Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - Sibelius Violin Concerto

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Tuesday - Sibelius Violin Concerto

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Tuesday - Sibelius Violin Concerto

Bonsori Kim plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto, plus music by Zelenka, Mozart and Delius.

Bonsori Kim plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, plus music by Zelenka, Mozart and Delius.

Penny Gore with more recordings from BBC ensembles and from across Europe

Today Sibelius' Violin Concerto is played by Bonsori Kim with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also, we hear the same German orchestra in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, under the baton of Karina Canellakis, and a concert version of Delius' La Calinda with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Riccardo Minasi conducts Hasse, the BBC Philharmonic plays Debussy and there's more music for Holy Week to mark the 400th anniversary of William Byrd.

Including:

Delius: La Calinda [concert version] 
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Zelenka: Reponsorium 'Velum templi scissum est'
Myriam Arbouz, soprano
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Benoît Arnould, baritone
Le Banquet Céleste
Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

Mozart: Nine Variations in C on 'Lison dormait', K. 264
Elisso Virsaladze, piano

Hasse: Sinfonia in D, op. 3/3 
La Scintilla Ochestra
Riccardo Minasi

Debussy: Rondes de Printemps, from Images 
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor

3pm 
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47
Bonsori Kim, violin
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Byrd: Circumdederunt me dolores mortis, for 5 voices 
Contrapunctus
Owen Rees, director

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra 
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor

Zelenka: Responsory 'Tristis est anima mea'
Myriam Arbouz, soprano
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Benoît Arnould, baritone
Le Banquet Céleste
Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

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