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Martinu's Symphony No 1

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Martinu's Symphony No 1, plus music by Monteverdi and contemporaries from L'Arpeggiata.

Fiona Talkington presents great concert performances from the ѿý performing groups and from across Europe. Today's 3pm highlight is a performance of Martinu's Symphony No.1 with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also today, music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries performed by L'Arpeggiata directed by Christina Pluhar.

2.00pm
Dorween Carwithen
Men of Sherwood: Overture
ѿý Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Monteverdi, etc
Remembering: Homo fugit velut umbra...
A sequence of music curated by Christina Pluhar & Marco Beasley
Scene 5
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, director

Liszt
Orpheus
LPO
Bernard Haitink

Rhona Clarke
A Song for St Cecilia's Day
ѿý Singers
Grace Rossiter, conductor

Debussy
Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Benjamin Britten, piano

3.00pm
Martinu
Symphony no.1
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cornelius Meister, conductor

Britten
Hymn to St Cecilia
ѿý Singers
David Hill, conductor

Bizet
Symphony in C: Scherzo & Trio
Les Siecles
Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor

2 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Wed 22 Nov 2023 14:00

Music Played

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Overture Men of Sherwood

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Symphony No. 1, H. 289

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cornelius Meister.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Scena V - La Morte (danse macabre)

    Singer: Cyril Auvity. Singer: Céline Scheen. Singer: Benedetta Mazzucato. Singer: Renato Dolcini. Singer: Marco Beasley. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Rhona Clarke

    A Song for St Cecilia's Day

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.
  • Claude Debussy

    Cello Sonata in D minor

    Performer: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Rostropovich and Britten Recital.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • GBѿý.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony No 1 in C major (3rd mvt, Scherzo and trio)

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K 546 (Adagio)

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard. Performer: Peter Zazofsky. Performer: Bayla Keyes. Performer: Steven Ansell. Performer: Michael Reynolds. Ensemble: Muir Quartet.
    • Mozart - Quaturos pour piano et cordes, KV478, KV493 and KV546.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 22 Nov 2023 14:00