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Classical Live: Danish Chamber Orchestra play Mozart

Danish Chamber Orchestra play Mozart

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, Danish Chamber Orchestra play Mozart

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond.

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Dvorak's Water Goblin and Mozart's brilliant 36th Symphony, the 'Linz'.

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. 

Today's selection includes a celebration of Scotland with Thea Musgrave's "Loch Ness", Dvorak's tone poem "The Water Goblin", Bach played brilliantly on the guitar by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia and Mozart's 36th symphony, the "Linz", composed at lightning speed in 1883. That work is also part of our mini survey of music-making in Denmark, featuring the Danish Chamber Orchestra with the celebrated conductor Adam Fischer. 

Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre
Alexandrea Soumm (violin)
Aimo Pagin (piano)

Alessandro Scarlatti
Variations on La Follia
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Thea Musgrave
Loch Ness – A Postcard from Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

TRAD. arr. Paul Campbell
Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald (conductor) 

Robert Schumann
Marchenerzahlungen
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
Eivind Ringstad (viola)
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Antonin Dvorak
The Water Goblin
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Garcia/Morinere
French Suite No. 2 in C minor
Thibaut Garcia (guitar)
Antoine Moriniere (guitar)

2.30pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 ('Linz')	 
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Ádám Fischer (conductor)

Fryderyk Chopin
Nocturne in D flat Op. 27 No. 2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Francis Poulenc
La Figure Humaine
BBC Singers
Simon Rattle (conductor) 

Gioachino Rossini
String Sonata No. 2 in A
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

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