Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Munich

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Munich

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Munich

Lahav Shani conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

Lahav Shani conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in Munich, plus music by Mozart, Lysenko, Sibelius, Walton, Georg Muffat, Marie Jaell, Philip Glass and Gabriel Jackson.

Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava.  Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there’s Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus we celebrate Philip Glass’s 85th birthday with pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, and Gabriel Jackson’s 60th birthday with The BBC Singers.  And there’s music by Mozart, Lysenko, Sibelius, Walton, Georg Muffat and Marie Jaell too.

Mykola Lysenko - Overture: Taras Bulba
Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra
Hobart Earle (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364 (2nd mvt: Andante)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Vladimir Babeshko (viola)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Bavarian State Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor)

Thomas Tallis  - Videte miraculum
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c. 2.32pm
Marie Jaell - Cello Concerto in F
Raphael Perraud (cello)
Orchestre Nationale de France
Debora Waldman (conductor)

3pm
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Bavarian State Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor)

Georg Muffat - Violin Sonata in D 
Chouchane Siranossian (violin)
Jonathan Pesek (cello)
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

c. 3.42pm
Philip Glass - Four Movements for Two Pianos (Part IV)
Dennis Russell Davies / Maki Namekawa (pianos)

3.50
Robert White - Lamentations for 5 voices (Part I)
Stile Antico

Alfonso X of Castile - Santa Maria, strela do dia [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.100]
Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (director)

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c. 4.33pm
Gabriel Jackson - Luce coruscas
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

William Walton - Portsmouth Point
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

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