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Performance on 3: BBC SSO - Bach, Bruckner

BBC SSO - Bach, Bruckner

09/02/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, BBC SSO - Bach, Bruckner

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Bach and Bruckner.

Soloist Daniel Hope performs and directs the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bach's A minor Violin Concerto, before Ilan Volkov leads the orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No 5.

Presented by Martin Handley 

The devotional quality of Bruckner's symphonies has led some to see them as 'cathedrals in sound'. But that's only half the story. At least as important as their unique atmosphere of spiritual exaltation is their sense of a dramatic struggle to overcome the pain and frustration of life. Bruckner's Fifth Symphony is one of his most complex works - a huge edifice that poses a real challenge to both orchestra and conductor. Violinist Daniel Hope, one of today's most extraordinary, multi-faceted artists, prefaces this monumental symphony with the intimacy of a concerto by JS Bach.

Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 
Bruckner: Symphony No.5 

Daniel Hope director/violin 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
conductor Ilan Volkov 

Followed by part of a recital recorded last November at Wigmore Hall, London:

Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.24

Gerald Finley (baritone)
Julius Drake (piano).

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