Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Schumann Cello Concerto

Schumann Cello Concerto

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Schumann Cello Concerto

Music by Schumann, Prokofiev and Smetana.

Fiona Talkington presents the Orchestre Consuelo and soloist Victor Julien-Laferrièrerin Schumann's Cello Concerto. And more from Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Fiona Talkington presents Afternoon Concert, featuring music from home and abroad. Today's programme features more from the Orchestre Consuelo in the 3 o'clock spot, with Schumann's Cello Concerto with Victor Julien-Laferrière as soloist and conductor.  There's more from Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival performing lesser known baroque composers, including today music by Andreas Scharmann and Christian Geist. Plus recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 

Presented by Fiona Talkington

c.2pm 
Haydn Baryton Trio No.4 in A major, Hob.XI:4
Esterhazy Ensemble

Prokofiev Symphony no.1 in D major, Op.25 ‘Classical’
Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra
Joana Mallwitz (conductor)
 
Andreas Scharmann Gedenke, Herr, wie es uns gehet
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Korngold Much Ado about Nothing
Gil Shaham (violin)
Andre Previn (piano)

Carwithen Travel Royal - suite from the music for the film
BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

c.3pm
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello) 
Orchestre Consuelo
Victor Julien-Laferrière (director) 

Christian Geist Die mit Tränen säen
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Sibelius En Saga, Op.9
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.4.15 
Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique (Op.3)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Corelli Sonata for violin and continuo (Op.5`2) in B flat major
Locatelli Trio

Smetana Ma vlast [My country] - cycle of symphonic poems: Vltava [Moldau]
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

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