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Wednesday - Mozart's 'Linz' Symphony

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mozart's Symphony No 36 in C, 'Linz', and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play music by James MacMillan.

Ian Skelly presents live recordings from BBC orchestras and concerts around Europe.

Today at 3pm, from a recent concert in Budapest, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists in the symphony Mozart wrote during a visit to the Austrian town of Linz in 1783. Also this afternoon, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in James MacMillan's requiem based on the story of Isobel Gowdie, burnt as a witch in post-Reformation Scotland. the Latvian Radio Choir sing more Latin motets by Bruckner, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Elgar.

Including:

Liszt: Ronde des lutins, from 'Two Concert Etudes, S. 145'
Raphaela Gromes, cello
Julian Riem, piano

James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Bruckner: Ave Maria
Latvian Radio Choir

Elgar: Serenade for string orchestra (Op.20) in E minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

3pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 ('Linz')
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Bruckner: O Justi
Latvian Radio Choir

R Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op. 73
Raphaela Gromes, cello
Julian Riem, piano

2 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Wed 19 Apr 2023 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Partita (Finale)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol. 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 13.

  • Franz Liszt

    Ronde des lutins, from 'Two Concert Etudes, S. 145'

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.

  • James McMillan

    The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    O canto do cisne negro (Song of a black swan)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Music Arranger: Julian Riem.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 ('Linz')

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Finale, from 'Symphony No. 60 in C, Hob. I:60 'Il distratto'' (encore)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Anton Bruckner

    O Justi

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestücke, op. 73

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in Gb, D899 No.3

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • ECM.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Apr 2023 14:00
    BBC Radio 3