Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - Canellakis conducts Brahms

Tuesday - Canellakis conducts Brahms

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Karina Canellakis conducts the Orchestre Nationale de France in Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, plus Renaissance music from Catalonia, new music from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival and pieces by Dukas, Kodaly, Beethoven, Mahler and Britten.

Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Tom continues his focus on great Romantic symphonies this week with Brahms’s Fourth – Karina Canellakis conducts the Orchestre Nationale de France in a performance recorded in Saint-Denis in June. There's also Kodaly from The Ulster Orchestra, Renaissance music performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, new music by Peteris Vasks from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, all alongside music by Beethoven, Bach, Britten, Mahler and Rudolf Karel - his Nonet, composed in the concentration camp of Terezin. 

2pm
Paul Dukas – Fanfare from La Péri
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Zoltan Kodaly – Dances of Marosszèk
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Claudio Monteverdi – Lagrime d'amante [Madrigals', Book VI, SV.111]
Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya
Luís Vilamajó (conductor)

c. 2.30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven – Romance for violin and orchestra No.2 in F major, Op.50
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

JS Bach - Toccata in D, BWV.912
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

c. 3pm
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
Orchestre Nationale de France
Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Benjamin Britten - Russian Funeral March
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 4pm
Peteris Vasks - Cantabile
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

Frederic Chopin – Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9’1
Frederic Chopin – Nocturne in E flat, Op.9’2
Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Gustav Mahler - Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen / Das irdische Leben [Des Knaben Wunderhorn] 
Gustav Mahler - Ich atmet' einen linden Duft / Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [Rückert-Lieder]
Golda Schultz (soprano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Rudolf Karel – Nonet 
Gergely Bodoky (flute)
Viola Wilmsen (oboe)
Stephan Mörth (clarinet)
Karoline Zurl (bassoon)
Bora Demir (horn)
Marina Grauman (violin)
Annemarie Moorcroft (viola) 
Mischa Meyer (cello) 
Christine Felsch (double bass)


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