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Brahms's Double

Stephen Waarts and Steven Isserlis combine in Brahms's Double Concerto, and Franco Fagioli sings Mozart.

Presented by Penny Gore, with the finest concert recordings from ѿý ensembles and around Europe.

Today, Brahms' Double Concerto for violin and cello is played by Stephen Waarts and Steven Isserlis, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conduced by Andras Schiff, the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration, plus more Mozart from counter-tenor Franco Fagioli and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. The ѿý Symphony Orchestra plays the music of Dorothy Howell.

Including:

Foulds: Le Cabaret - overture to a French comedy
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Kraus: Overture, from 'Olympie VB 33'
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Bart, conductor

c.2.15pm
R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), op. 24
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Shelley, conductor

Mozart: Lungi le cure ingrat, from 'Davide penitente, K. 469'
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Bart, conductor

D. Howell: Two Pieces for Muted Strings [1. Nocturne; 2. Moto perpetuo]
ѿý Symphony Orchestra
Michael Collins, conductor

3pm
Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102
Stephen Waarts, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Andras Schiff, conductor

c.3.50pm
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Bart, conductor

Alice Mary Smith: Overture to the Masque of Pandora
ѿý Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

c.4.40pm
Beethoven (arr. G. Schumann and Y. Segal): Sonata for Orchestra (After Beethoven's Op. 30 No. 2); 1st movement
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
Yaniv Segal, conductor

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Tue 26 Sep 2023 14:00

Music Played

  • John Foulds

    Le Cabaret, Op.72a

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overture from the British Isles, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse Op.40

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Children's Cello.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus

    Overture, from 'Olympie VB 33'

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Daniel Bard.
  • Richard Strauss

    Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), op. 24

    Orchestra: MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Shelley.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lungi le cure ingrat, from 'Davide penitente, K. 469'

    Singer: Franco Fagioli. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Daniel Bard.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Two Pieces for Muted Strings

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
  • Gabriel Pierné

    Canzonetta, Op 19

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102

    Performer: Stephen Waarts. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir András Schiff. Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
  • Robert Schumann

    Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132: III. Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck

    • Schumann: Chamber Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Morfydd Owen

    Llwyn Owen

    Performer: Libby Burgess. Music Arranger: Edward-Rhys Harry. Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Ellie Slorach.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165

    Singer: Franco Fagioli. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Daniel Bard.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Excerpts from 'Études-Tableaux, op. 39'

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes - suite: Prologue / Air vif / Menuet I & II / Contredanse

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite etc.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4, 8, 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for Orchestra (After Beethoven's Op. 30 No. 2): I. Allegro con brio

    Composer: Yaniv Segal. Composer: Garrett Schumann. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Yaniv Segal.
    • Beethoven Reimagined.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quintet in E major Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Joachim Griesheimer. Ensemble: Mannheim String Quartet.
    • CPO.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor (Version for Orchestra) [Live]

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • R. Strauss & Brahms: Orchestral Works (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 301.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 10 in F major

    Orchestrator: Johannes Brahms. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 27.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Sep 2023 14:00