Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Monday - Haydn's Oxford Symphony

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Monday - Haydn's Oxford Symphony

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John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's 'Oxford' Symphony and Stravinsky, plus Tchaikovsky from the BBC Philharmonic.

Presented by Fiona Talkington, with live concert recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe.

As Radio 3 celebrates his 80th birthday this week, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts a symphony each day at 3pm. Today, Gardiner leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's 92nd, popularly known as the 'Oxford' symphony. From the same concert at the 2016 Mozart Festival Würzburg, we also hear Stravinsky's 'Dumbarton Oaks' Concerto. Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, the French group Ensemble Les Surprises perform music by Henry Desmarets, and the young Bulgarian percussionist Vivi Vassileva plays Villa-Lobos and JS Bach in arrangements for vibraphone and guitar.

Including:

c.2:10pm
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Overture, Op.67
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Villa-Lobos/Lucas Campara Diniz: Excerpts from 'Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas'
Viviane Vassileva, vibraphone
Lucas Campara Diniz, guitar

Desmarets: Usquequo Domine
Ensemble Les Surprises 
Louis Noel Bestion de Camboulas, conductor

3pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, Hob. I:92 ('Oxford')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Ravel: Boléro
SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Teodor Currentzis, conductor

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat ('Dumbarton Oaks')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

JS Bach/Viviane Vassileva: Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Viviane Vassileva, vibraphone
Lucas Campara Diniz, guitar

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