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Afternoon Concert: Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5

Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5

Orchestral music from Holst, Mozart and Debussy.

Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5, featuring young German violinist Laura Handler as soloist with the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn.

Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring live recordings from the BBC performing groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's featured work at 3 o'clock is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5, performed by young German violinist Laura Handler with the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, conducted by Anna Handler. Also featured across the week is music from a concert given by the Serbian choral group the Novi Sad Chamber Choir, as well as recordings from several of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists. Plus a chance to hear Venezuelan virtuoso Pacho Flores playing Albares, his own Flugelhorn Concerto with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Manuel Hernández Silva.


2pm
Louise Farrenc: Overture in E flat major, Op 24
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor) 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancholique for violin and orchestra, Op 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)

Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899/Op 90 No 3
Eric Lu (piano)

Arvo Pärt: The Deer’s Cry 
Novi Sad Chamber Choir
Bozidar Crnjanski (conductor)

Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)


3pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 'Turkish'
Laura Handler (violin)
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn
Anna Handler (conductor)

Francesco Scarlatti: Sonata in four parts, No 9 in D major
Les Recreations

Claude Debussy: Iberia (from Images for orchestra)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)


4pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Andante in F major WoO.57 (Andante favori) for piano
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)

Pacho Flores: Albares, concerto for flugelhorn
Pacho Flores (flugelhorn)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Manuel Hernández Silva (conductor)

Niccolo Paganini: Caprice in A mionr, Op 1 No 24
Johan Dalene (violin)

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