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Afternoon Concert: Chopin and His Influences: Episode 4

Episode 4

Chopin and His Influences

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Chopin and His Influences, Episode 4

Jonathan Swain presents music by Chopin, Schumann and Shostakovich.

Jonathan Swain with music by Chopin and others influenced by him. Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante. Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust. Plus Shostakovich.

This afternoon there's more from last year's 2009 Chopin and his Europe Festival; Emanuel Ax performs Chopin's Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante. Schumann was another composer who was very influenced by Chopin, and today there's a chance to hear his magnum opus, the Scenes from Goethe's Faust performed by Dietrich Henschel with the Berlin Academy for Early Music. 

Presented by Jonathan Swain.


2pm
Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante Op.22
Schubert: Impromptu D.935'3
Emanuel Ax (piano)

2.30pm
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Dietrich Henschel; Faust, Dr. Marianus, Pater Seraphicus (bass)
Marlis Petersen; Gretchen, Not, Una Poenitentium (soprano) 
Yorck Felix Speer; Mephistopheles, BÃ¶ser Geist, Pater Profundus (bass) 
Ruth Ziesak; Sorge, Magna Peccatrix (soprano) 
Gerhild Romberger; Mangel, Mater Gloriosa, Mulier Samaritana (alto) 
Christian Elsner; Ariel, Pater Ecstaticus (tenor) 
Sofi Lorentzen; Martha, Schuld, Maria Aegyptiaca (alto) 
RIAS Chamber Chorus 
Berlin Academy for Early Music
Hans-Christoph Rademann (director) 

4.20pm
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes
Alexei Volodin (piano).

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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