Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Beethoven Symphony no.4

Beethoven Symphony no.4

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Music by Beethoven, Respighi and Mussorgsky.

Penny Gore presents the Orchestre Consuelo in Beethoven's Symphony no.4 conducted by Victor Julien-Laferrière. Plus more from Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Penny Gore 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 Beethoven's Symphony no.4 conducted by Victor Julien-Laferrière. And there's more from Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival performing lesser known baroque composers, including today music by Andreas Hammerschmidt and Johann Hermann Schein. Plus a new recording from the Ulster Orchestra of Rimsky-Korsakov's ever popular orchestration of Mussorgsky's A Night on Bare Mountain.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm 
Saint-Saens Allegro appassionato for cello & orchestra Op.43
Natalie Clein (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Andrew Manze (conductor)

Vivaldi Concerto for 13 instruments and orchestra (RV.558) in C major
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (conductor)

Andreas Hammerschmidt Der Tod ist verschlungen
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Respighi Fountains of Rome
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

Chopin Ballade for piano no. 1 (Op.23) in G minor
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Marais La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)

c.3pm
Beethoven Symphony no.4 in B flat major, Op.60 
Orchestre Consuelo
Victor Julien-Laferrière (conductor) 

Johann Hermann Schein Ich will schweigen
Johann Hermann Schein Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Victoria Poleva Symphony No. 3. 'White interment'
Bavarian State Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

c.4.00
Avison Concerto in 4 parts in D major Op.9`2 for strings and continuo 
Avison Ensemble

Mussorgsky orch Rimsky-Korsakov A Night on the Bare Mountain 
Ulster Orchestra
Pablo Urbina (conductor)

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