Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Tuesday - BBC Proms - Elena Urioste and BBC NOW

Fiona Talkington - Afternoon Concert

Tuesday - BBC Proms - Elena Urioste and BBC NOW

BBC Proms 2023

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Elena Urioste plays Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto at the BBC Proms.

Elena Urioste plays Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto at the BBC Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Presented by Fiona Talkington, including another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's recent Prom with conductor Tadaaki Otaka, featuring the violinist Elena Urioste in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto, and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Plus more from the Schwetzingen Festival, and music by Silvestrov and Zemlinsky. 

Including:

Coleridge-Taylor: African suite for orchestra op.35: IV. African Dance (arr. Chris Cameron)
Chineke!
Kevin John Edusei, conductor

Shostakovich: Introduction, from 'The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a'
Kian Soltani (cello)
Six cellos of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Praetorius: Gloria tibi Domine
Chorwerk Ruhr
Florian Helgath, director
Capella de la Torre
Katharina Bauml, director

c.2.25pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Wesnesday 19th July)
Presented by Penny Gore

Rachmaninov orch. Respighi: Five Études-tableaux 
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor 

Elena Urioste, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor 

c.3.20pm
Proms Artist Choice 

Gallus: Jerusalem, gaude gaudio magno
Chorwerk Ruhr
Florian Helgath, director
Capella de la Torre
Katharina Bauml, director

c.3.35pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Wednesday 19th July)
Presented by Penny Gore

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor 

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor 

c.4.10pm
Silvestrov: Abendserenade
European Union Youth Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Bianciardi: Ave gratia plena
Chorwerk Ruhr
Florian Helgath, director
Capella de la Torre
Katharina Bauml, director

Phillys Tate: London Fields; no.3 - Springtime in Kew
London Philharmonic
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

c.4.35pm
Zemlinsky: Psalm 23 Op.14 for chorus and orchestra
Tenebrae
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nigel Short, 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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