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Don Quixote

Music inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's epic novel, from Richard Strauss and Roberto Gerhard, plus James MacMillan's Miserere with the BBC Singers.

Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring new recordings by the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes two musical interpretations of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote story, including Richard Strauss's tone poem at 3pm with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus, the Miserere by James MacMillan performed by the BBC Singers. Plus a rare chance to hear the Sinfonia in C by English composer Reginald Morris performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Including:

Gerhard: Don Quixote, Dances version for orchestra 1957
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Barber: Two Choruses from Antony and Cleopatra
BBC Singers
Caroline Jaya-Ratnam (piano)
Grace Rossiter (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Overture to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 21
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Christian Øland (conductor)

c.3pm
R. Strauss: Don Quixote
Scott Dickinson (viola)
Pablo Ferrandez (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

James MacMillan: Miserere
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.4.15
Reginald Morris: Sinfonia in C
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Delyana Lazarova (conductor)

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Tue 12 Sep 2023 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Lambert Orkis.
    • Sony Masterworks.

  • Roberto Gerhard

    Don Quixote, Dances version for orchestra 1957

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Juanjo Mena.

  • Samuel Barber

    Two Choruses: i. On the death of Antony

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Samuel Barber

    Two Choruses: ii. On the death of Cleopatra

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 21

    Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Christian Øland.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in C minor BWV 911

    Performer: Eric Lu.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote

    Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Scott Dickinson. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • James McMillan

    Miserere

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18, 2nd mvt "Improvisation" Andante cantabile

    Performer: Benjamin Baker. Performer: Robert Thompson.
    • The Last Rose of Summer.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 9.

  • Reginald Owen Morris

    Sinfonia in C

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.

  • François Couperin

    Passacaille (Pièces de violes No 1)

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo. Performer: Thomas Boysen. Performer: Markus Hünninger.
    • Couperin: Pieces de violes: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • Glossa.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Tue 12 Sep 2023 14:00
    BBC Radio 3