Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Vilde Frang plays Robert Schumann

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Vilde Frang plays Robert Schumann

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Vilde Frang plays Robert Schumann

Vilde Frang performs Schumann's Violin Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Vilde Frang and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor.

Penny Gore presents an afternoon of live concert and studio recordings from BBC ensembles and orchestras around Europe.

Today, Vilde Frang joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, and from the same concert in Würzburg the orchestra also play Mozart's 47th Symphony. We hear performances from Ensemble Céladon at the RheinVokal Festival in Andernach, the Berlin Philharmonic play music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and a new recording of Rachmaninov's symphonic poem Isle of the Dead from John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Handel: Sinfonia to Agrippina
Il Pomo d’Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

Raimon de Miraval: Cel que no volh auzir chanços
Ensemble Céladon
Paulin Bundgen, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No. 47 in D, K. 97
Scottish Chamber Orchestra 
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

c.2.40pm
Wagner: Karfreitagszauber, from 'Parsifal'
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Petrenko, conductor

Laura Mvula (arr. Eric Whitacre/Christopher Bruerton): Father, Father
The King's Singers

c.3pm
R Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23
Vilde Frang, violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra 
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Kalenda maia 
Anon. In pro, Estampie 
Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios 
Gautier de Coincy Hui matin a l´ajournée 
Ensemble Céladon
Paulin Bundgen, conductor

c.3.55pm
Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor

R Strauss: Symphonic Fragment from Die Liebe der Danau
Berlin Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor

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