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Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4

Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 with pianist Francesco Piemontesi and Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring live recordings from the BBC performing groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's featured work at 3 o'clock is Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4, with pianist Francesco Piemontesi the soloist and Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Also featured across the week is music from a concert given by the Serbian choral group the Novi Sad Chamber Choir, as well as recordings from several of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists.

2pm
Luciano Berio: Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid" di Luigi Boccherini
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Franz Liszt: Harmonies du soir (Transcendental Etude No 11)
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Domingo Lopez arr George Hernandez: Rosas Pandan
Novi Sad Chamber Choir
Bozidar Crnjanski (conductor)

George Frideric Handel: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 1
Bojan Čičić (violin)
Steven Devine (harpsichord)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Petit suite de concert
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

William Lawes: Royall Consort suite No 3 in D minor
Phantasm
Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)

3pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Cecilia McDowall: O Virgo Virginum
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Richard Strauss: Prelude to Capriccio
Calidore String Quartet
Eivind Ringstad (viola)
Andrei Ioniță (cello)

4pm
CPE Bach: Symphony in E minor, Wq 178
Pulcinella Orchestra
Ophélie Gaillard (director)

Robert Schumann arr Thorp: Frauenliebe und Leben (arr for singer and string quartet)
Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano)
Consone Quartet

Puccini: Preludio sinfonico
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ivan Repušić (conductor)

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga – symphonic poem
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Dragan Suplevski: Oral dedo
Novi Sad Chamber Choir
Bozidar Crnjanski (conductor)

3 hours, 1 minute

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Thu 14 Mar 2024 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid" di Luigi Boccherini

    Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.

  • Franz Liszt

    Harmonies du soir (Transcedental Etude No 11)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Liszt: Piano Sonata & Transcendental Etudes.
    • Pentatone.
    • 11.

  • Dragan Šuplevski

    Oral dedo

    Choir: Novi Sad Chamber Choir. Conductor: Bozidar Crnjanski.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 1

    Performer: Bojan Čičić. Performer: Steven Devine.
    • Delphian.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La danza (Soirées musicales)

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini. Conductor: Carlo Tenan.
    • Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.3 in D minor

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.

  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio (Prelude)

    Performer: Andrei Ioniţă. Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    O Virgo Virginum

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E minor Wq.178

    Performer: Ophélie Gaillard. Orchestra: Pulcinella Orchestra.
    • CPE Bach Project Volume 2.
    • Aparté.
    • 7.

  • Béla Bartók

    Piano Concerto No 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anda Géza. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
    • Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos.1-3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Robert Schumann

    Frauenliebe und Leben (arr singer and string quartet)

    Music Arranger: Bill Thorp. Singer: Helen Charlston. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • SONY.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio sinfonico

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Songs & Works.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 17.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga

    Performer: Thomas Søndergård. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

  • Domingo Lopez

    Rosas Pandan

    Performer: Milica Nikolic. Music Arranger: George G. Hernandez. Choir: Novi Sad Chamber Choir. Conductor: Bozidar Crnjanski.

  • William Alwyn

    April Morn: III. Bluebells

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Mar 2024 14:00
    BBC Radio 3