Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - Gardiner conducts Berlioz

Fiona Talkington - Afternoon Concert

Tuesday - Gardiner conducts Berlioz

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John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, the American soprano Laura Aikin sings orchestral lieder by Dora Pejacevic and Latin motets by Bruckner.

Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of live recordings from BBC orchestras and recent concerts around Europe. 

Continuing this week's celebration of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's 80th birthday, today at 3pm we hear his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Also this afternoon, the American soprano Laura Aikin performs songs with orchestra by Dora Pejacevic, the Latvian Radio Choir sing a selection of Bruckner's Latin motets, and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Ernest Bloch's Hebraic Rhapsody, Schelomo.

Including:

Pejacevic: Overture in D minor, op. 49
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Shelley, conductor

c.2:10pm
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Albéniz: El Albaicín, from Iberia, Book 3
Yang Yang Cai, piano

Bloch: Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody)
Pablo Ferrandez, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Bruckner: Virga Jesse
Latvian Radio Choir

3pm
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Bruckner: Christus factus est
Latvian Radio Choir

Pejacevic: Three lieder with orchestra
Laura Aikin, soprano 
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Shelley, conductor

Dobrinka Tabakova: Organum Light
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emil Tabakov, conductor

Bruckner: Salvum fac populum tuum
Latvian Radio Choir

Stanford: Rondo in F major for cello and orchestra
Gemma Rosefield, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor

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