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Monday - Walton's First Symphony

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in William Walton's First Symphony, plus music by Weber and Hoffmeister.

Fiona Talkington begins starts another week of afternoons with live recordings from around Europe and BBC orchestras, including symphonies at 3pm from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO in the first of William Walton's two symphonies, completed in the 1930s, and Jorg Widmann joins them for his own arrangement of Weber's Clarinet Quintet. Sara Ferrandez is the soloist in Hoffmeister's Viola Concerto, and there's vocal music by Caccini and Strozzi recorded in the Monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants in Girona.

Including:

Lully: Excerpts from 'Ballet de la Nuit'
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Weber: Clarinet Quintet Op.34 (arr. Widmann)
Jorg Widmann (clarinet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Schnittke: Moz-Art a la Haydn
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3pm
Walton Symphony No.1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Caccini: Romanesca
Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso
Cristina Segura (mezzo)
Ensemble Exclamatio

Hoffmeister: Viola Concerto in D
Sara Ferrandez (viola)
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Chloe van Soeterstede (conductor)

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Mon 11 Apr 2022 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Excerpts from 'Ballet de la Nuit'

    Composer: Louis de Mollier. Composer: Michel Mazuel. Performer: Amandine Beyer. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet Op.34

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Music Arranger: Jörg Widmann. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Moz-Art a la Haydn

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

    Performer: Claire Huangci. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.

  • William Walton

    Symphony No. 1

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Singer: Cristina Segura. Ensemble: Ensemble Exclamatio.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'Eraclito amoroso

    Singer: Cristina Segura. Ensemble: Ensemble Exclamatio.

  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister

    Viola Concerto in D

    Performer: Sara Ferrandez. Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española. Conductor: Chloé van Soeterstède.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Courante, from 'Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat, BWV 1004'

    Performer: Sara Ferrandez.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Rite of Spring.
    • Signum.
    • 20.

Broadcast

  • Mon 11 Apr 2022 14:00
    BBC Radio 3