Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Thursday - Yu Kosuge plays Ravel

Ian Skelly

Thursday - Yu Kosuge plays Ravel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Thursday - Yu Kosuge plays Ravel

Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G

Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Plus music by Elizabeth Maconchy and Piazzolla.

Presented by Ian Skelly. In today's 3pm concerto, the Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge joins the BBC SO for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. The orchestra also play music by Piazzolla and Schumann's "Rhenish" symphony. Plus Scarlatti and Sarri from Vienna, and Bach from Melk, and David Hill conducts the BBC Singers in new studio recording of music by Elizabeth Maconchy.

Mel Bonis: Suite Orientale 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

A Scarlatti  Sinfonia Avanti la Serenata 'Clori, Dorino e Amore'
Sarri: Recorder Concerto in A minor 
Ensemble 1700
Dorothee Oberlinger, (recorder and direction) 

Maconchy: Two Epitaphs - Our life is nothing by a winter’s day ; As the tree falls  
BBC Singers 
David Hill (conductor) 

Piazzolla: Tangazo - variaciones sobra Buenos Aires 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c. 3pm 
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G  
Yu Kosuge (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Petr Wajsar: Prague Metamorphoses
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Tomas Brauner (conductor)
Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague 7/5/21

JS Bach: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, cantata
Aldona Bartnik sop
Francesca Cassinari sop
Nausicaa Nisati contralto
Raffaele Giordani tenor
Salvo Vitale bass
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish’ in Eb Op.97 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

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