Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Thursday - Sol Gabetta plays Dvorak

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Thursday - Sol Gabetta plays Dvorak

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Sol Gabetta performs Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor.

Andris Nelsons conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Sol Gabetta in a performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor. Introduced by Penny Gore.

Penny Gore introduces recordings from around Europe and from the BBC’s performing groups.

Today Penny has a recording of Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta playing Dvorak’s Cello concerto, written while the composer was living in New York, and considered one of the all-time great cello concertos. Sol is joined by one of Europe’s great orchestras: The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, with conductor Andris Nelsons. Also on the programme, an all-star line-up plays Robert Schumann’s Concertstuck for 4 horns with the BBC Philharmonic, and the Orchestre de Paris, with Klaus Mäkelä, performs the music of the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. And there’s a rare chance to hear music by the Dutch composer Leo Smit, who was killed at the Sobibor concentration camp in World War 2. 

Including:

Robert Schumann: Concertstuck for 4 horns in F major, Op 86
Martin Owen, Chris Parks, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Sarah Willis, French horns
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor

Leo Smit: String quartet (unfinished)
Jacobien Rozemond, Marijke van Kooten, Edith van Moergastel, Doris Hochscheid

Jimmy López Bellido: Aino
Orchestre de Paris
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

c. 3pm
Dvorak: Cello concerto in B minor, Op 104
Sol Gabetta, cello
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor

c. 4pm
Bruckner: Te Deum
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis
Orchestre de Paris
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Chopin: Polonaise fantasie in A flat major, Op 61
Alexander Gadjiev, piano

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