Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Performances from Poland (4/4)

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Performances from Poland (4/4)

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Fiona Talkington introduces a Mozart-fest from Poland

Fiona Talkington introduces a Mozart-fest from Poland, plus music by Bacewicz and Mendelssohn.

Continuing this week of afternoon performances from Poland, Fiona Talkington introduces Mozart's choral music from Gdansk, and his fourth violin concerto with Agata Szymczewska. Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is conducted by Krzysztof Urbanski, and there's more South American music from the Polish Radio Orchestra and Christian Vasquez.

Including:

2pm
Mozart: Regina coeli, K. 276/321b
Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis
Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin
Jan Lukaszewski (conductor)

c.2.05pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 (with soloist Agata Szymczewska)
c.2.30pm
Dvorak: Serenade in D minor, op. 44 
Polish Radio Orchestra
Michal Klauza (conductor)

c.2.55pm
Aldemaro: Fuga con pajarillo 
Inocente Carreno: Margaretina. Glosa sinfonica
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw
Christian Vasquez (conductor)

c.3.20pm
Mozart: Missa solemnis in C, K. 337 
Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 
Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis
Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin
Jan Lukaszewski (conductor)

c.3.45pm
Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1 
Silesian String Quartet 
Piotr Salajczyk (piano)

c.4.15pm
Bacewicz: Scherzo for Piano (arr. Urbanski)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, op. 90 ('Italian') 
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

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