Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Thursday - Wagner and Weinberg

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Thursday - Wagner and Weinberg

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Thursday - Wagner and Weinberg

Alain Altinoglu conducts excerpts from Wagner's Ring Cycle in Frankfurt.

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra plays excerpts from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, plus Dvorak from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Bach from Ton Koopman.

Ian Skelly continues this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and an orchestral suite by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays a selection of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, and Voces8 sing music by Rheinberger and Schutz. Ton Koopman plays organ music by Bach and Buxtehude in Copenhagen, and Toru Takemitsu's Twill by twilight is played by the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Bantock: The Frogs
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Rheinberger: Kyrie (Mass in E flat, Op.109)
Voces8

Takemitsu: Twill by twilight
BBC Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen (conductor)

Brahms: Ophelia Lieder
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Kaspar Zehnder (flute) / Andrew Marriner (clarinet) / Giovanni Guzzo & Rahel Maria Rilling (violins) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / David Adorjan (cello) / Sir Simon Rattle (piano)

JS Bach: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV.654
Ton Koopman (organ)

Maconchy: Proud Thames
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

John Adams: Short ride in a fast machine	
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor)

3pm
Wagner: Excerpts from The Ring 
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

c. 3.40pm
Mozart: Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia, K.582
Lydia Teuscher (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Schutz: Selig sind die Toten [Geistliche Chormusik, SWF.391]
Voces8

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Buxtehude: Fuga in C 
Ton Koopman (organ)

Rebecca Clarke: Passacaglia on an old English tune for viola & piano
Philip Dukes (viola)
Sophia Rahman (piano)

c. 4.30pm
Weinberg: Suite for orchestra
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

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