Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Monday - Sibelius's Second Symphony

Fiona Talkington - Afternoon Concert

Monday - Sibelius's Second Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Monday - Sibelius's Second Symphony

The BBC SSO perform Sibelius's Symphony No 2 and Strauss's Don Juan.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Sibelius's Symphony No 2 and Richard Strauss's Don Juan, plus Janacek's oratorio The Eternal Gospel from Radio France.

Fiona Talkington presents an afternoon of the best classical music in great performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and other BBC ensembles, plus concert performances from across Europe. 

The BBC Scottish feature in today's 3pm highlight, Sibelius's Symphony No.2 in a performance from Glasgow in March. The BBC Scottish also perform Beethoven's dramatic Coriolan overture and Richard Strauss's ebullient tone poem Don Juan, both conducted by Donald Runnicles. And, from Radio France, Janacek's oratorio The Eternal Gospel, based on a medieval legend in which an angel announces the coming of the Kingdom of Love on Earth to a Cistercian monk, Joachim of Flora.

Including: 

Beethoven: Coriolan – Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchetsra
Donald Runnicles (cond.)

Mozart: Martern aller Arten (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Regula Mühlemann (soprano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Tarmo Peltokoski (cond.)

Sibelius: Humouresques Nos.1, 5, 2
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
Aimo Pagin (piano)

c.2.30pm
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (cond.)

Bach: Goldberg Variations – Aria & Vars.1, 13, 7
Gambelin Duo 

3pm
Sibelius
Symphony No.2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Taavi Oramo (cond.)

Dobrinka Tabakova
Of the Sun Born
BBC Singers 
Grace Rossiter (cond.)

c4pm
Janacek: The Eternal Gospel
Katerina Knezikova (soprano)
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus 
Jakub Hrusa (cond.)

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