Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers

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Tuesday - BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers

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The BBC Philharmonic perform Vivaldi in Leeds, and the BBC Singers go on tour in Denmark.

The BBC Philharmonic perform Vivaldi in Leeds, and the BBC Singers go on tour in Denmark with music for Advent.

This week features live and recent concert performances by the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes the BBC Philharmonic recorded last week at Leeds College of Music with a programme including Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Then to the BBC Singers with a concert which combines Bach chorales with contemporary vocal music. 

Presented by Tom McKinney

Including: 

Rachmaninov: 6 Duets Op.11 for piano 4 hands
Zhang Zuo & Louis Schwizgebel (piano duo)

c.2.30pm
BBC Philharmonic, recorded in November at the Leeds College of Music

Hildegard of Bingen (arr. Tom Coult and Daniel Pioro): O ecclesia, for violin and string orchestra 
Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere 
Caroline Shaw: Punctum 
Vivaldi: Four seasons 
BBC Philharmonic 
Daniel Pioro (violin/director)

c.3.45pm
BBC Singers, recorded this month in Copenhagen

Ed Frazier Davis: O Magnum Mysterium
JS Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 
Paul Manz: E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come
Emily Hazrati: Drop down ye heavens from above
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A New Work is Come on Hand
JS Bach: Gottes Sohn ist kommen, BWV 600
Jan Sandström: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Brahms: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Hilary Campbell: Ave Maria
JS Bach: Christum wir sollen loben schon,  BWV 611
Lucy Walker: There is no rose
William Harris: Faire is the heaven
JS Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 700 (C Major)
BBC Singers
Stephen Farr (organ)
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

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