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Afternoon Concert: Monday - Bach's Magnificat

Fiona Talkington - Afternoon Concert

Monday - Bach's Magnificat

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Monday - Bach's Magnificat

Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform Bach's Magnificat.

Fiona Talkington begins a new week of recordings from around Europe with Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performing Bach’s Magnificat.

Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of recordings from around Europe.

A new week of afternoon concert begins with a performance of Bach’s Magnificat, pairing the Belgian choir Vox Luminis and its director Lionel Meunier with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Fiona also has a new recording of the BBC Philharmonic with John Wilson and horn player Martin Owen, playing Richard Strauss’s first Horn concerto. Georgian virtuoso pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Haydn, and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra returns with Dvorak’s Rococo-inspired Wind serenade. And throughout the week there’ll be a chance to hear music by lesser-known Dutch composers, starting today with Henriëtte Bosmans.

Including:

Chopin: Larghetto (Piano concerto No 2)
Alexander Gadjiev, piano
Consone Quartet
Jan Zahourek, double bass

Richard Strauss: Horn concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 11
Martin Owen (French horn)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

Henriëtte Bosmans: Calm Night
Lucia Swarts, cello
Elena Malinova, piano

Joseph Haydn: Keyboard sonata No 20 in C minor
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

c. 3pm
J S Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243a
Vox Luminis
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Lionel Meunier, conductor

Ravel: Introduction and allegro
LUDWIG
Barbara Hannigan, conductor

c. 4pm
Dvořák: Serenade in D minor, Op 44
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Anne Katherina Schreiber, conductor

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