Classical Live

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Classical Live: Music making from Denmark and the BBC Singers

Music making from Denmark and the BBC Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, Music making from Denmark and the BBC Singers

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

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, featuring Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata and Janacek's Sinfonietta.

Tom McKinney presents an afternoon of great music to accompany your afternoon, including Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, composed for an instrument which at the time had only recently been invented and which never really took off. Schubert composed a timeless masterpiece for it, however, which fortunately can be played on other instruments, usually (as in today's performance) the cello.  Also this afternoon, Janacek's exhilarating and patriotic testament to his Czech homeland, the Sinfonietta. 


Elizabeth Maconchy
Overture, Proud Thames
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, (conductor)

Maurice Ravel 
Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs)
Marie-Ange Nguci (piano)

John Rutter
Hymn to the Creator of Light
Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Graham Ross (conductor)

Franz Schubert 
Sonata in A minor, D. 821 ('Arpeggione')
Bruno Delepelaire (cello) 
Nathanaël Gouin (piano)

Roxanna Panufnik
Love Endureth
BBC Singers, (Sofi Jeannin)
 
Johann Johannsson
Through Falling Snow (Prisoners)

Leos Janacek
Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony
Ryan Wigglesworth, (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F, K.138
Leonkoro Quartet

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