Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Sibelius's 1st Symphony

Sibelius's 1st Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Sibelius's 1st Symphony

Emilia Hoving conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Sibelius's 1st Symphony.

Sibelius’s 1st Symphony from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Emilia Hoving. There's also choral music for Holy Week, and traditional Croatian folk tunes from Zagreb.

Penny Gore introduces a recent recording of Sibelius's Symphony No.1 from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Emilia Hoving. We also hear the world premiere of William Lloyd-Webber’s “Scenes from Childhood” in a recording made at the Abbey of Dorchester-on-Thames last summer.  Throughout the week, choral music for Holy Week from the BBC Singers - today we hear Orlando Gibbons "Drop, drop slow tears" alongside music by choral music by Mendelssohn – as well as daily pieces for viola da gamba and some very joyous traditional folk music from Croatia.

Including,

2pm

Bedrich Smetana - Overture: The Kiss
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Alonso Lobo – Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae (Ierusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor)

Manuel de Falla -  Ritual Fire Dance [El Amor Brujo]
Javier Perianes (piano)

William Lloyd Webber – Scenes from Childhood
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

c. 1430
Dietrich Buxtehude – Viola da gamba Sonata in D, BuxWV.268
Marco Ambrosini (viola da gamba)
Ieva Saliete (harpsichord)

Georges Auric arr. Philip Lane – Suite from “The Lavender Hill Mob”
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Trad. Croatia – Trogirski sotić
HRT Tamburitza Orchestra
Musicians of the LADO

Maurice Ravel – La Valse
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

1500
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Emilia Hoving (conductor)

Orlando Gibbons - Drop, drop, slow tears
Felix Mendelssohn – In der Passionzeit
Felix Mendelssohn – Kyrie in A major for double choir 
BBC Singers
martin Baker (organ)
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in A, op. 118/2
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

c. 1600

Viktor Kalabis - Symphonic Variations, Op.24
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Cecilia McDowall - O Magnum Mysterium
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Frederick Delius - Summer Night on the River
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

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