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Easter at King's: Haydn, Brahms, Rossini

From the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus under Stephen Cleobury. Haydn: Symphony No 49. Brahms: Nanie. Rossini: Stabat Mater.

As part of the Easter at King's Festival, Stephen Cleobury conducts this concert of seasonal music, live from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Haydn's dramatic Symphony 49 is from his Sturm und Drang period. There's a rare performance of Schiller's funeral song, a lamentation on the inevitability of death, set by Brahms; and the concert ends with Rossini's Stabat Mater, a late work written after he'd retired from the operatic stage.

HAYDN Symphony No 49 in F minor, La Passione
BRAHMS Nänie

INTERVAL

ROSSINI Stabat Mater

Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)
Tom Raskin (tenor)
Henry Waddington (bass)
Philharmonia Chorus
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury

Post-Concert Music: It's All About the Piano! - Hands of Tomorrow - a Franco-British soirée, recorded at the French Institute in London last Saturday. Over the course of this week sample four top young pianists from the Paris Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music including D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, Boulez, Messiaen and Liszt:

Marina Koka (piano) Guildhall School
Justine Leroux (piano) Paris Conservatoire
Sophia Dee (piano) Guildhall School
Tanguy de Williencourt (piano) Paris Conservatoire.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Walton The Wise Virgins (excerpts)

    Performer: Karl Stephenson. Performer: Cynthia Fleming. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra.
    • ASV.
  • Franz Liszt

    Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

    Performer: Tanguy.

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Apr 2015 19:30

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