Afternoon Concert

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Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Mendelssohn's Fifth.

Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony. Plus music by Bellini, Diepenbrock, Hildegard of Bingen and Haydn.

Penny Gore continues her focus on Felix Mendelsohn's symphonies with a performance of No 5, the 'Reformation' Symphony, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andres Orozco-Estrada. 

The Ulster Orchestra play Alphons Diepenbrock's Elektra Suite, and JS Bach's Cantata 102 comes from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Soprano Camilla Nylund sings Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Orchestre National de France, and the Belinfante Quartet perform music by Hildegard of Bingen and Henriette Bosmans.

And as part of this week's series of short pieces by living composers performed by BBC orchestras, the Ulster Orchestra present music by Calliope Tsoupaki and Charlotte Bray.

Including:

Bellini: Capuleti ed i Montecchi - overture
BBC Concert Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Alphons Diepenbrock: Elektra suite
Charlotte Bray: When Icebergs Dance Away
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen, conductor

JS Bach: Herr, meine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, Cantata BWV 102 
Terry Wey, alto
Patrick Grahl, tenor
Tobias Berndt, bass
Windsbach Boys' Choir 
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Martin Lehmann, conductor

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, ‘Reformation’
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Hildegard of Bingen: O Virtus Sapientiae
Henriette Bosmans: String Quartet
Belinfante Quartet

Wagner: Overture to 'Tannhäuser'
Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV 150
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Orchestre National de France
Karina Canellakis, conductor

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:39 
Christian Zacharias, piano

Calliope Tsoupaki: Maestrale 2011
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen, conductor

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