Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto

BBC Concert Orchestra and Rupert Marshall Luck perform Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.

BBC Concert Orchestra and Rupert Marshall Luck perform Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto, plus Ukrainian folk song from the Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio.

Penny Gore presents, with a 3pm highlight of the BBC Concert Orchestra joined by violinist Rupert Marshall Luck for a performance of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Violin Concerto. Plus singer Ruslana Lotsman and the Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio  perform more traditional Ukrainian folk songs.

Including:
2pm
Nigel Hess: A Celebration Overture
BBC Concert Orchestra
Richard Balcombe

Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben? 
BBC Singers 
Benjamin Goodson

Mikhail Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor arr. for orchestra
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra 
Paavo Jarvi 

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
Timothy Ridout 
James Baillieu

Traditional Ukrainian/Bohdan Kryvopust: Heaven and earth
Ruslana Lotsman (singer) 
Children’s Choir of Ukrainian Radio 
Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio 
Mykhailo Pikulskyi (conductor)

3pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor
BBC Concert Orchestra 
Rupert Marshall Luck (violin) / Martin Yates

Traditional Ukrainian/Bohdan Kryvopust: Oh the Steep Hill Hums 
Ruslana Lotsman (singer) 
Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio 
Mykhailo Pikulskyi

Emmanuel Chabrier/Charles Koechlin arr: Bourree fantasque, arr. for orchestra 
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Heinz Holliger

Toivo Kuula: Prelude and fugue Op.10 for orchestra 
BBC Concert Orchestra 
Martyn Brabbins 

Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen: Blue White Gold 
Dreamers' Circus (trio) 
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra 
Christian Øland (conductor)

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