Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Beethoven Symphony no.1

Beethoven Symphony no.1

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Music by Beethoven, Vaughan Williams and Kodaly.

Fiona Talkington presents the Orchestre Consuelo in Beethoven's Symphony no.1 at the Chaise-Dieu Festival in France, plus Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Fiona Talkington presents a new week of Afternoon Concert, featuring music from home and abroad. Today's programme features the Orchestre Consuelo in the 3 o'clock spot, with Beethoven's Symphony no.1 in a performance from the Chaise-Dieu Festival in France. Vox Luminis perform lesser known baroque composers at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, including today music by Tobias Michael and Wolfgang Carl Briegel. Plus a new recording of Vaughan Williams' Variants of Dives and Lazarus by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emilie Godden.  

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm 
Vaughan Williams Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Emilie Godden (conductor)

Tobias Michael Die Erlöseten des Herren
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Chopin Scherzo in B minor Op. 20
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Kodaly Dances of Galanta [Galanta tancok] for orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Vivaldi Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Harry Christophers (conductor)

c.3pm
Beethoven Symphony no.1 in C major, Op.21 
Orchestre Consuelo
Victor Julien-Laferrière (conductor) 

Wolfgang Carl Briegel Ach, Herr, lehre doch mich SEGUE Ach wie gar nichts sind alle Menschen
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Holst Indra - symphonic poem Op.13
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta (conductor)

c.4.00 
Madeleine Dring Trio for flute, oboe and piano
Nancy Ruffer (flute)
John Anderson (oboe)
Helen Crayford (piano)

Albeniz Rapsodia espanola, Op.70
Melani Mestre (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

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