Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Wednesday - Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Wednesday - Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Wednesday - Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony

The German Chamber Philharmonic play Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3, plus Bach in Gothenburg.

Göteborg Baroque perform Bach cantatas, the German Chamber Philharmonic perform Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony, and Rachel Podger plays Mozart.

Penny Gore introduces music from BBC ensembles and other groups from around Europe, including Bach's cantatas performed by Göteborg Baroque. Also today, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 with Jérémie Rhorer and the German Chamber Philharmonic, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1, with Rachel Podger as soloist, and Paul Ben-Haim's Fanfare for Israel with the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Paul Ben-Haim: Fanfare for Israel
BBC Philharmonic 
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

JS Bach: excerpts from cantatas - 
Lob sei Gott, from 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62'
Sofia Niklasson, soprano; Amanda Flodin, alto; Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor; Karl Peter Eriksson, bass	 

Willkommen, werter Schatz, from ‚Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36‘ 
Karl Peter Eriksson, bass

Tausendfaches Unglück, Schrecken, from 'Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143'
Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor

Gott hat alles wohlgemacht, from 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35'
Amanda Flodin, alto

Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, from 'Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal BWV 146' 
Sofia Niklasson, soprano; Amanda Flodin, alto; Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor; Karl Peter Eriksson, bass	

Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, claviorgan, leader

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K 207 
Rachel Podger, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

R. Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen, Op. 132
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
Eivind Ringstad, viola
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

c.3pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 3 in D major, Op. 29
German Chamber Philharmonic
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor

Saint-Saens: Fantaisie No. 2 in D flat, op. 101 
Nathan Laube, organ

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