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Elgar's Enigma Variations

Kristiina Poska conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's Enigma Variations. Other music includes works by Lotti, Rossini, Tarik O’Regan, Smetana and Moeran.

Kristiina Poska conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The focus this week has been the BBC Philharmonic and this afternoon there's a specially recorded performance of perhaps Elgar's greatest work, the so-called "Enigma" Variations into which he wove the personalities of his friends

2.30pm
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March no.4
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor

Lotti
Froh quanta sunt
Jakub Jozef Orlinski, countertenor
Il Pomo d'Oro
Zefira Valova, director

Rossini
Overture: The thieving magpie
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon

3.00pm
Elgar
Enigma Variations
BBC Philharmonic
Kristiina Poska, conductor

Haydn
Cello Concerto no.1 in C
Alban Gerhardt, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Tarik O’Regan
I Listen To The Stillness Of You
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter, conductor

Smetana
Ma Vlast: Vltava
Ulster Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh, conductor

Moeran
Lonely waters
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Thu 15 Jun 2023 14:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 in G major

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Kristiina Poska.

  • Antonio Lotti

    Froh quanta sunt

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Zefira Valova.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The thieving magpie (Overture)

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Ben Gernon.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Peccator videbit, RV.597

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Zefira Valova.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka In G minor, Op.24 no.1

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 008.

  • Aaron Copland

    El salon Mexico

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 1 in C major, H 7b.1

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • Tarik O’Regan

    I Listen To The Stillness Of You

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (from Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Tom Fetherstonhaugh.

  • Abel Selaocoe

    Tsepho

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Seckou Keita. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Fiona Monbet.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely Waters

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in G minor Op.6`8 'Christmas Concerto' (mvts 4-6)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Corelli: Concerti Grossi, opus 6 - Baroque Esprit Series.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 27.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Jun 2023 14:30
    BBC Radio 3