Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Monday - First Night of the BBC Proms 2023

Fiona Talkington - Afternoon Concert

Monday - First Night of the BBC Proms 2023

BBC Proms 2023

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Proms 2023, Monday - First Night of the BBC Proms 2023

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Britten.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Britten, Grieg's Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, and a new piece by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.

Presented by Fiona Talkington, including another chance to hear the First Night of the Proms, as Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Britten, Grieg's Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, and a new piece by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.

Also, throughout the week we'll hear from a concert of baroque arias with the soprano Dorothee Mields and period ensemble Concerto De’ Cavalieri, recorded at the recent Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. 

Including:

Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor, 2nd movement
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

Handel: Una schiera di piaceri, from 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46'
A Scarlatti: Siamo in contesa la bellezza ed'io, cantata
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Concerto De’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

c. 2.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Friday 14th July)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny

Sibelius: Finlandia 
Bohdana Frolyak: Let There Be Light (BBC commission: world premiere)
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor 

Paul Lewis, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

c. 3.10pm 
Proms Artist Choice - Paul Lewis
Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Nils Lindberg: Rosetti Suite (Fly Away; Remember; Echo)
WDR Chorus
Stefan Parkman, conductor

c. 3.25pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Friday 14th July)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny

Sibelius: Snöfrid 
Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

c. 4.10pm
Bassani: Per aura breve, per fragil palm, from the oratorio 'La Morte delusa'
JS Bach: Welt, deine Lust ist Last, from 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161, cantata'
Vivaldi: Transit aetas, volant anni, from 'Juditha Triumphans, RV 644, oratorio'
Perti: Instabilità della vita humana, from 'Cantata morale, op. 1/7 '
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Concerto De’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Glinka: Souvenir d'une nuit d'ete a Madrid (Spanish overture no.2)
BBC Philhamonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023

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Every day during the summer, Afternoon Concert includes performances from a recent Prom.

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