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Thursday - Wagner and Weinberg

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra plays excerpts from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, plus Dvorak from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Bach from Ton Koopman.

Ian Skelly continues this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and an orchestral suite by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays a selection of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, and Voces8 sing music by Rheinberger and Schutz. Ton Koopman plays organ music by Bach and Buxtehude in Copenhagen, and Toru Takemitsu's Twill by twilight is played by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic.

Including:

Bantock: The Frogs
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Rheinberger: Kyrie (Mass in E flat, Op.109)
Voces8

Takemitsu: Twill by twilight
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen (conductor)

Brahms: Ophelia Lieder
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Kaspar Zehnder (flute) / Andrew Marriner (clarinet) / Giovanni Guzzo & Rahel Maria Rilling (violins) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / David Adorjan (cello) / Sir Simon Rattle (piano)

JS Bach: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV.654
Ton Koopman (organ)

Maconchy: Proud Thames
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

John Adams: Short ride in a fast machine
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor)

3pm
Wagner: Excerpts from The Ring
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

c. 3.40pm
Mozart: Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia, K.582
Lydia Teuscher (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Schutz: Selig sind die Toten [Geistliche Chormusik, SWF.391]
Voces8

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Buxtehude: Fuga in C
Ton Koopman (organ)

Rebecca Clarke: Passacaglia on an old English tune for viola & piano
Philip Dukes (viola)
Sophia Rahman (piano)

c. 4.30pm
Weinberg: Suite for orchestra
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Thu 23 Mar 2023 14:00

Music Played

  • Granville Bantock

    The Frogs Op.102

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Kyrie, from 'Mass in E flat ('Cantus Missae'), op. 109'

    Choir: VOCES8.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Twill by twilight

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Karlsen.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ophelia-Lieder

    Performer: Kaspar Zehnder. Performer: Andrew Marriner. Performer: Giovanni Guzzo. Performer: Rahel Maria Rilling. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Dávid Adorján. Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV.654, chorale prelude

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Overture Proud Thames

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lahav Shani.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Allegro non molto, from L'Inverno ('Winter'), Violin Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297, from 'The Four Seasons, op. 8''

    Performer: Martynas. Performer: Vadimas Vystavkinas. Orchestra: Mikroorkestra.
  • Richard Wagner

    Symphonic excerpts from 'The Ring of the Nibelung'

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alain Altinoglu.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia, K.582

    Singer: Lydia Teuscher. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
  • Heinrich Schütz

    Selig sind die Toten, from 'Geistliche Chormusik, SWF 391'

    Choir: VOCES8.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Fuga in C, BuxWV 174

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Passacaglia on an Old English Tune

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Violin Sonata, Dumka.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    Suite for Orchestra

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alain Altinoglu.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Valse mignonne

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Leoncavallo - La Nuit de mai: Various.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Mar 2023 14:00