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Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture and Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins them as soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto.

Another chance to hear Juanjo Mena conduct the BBC Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture and Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins them as soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto.

From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester

Presented by Christopher Cook

Mendelssohn: Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Schumann: Piano Concerto

8.10
Schumann: Fantasy Piece Op 12 No 1, 'In der Nacht'
Bowen: Romances Nos 1 and 2

8.30
Mahler: Symphony No 1

Nature in all its gentleness and wildness colours this programme of romantic music, from the gentle first notes of Mahler's Symphony, with its blossoming of Spring and bird calls, to a depiction of turbulent seas off the west coast of Scotland as experienced by the twenty year old Mendelssohn. Schumann's great outpouring of his love for Clara is epitomised in his glowing Piano Concerto.
Programme first broadcast live on 2 May 2014

Followed by a selection of trio sonatas on disc.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Jan 202119:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Songs my Mother Taught me, arr. Stephen Hough

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Piece Op 12 No 1, 'In der Nacht'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Romances Nos 1 and 2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D

    Performer: Juanjo Mena. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.

Credit

PerformerBBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Broadcasts

  • Fri 2 May 201419:30
    BBC Radio 3
  • Fri 22 Jan 202119:30
    BBC Radio 3