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Afternoon Concert: Thursday - Opera Gala

Ian Skelly - Afternoon Concert

Thursday - Opera Gala

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Thursday - Opera Gala

This week, Afternoon Concert features French orchestras. Today, it's the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus in an opera gala given at the Opera Garnier in Paris.

This week Afternoon Concert features French Orchestras - today it's the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus in an opera gala given at the Opera Garnier in Paris conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. A starry line-up of soloists sing excerpts from Carmen, Falstaff and Der Rosenkavalier. Plus highlights of a recital Yulianna Avdeeva gave at La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival, with music by Bach and Shostakovich.

Presented by Ian Skelly.
 
2pm
Wagner Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

c.2.10
Bach English Suite no.2 in A minor, BWV.807
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
 
c.2.30
Elgar String Quartet Op.83
Escher Quartet

c.3pm 
Bizet Carmen - extracts (Habanera, Flower Song, Les voici! Voici la quadrille) 
Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano) 
Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Paris Opera Chorus 
Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

c.3.40
Strauss Final Scene of Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

c.3.55
Verdi Alto là! Chi va là from Falstaff
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur (mezzo-soprano)
Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano)
Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Tobias Westman (tenor)
Kiup Lee (tenor)
Timothée Varon (baritone)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Aaron Pendleton (bass)
Paris Opera Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

c.4.15
Bach Toccata in D, BWV.912
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

c.4.25
Chopin Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor, Op.11 – 1st movt 
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor)

c.4.50
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D, No. 5 from '24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87'
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

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