Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Beethoven's Violin Concerto

Beethoven's Violin Concerto

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Tobias Feldmann plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Emilia Hoving. Plus music for Holy Week by Lotti and more Croatian folk tunes.

Penny Gore introduces a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Emilia Hoving.  Also today, Raphael Wallfisch play’s EJ Moeran’s Cello Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra, there’s music for Holy Week by Antonio Lotti, choral music by Kerry Andrew, and more from the concert of Croatian folk tunes from Zagreb, which appears throughout the week.

Including:

2pm

Dmitri Shostakovich – Festive Overture, Op.96
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Kerry Andrew – Hevene Quene
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor)

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.3 
Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Augusta Holmès – Andromeda
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Leo Halsdorf (conductor)

c. 1435
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasy for solo viola da gamba No.11 in D minor TWV.40:36 
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)

Giacomo Puccini – Intermezzo [Manon Lescaut]
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Trad. Croatia – Malo bunjevačko kolo
HRT Tamburitza Orchestra
Musicians of the LADO

Sergei Rachmaninov – Etudes-tableaux, Op.39 (No 5 in E flat minor)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

1500
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Tobias Feldmann (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Emilia Hoving (conductor)

Richard Lloyd – Were you there?
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus
BBC Singers
Martin Baker (organ)
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

c. 1600 
EJ Moeran - Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) 
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

Mozart - Fantasia in D minor, K.397
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Lowell Liebermann - Revelry
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

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