Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - Scheherazade

Ian Skelly

Tuesday - Scheherazade

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Tuesday - Scheherazade

Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on One Thousand and One Nights.

Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on One Thousand and One Nights, and concertos by Robert Schumann and Shostakovich.

Presented by Ian Skelly, with a selection of music for the afternoon from around Europe and from BBC ensembles, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Ana Sokolovic's spectacular Ringelspiel for orchestra. Marin Alsop conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade at 3pm, and the music of Robert Schumann features twice - the cello concerto in St Petersburg and the Italian soloist Enrico Dindo, and chamber music with the cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau at Romania's George Enescu Festival. Plus Steven Osborne playing Shostakovich with the Ulster Orchestra.

Including:

RR Bennett: A Farewell To Arms
BBC Singers
Jessica Cottis, conductor

Ana Sokolovic: Ringelspiel for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

R Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129
Enrico Dindo (cello)
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Termikanov, conductor

c.3pm 
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

R Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op. 70
Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, cello
Cyprien Katsaris, piano

Maconchy: Nocturne
Ulster Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni, conductor

c.4.20pm
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Steven Osborne, piano
Ulster Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni, conductor

JS Bach arr. Stevan Kovač Tikmajer Goldberg Variations with Schönberg in background 
JS Bach arr. Victor Kissine Aria, from 'Goldberg Variations, BWV 988' 
Kremerata Baltica/Lettonica
Gidon Kremer, conductor

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