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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Stravinsky - Persephone

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24/09/2015

Stravinsky - Persephone

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Stravinsky's Persephone in a performance from Aix-en-Provence, plus music from the BBC SSO

Ian Skelly presents a performance of Stravinsky's melodrama Persephone given at the 2014 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Plus the BBC SSO performing music by Rota and Sibelius.

Ian Skelly presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee - Stravinsky's melodrama Perséphone in a performance from the Aix-en-Provence Festival. The story of the Greek goddess is told through a speaker, a tenor, chorus and dancers. Then to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and a concert it gave in Glasgow City Halls in October. Leonard Elschenbroich is soloist in Nino Rota's Cello Concerto, and the Orchestra take centre stage in Sibelius's 5th Symphony.

2pm
Stravinsky: Perséphone
Perséphone... Dominique Blanc (actor)
Eumolpe.... Paul Groves (tenor)
Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra National de Lyon
Teodor Currentzis (conductor)


2.55pm
Peteris Vasks: Credo
Rota: Cello Concerto No 2

3.50pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major Op.82
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ainars Rubikis (conductor).

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