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Tuesday - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Catriona Young features the BBC SSO. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Beethoven: Symphony No 5. Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Overture). Plus music by Schubert and Korngold.

Catriona Young presents a week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a Beethoven theme running across the week. Today's programme includes a new CD recording of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand, with soloist Steven Osborne. Plus a concert the orchestra gave in March in Glasgow City Halls: Benjamin Appl is soloist in a selection of Schubert songs and John Wilson conducts the orchestra in Korngold's Symphony in F sharp. And today's work by Beethoven is his Fifth Symphony.

2pm
Ravel: Concerto in D major for piano (left hand) and orchestra
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

c.2.15pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op.67
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.2.50pm
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture, Op.26
Schubert:
An die Musik, arr. Reger
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, arr. Reger
Prometheus, arr. Reger
Du bist die Ruh, arr. Gillmann
Ganymed, arr. Gillmann
Der Erlkönig, arr. Liszt

c.3.30pm
Korngold Symphony in F sharp, Op.40
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Concerto in D major for piano (left hand) and orchestra

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture Op.26

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Franz Schubert

    6 Schubert Songs

    Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp Op.40

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • William Walton

    Belshazzar's Feast - Final Chorus

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Choir: BBC National Chorus of Wales. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Stephen Jackson. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

Credit

RoleContributor
PerformerBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 May 201714:00