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Afternoon Concert: Chopin and His Influences: Episode 2

Episode 2

Chopin and His Influences

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Chopin and His Influences, Episode 2

Jonathan Swain presents music by Mendelssohn, Dobrzynski, Chopin and Debussy.

Jonathan Swain presents music by Chopin and some others influenced by him. Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1. Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sebastien. Plus Mendelssohn, Dobrzynski.

Today's Afternoon Performance continues the week's focus on Chopin, with a concert given as part of last year's Chopin and his Europe Festival. Howard Shelley directs the Sinfonia Varsovia and is the pianist in a piano concerto by Dobrzynski, one of Chopin's classmates at the Warsaw Conservatory. Then Jan Lisiecki joins the orchestra as soloist in music by Chopin himself; his Piano Concerto no.1. Plus a chance to hear incidental music by a composer who was very much influenced by Chopin, Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien. 

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

2pm
Dobrzynski: 
Piano Concerto in A flat major Op. 2
Howard Shelley (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia

2.35pm
Mendelssohn: Symphony no.4 in A major 'Italian'
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley (conductor)

3.05pm
Chopin: Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley (conductor)

3.50pm
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien
Isabelle Huppert (narrator)
Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano)
Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano)
Christine Knorren (mezzo-soprano)
Radio France Chorus
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Chopin and His Influences

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Series featuring music by Chopin and some other composers who were influenced by him

Series featuring music by Chopin as well as some other composers who were influenced by him. With highlights from the 2009 Chopin and his Europe Festival

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