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Florence Price's Symphony No 1

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Florence Price's Symphony No 1 and music from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Plus, film music with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Ian Skelly begins another week of afternoons, featuring the best performances from BBC ensembles and concert halls across Europe.
Today, he introduces the BBC Philharmonic with Joshua Weilerstein conducting Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, also the orchestra in music from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, with conductor Vassily Sinaisky; also this week, Italian music from a golden age of cinema, with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Today, music from 'Cinema Paradiso', by the renowned composer Ennio Morricone. Also, Clara Schumann's Trio in G minor and a Buxtehude's cantata with the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Including,

2pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: Serenade: III. Nocturne. Molto vivace
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

Florence Price: Fantasie no. 1 in G minor for violin and piano
Randall Goosby, violin
Zhu Wang, piano

Verdi: La Forza del Destino (Overture)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang, conductor

Ennio Morricone:
Infanzia e Maturita, from 'Cinema Paradiso'
Viaggio, from 'Stanno tutti bene'
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ivan Repusic, conductor

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri - 7 passion cantatas BuxWV.75: no.2; Ad genua
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
John Mark Ainsley (Tenor); Robin Blaze (Counter-tenor); Giles Underwood (Bass); Phantasm Ensemble; Daniel Hyde, director

3pm
Price: Symphony No. 1
BBC Philharmonic
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Paganini: Sonata for violin and guitar no. 2 in D major [Centone di sonate]
Gil Shaham, violin
Goran Sollscher, guitar

Clara Schumann: Trio in G minor Op.17 for piano and strings: Allegro moderato
Trio Storioni

Tchaikovsky: Introduction and waltz from "Eugene Onegin" - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Mon 30 Oct 2023 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Nocturne (Serenade)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Bennett: Concerto for Stan Getz, Symphony No. 2, Serenade for Small Orchestra &a.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Florence Price

    Fantasie No. 1

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Decca.

  • Clément Janequin

    Le chant des oiseaux

    Performer: Ensemble Clément Janequin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Forza del Destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Xian Zhang.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Ensemble: Quatuor Mosaïques.
    • NAIVE.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Infanzia e Maturita, from 'Cinema Paradiso'

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Viaggio, from 'Stanno tutti bene'

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Ad Genua (Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV.75)

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: Giles Underwood. Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Ensemble: Phantasm. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
    • Opus Arte.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.1

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Joshua Weilerstein.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Sonata No 2 in D major (Centone di sonate)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 11-12.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Armando Trovajoll

    In the Dark, from 'Profumo di donna'

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Storioni Trio.
    • Ars Produktion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Introduction and waltz from "Eugene Onegin" - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24)

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • GBBBC.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French suite no.5 in G major BWV.816 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • HYPERION.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Freedom)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Mon 30 Oct 2023 14:00
    BBC Radio 3