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The BBC Philharmonic perform Prokofiev and pianist Stephen Hough and friends perform Mozart

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, featuring pianist Stephen Hough

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles, and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

Today's Classical Live features more concert recordings by pianist Stephen Hough, including Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds. Written 240 years ago, Mozart himself considered this piece 'to be the best thing I have written in my life' and it was even said to have inspired Beethoven to write a similar piece 12 years later in 1792.

Plus Cinderella makes an appearance courtesy of Prokofiev, The Queen of Sheba arrives by way of Handel and guitarist Sean Shibe plays an arrangement of Peter Maxwell Davies' Farewell to Stromness.

Geroge Frideric Handel
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Fugue; Lento (from Solomon)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Kenneth Sillito (conductor)

Camille Saint-Saens
Africa Fantasy
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

John Tavener
Love Bade Me Welcome
BBC Singers
Rupert Gough (director)

Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella Suite No. 2
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Sean Shibe (guitar)

Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'eau (Miroirs)
Zhang Zuo (piano)

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Suite
Czech Philharmonic Brass

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for Piano and Wind Instruments K. 452
Stephen Hough (piano)
Amy Harman (bassoon)
Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Julian Bliss (clarinet)
Oliver Stanciewicz (oboe)
Thomas Hancox (flute)

Edmund Finnis
The Air, Tuning
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Concerto
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

2 hours, 58 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Apr 2024 13:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alexander Borodin

    Overture to Prince Igor

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • GBBBC.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Balulalow

    Performer: Stephen Farr. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Richard Pearce.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa Fantasie, Op.89

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Tavener

    Love Bade Me Welcome

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Rupert Gough.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella; Suite No.2

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Moritz Gnann.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    12 Études for guitar (Étude No 1 in E minor)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness, arr. guitar

    Performer: Sean Shibe.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin concerto in E flat major, RV 253 (La Tempesta di mare)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Zhang Zuo.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess Suite

    Composer: Jaroslav Kropacek.
    • White Picket Fence Productions.

  • Leos Janáček

    Glagolitic Mass: Vĕruju (Credo)

    Singer: Kateřina Kněžíková. Singer: Jarmila Vantuchová. Singer: Eduard Martyniuk. Singer: Jan Stava. Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, K.452

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Thomas Hancox. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Olivier Stankiewicz.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Edmund Finnis

    The Air, Turning

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Dirge [Suite No.2 in E minor, Op.48]

    Performer: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Macdowell: Orchestral Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in the Italian style in F major, BWV 971

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Apr 2024 13:00
    BBC Radio 3