, baritone, Elias Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor). The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Mozart, Strauss and Mendelssohn.
02		20160301	Katie Derham showcases concert performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, including Vivaldi's Gloria with the baroque specialist Giovanni Antonini, and Dvorak's 6th Symphony conducted by Andris Nelsons. 2pm: Vivaldi Dixit Dominus RV 594 Anna Prohaska (soprano) Katja Stuber (soprano) Samuel Boden (tenor) Christian Immler (baritone) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conductor Giovanni Antonini 2.30pm: Vivaldi: Cum dederit (from Nisi Dominus); Bach: Cantata - Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei (BWV.179) 2.50pm: Vivaldi Gloria RV.589 Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano) 3.20pm: Bach: Cantata - Erschallet, ihr Lieder (BWV.172) 3.40pm: Dvorak: Symphony No.6 conductor Andris Nelsons. Katie Derham with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vivaldi, Bach and Dvorak.
02		20170207	Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. With Marlis Petersen, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch as soloists. Also this afternoon, Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons conducts the orchestra in Sommer's Antigone, an overture to the tragedy of Sophocles. 2pm: The Seasons, Parts 1 & 2 (Spring and Summer) 3.10pm The Seasons, Parts 3 & 4 (Autumn and Winter) Marlis Petersen, soprano Andrew Staples, tenor Florian Boesch, bass-baritone Bavarian Radio Chorus Sir Simon Rattle, conductor 4.10pm Antigone - Overture to the tragedy of Sophocles Mariss Jansons, conductor. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Simon Rattle in Haydn's The Seasons.
02		20180612	Kate Molleson presents performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi's Requiem. Robin Ticciati conducts Cesar Franck and Ravel. And Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann's Second Symphony. Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, mezzo-soprano Francesco Meli, tenor Riccardo Zanellato, bass Bavarian Radio Chorus Director Howard Arman Conductor Riccardo Muti c. 3.30 pm C退sar Franck: Psych退 Conductor Robin Ticciati c. 4.00 pm Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner c. 4.40 pm Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo退 Suite No. 2 Conductor Robin Ticciati. Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Verdi's Requiem.
02	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	20130507	Presented by Penny Gore. Today's Beethoven symphony is the Eroica, originally dedicated to Napoleon but Beethoven's subsequent disillusionment prompted him to cross this dedication out and the published score read 'Sinfonia Eroica, Composed to Celebrate the Memory of a Great Man. Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen laments the destruction of Germany during WW2, in particular the devastating bombing of Munich - where the Bavarian RSO are based. A theme from the funeral march (2nd movement) of Beethoven's Eroica is quoted at the end of the piece, with the words 'In Memoriam!' written in the score. Is it a dedication to Beethoven? or even to Hitler? Much as Beethoven rejected Napoleon, Strauss showed initial support then repudiation of the Nazi regime. Mendelssohn's description of his second symphony was 'A Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible, for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra' and was written to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E flat, op.55 'Eroica Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.50pm Strauss Metamorphosen Strings of Bavarian RSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor) 3.20pm Mendelssohn Symphony No.2 in B flat, Op.52 'Lobgesang Christiane Karg (soprano) Michael Schade (tenor) Bavarian Radio Chorus Bavarian RSO, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor). Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in music by Beethoven, Strauss and Mendelssohn.
03		20100324	The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Schönberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 Sandrine Piau, soprano Anna Grevelius, alto Rainer Trost, tenor Alexey Tikhomirov, bass Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Alexander Liebreich (conductor) 2.25pm Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.55pm Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor Herbert Blomstedt (conductor). Penny Gore presents the BRSO performing music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Bruckner.
03		20160302	Katie Derham presents a recent concert from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Munich with guest conductor Alan Gilbert, who opened the programme with a work by his contemporary American compatriot. Rouse says he uses the title Rapture to convey a sense of spiritual bliss, religious or otherwise. 2pm: Christopher Rouse: Rapture 2:15pm: Mozart: Piano concerto no.24 in C minor, K.491 Lars Vogt (piano) 2.45pm: Nielsen Symphony no.3, op.27 (Sinfonia espansiva) Christina Landshamer (soprano) Michael Nagy (baritone) conductor Alan Gilbert. Katie Derham presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in C Rouse, Mozart and Nielsen
03		20170208	Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brahms's Tragic Overture and Reger's Requiem after Hebbel, with baritone Michael Volle. Also today, the Bavarian Radio Chorus directed by Howard Arman in Gabriel Jackson's The Armed Man and Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) by Schoenberg. The afternoon ends with the BRSO performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto with soloist Ilya Gringolts, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens. 2.pm: Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81 Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor 2.15pm Reger: Requiem, Op 144b Michael Volle, baritone 2.30pm Gabriel Jackson: The Armed Man Howard Arman, director 2.40pm Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13 2.50pm Ligeti: Violin Concerto Ilya Gringolts, violin Peter Rundel, conductor. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Brahms, Reger, Jackson, Schoenberg and Ligeti.
03	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	20130508	Britten: War Requiem To mark VE day, a concert in which the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is joined by an American soprano, an English tenor and a German baritone to perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. It was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century building was bombed during World War II. Britten composed the work in 1961-2, and interweaves the words of the Requiem mass with nine poems by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. This performance given in Munich, itself devastated during the war was warmly received by a capacity audience who showed their appreciation for what proved to be a memorable event of reconciliation rather than a mere concert. Presented by Penny Gore Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 Emily Magee (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Christian Gerhaher (baritone) T怀lz Boys' Choir and Bavarian Radio Choir Mariss Jansons (conductor). To mark VE day, Penny Gore presents the Bavarian RSO and soloists in Britten's War Requiem
03	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	20180613	Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons in music by Richard Strauss, including the epic tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and the merry pranks of Till Eulenspiegel. Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 Burlesque in D minor, AV 85, for piano and orchestra Daniil Trifonov, piano Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28 Conductor Mariss Jansons. Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss.
04		20100325	The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Sch怀nberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.30pm Dvorak: Violin Concerto Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Colin Davis (conductor) 3.00pm Schubert: Mass No.6 in E Flat Christiane Oelze, soprano Elisabeth von Magnus, contralto Werner Güra, tenor Markus Sch䀀fer, tenor Andreas H怀rl, bass Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Daniel Harding (conductor) 4.15pm Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor Mariss Jansons (conductor). Penny Gore presents the BRSO in music by Lutoslawski, Dvorak, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.
04		20160304	Katie Derham presents the final selection this week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The esteemed conductor Riccardo Muti takes the helm for Schubert and Cherubini's Mass in A, composed in 1825 for the coronation of Charles X in France. 2pm: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in C sharp minor, S.244/2 conductor Mariss Jansons 2.10pm: Telemann: Ein Jammerton, ein schluchzend Ach, TWV 1:424 Anna Prohaska (soprano) Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2:20pm: Reinhard Keiser: Bertrubter Geist (from 'Die Verbindung des grossen Hercules mit der schonen Hebe') 2:30pm: Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur Dich hab, BuxWV 38 2.35pm: Schubert: Symphony no.4 in C minor (Tragic) D.417 3.20pm: Cherubini: Mass in A Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conductor Riccardo Muti. Performances of Liszt, Telemann, Reinhard Keiser, Buxtehude, Schubert and Cherubini.
04		20170210	Closing a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katie Derham introduces an afternoon with Brahms's Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), with the ensemble, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens, joined by the Bavarian Radio Chorus. It's followed by another concert with the orchestra conducted this time by Emilio Pomarico performing the world premiere of the Accordion Concerto by Georges Aperghis, as well as Stefan Wolpe's First Symphony. Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons has the last word, conducting Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances. 2pm: Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), Op 54 Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor 2.15pm: Georges Aperghis: Accordion Concerto (World Premiere) Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion Emilio Pomarico, conductor 2.45pm: Wolpe: Symphony No 1 3.15pm: Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano Mariss Janssons, conductor 3.50pm: Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45 Mariss Janssons, conductor. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Brahms, Aperghis, Wolpe, Mahler and Rachmaninov.
04		20180615	Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Schumann's Third Symphony, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and Mariss Jansons conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. And the Bavarian Radio Chorus performs The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Bo Holten which sets poems by William Blake including the Sick Rose and the Tyger. Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish') Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Magdalena Koenက, mezzo-soprano Stuart Skelton, tenor Conductor Sir Simon Rattle c. 3.40 pm Bo Holten: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Director Peter Dijkstra c. 4.05 pm Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Conductor Mariss Jansons. Kate Molleson with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and music by Mahler and Schumann.
04	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra	20130510	Presented by Penny Gore A week of programmes featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to an end with two seventh symphonies, written nearly 150 years apart. They frame a concerto by Shostakovich - a piano concerto in all but name - and Haydn's 'Mass for troubled times' which illustrates the rather different reaction of its composer to the advance of Napoleon than the Eroica Symphony we heard on Tuesday. In 1945 Hartmann was one of the few creative people in Bavaria unblemished by association with the Nazi regime and was instrumental in rebuilding cultural life. He founded the Musica Viva concert series which championed music by young, hitherto unknown composers. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra continues the series to this day, and a recent concert included this performance of Hartmann's Seventh Symphony. Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92 Bavarian RSO, Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.45pm Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, Op.35 Yefim Bronfman, piano Hannes L䀀ubin, trumpet 3.15pm Haydn Mass No. 11 in D minor, Hob. XXII/11 ('Nelson Mass') Julia Kleiter, soprano Katija Dragojevic, mezzo-soprano Mark Padmore, tenor Gerald Finley, bass-baritone Bavarian Radio Chorus Bavarian RSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor) 3.55pm Hartmann Symphony No. 7 (1958) Bavarian RSO, Emilio Pomarico (conductor). Penny Gore presents the last of our Afternoons with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
05		20100326	The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of Europe's leading ensembles and is able to attract the finest conductors and soloists. In this week of programmes, recorded at public concerts and mostly given in the orchestra's home city of Munich, we'll be hearing several large-scale choral works including Schönberg's epic Gurrelieder, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Schubert's final setting of the Mass. There are also two choral symphonies - Stravinsky's moving Symphony of Psalms and, rounding the week off, Beethoven's magnificent final symphony - the 9th. Another great 9th symphony also appears on the week's schedule, the unfinished epic by Bruckner. The conductor who most frequently appears during the week is Mariss Jansons, one of the world's finest maestros and now the BRSO's Chief Conductor. He shares the rostrum with, among others, the young British conductor Daniel Harding and the veteran Herbert Blomstedt from Sweden. All in all it is a week of inspiring music-making from a wonderful orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. Haydn: Harmoniemesse Malin Hartelius, soprano Judith Schmid, contralto Kurt Streit, tenor David Wilson-Johnson, bass Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Mariss Jansons (conductor) 2.45pm Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Cornelius Meister (conductor) 3.15pm Kancheli: Dixi (World Premiere) 3.50pm Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (Choral) Luba Orgonásová, soprano Lioba Braun, contralto Christian Elsner, tenor Gerald Finley, bass Mariss Jansons (conductor). Penny Gore presents the BRSO in music by Haydn, Mussorgsky, Kancheli and Beethoven.