Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Thursday - Live with the BBC Philharmonic

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Thursday - Live with the BBC Philharmonic

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Robert Laidlow curates a concert of music by Herschel, Missy Mazzoli and Britten.

Featuring a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, curated by the composer Robert Laidlow and conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni.

Penny Gore presents a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and from around Europe. 

Today features a live performance by the BBC Philharmonic from the orchestra's home in Salford. Tom McKinney leads the star-gazing, with a space-inspired sequence of music curated by the composer Robert Laidlow and conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Music by Laidlow himself links works by composers as diverse as astronomer William Herschel, Missy Mazzoli and Benjamin Britten. 

Then back to London with Penny and more from Jordi Savall's eightieth birthday concert celebrating the fusion between east and west, and Mozart's evergreen Clarinet Concerto.  

Including:

Weber: Oberon Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Rossini Introduction, theme and variations in C for clarinet and orchestra
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Salzburg Camerata
Gregory Ahss (conductor)

2.30pm LIVE from MediaCity UK, Salford - Presented by Tom McKinney
Herschel: Symphony No 8 in C minor (first movement)
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Robert Laidlow: Warp 
Britten: Peter Grimes - Now the Great Bear and Pleiades 
Robert Laidlow: Gravity (Spheres)
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Sonnet 
Emily Howard: sphere
Herschel: Symphony No 8 in C minor (second and third movements)
Ben Hulett (tenor)
Joseph Havlat (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

c.3.35 - with Penny Gore
Jordi Savall East meets West – A dialogue of the souls – excerpt 
Jordi Savall (rebab, soprano viola da gamba and rabel)
Pedro Estevan (percussion)

c.4.pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Jorg Widmann (conductor/conductor)
Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

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