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Penny Gore with music linked to the New World. Dvorak: Carnival Overture. Korngold: Violin Concerto. Dvorak: The Noonday Witch. Salonen: Wing on Wing. Gershwin: Piano Concerto.

Exploring the New World in the spirit of Dvorak, we go to Hollywood and the West Coast with Korngold's lyrical concerto and Salonen's dramatic work for two sopranos and orchestra inspired by Frank Gehry's shiny sail-style architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Moving from West to East at 4pm, former BBC Moscow Correspondent Martin Sixsmith joins presenter Penny Gore to introduce a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony no 2 as part his series Russia: The Wild East, tracing the course of 1000 years of Russian history, on Radio 4.

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Mon 16 May 201114:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Michal Dworzynski

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: Tai Murray (violin) Conductor: Benjamin Schwartz

  • Antonín Dvořák

    The Noonday Witch

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Stefan Solyom

  • Salonen

    Wing on wing

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra Performer: Anu Komsi (soprano) Performer: Piia Komsi (soprano) Conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto.

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales Performer: Peter Donohoe (piano) Conductor: David Charles Abell

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 2

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Mark Elder

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Festive Dance

    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) BBC Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 May 201114:00
    BBC Radio 3