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BBC Symphony Orchestra

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Switzerland playing music by Anna Clyne, Britten and Beethoven.

Penny Gore ends her week featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a concert from their recent trip to Switzerland with Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. The venue is Geneva's beautiful Victoria Hall - and yes, it is named after the English Queen Victoria...

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Britten: Violin Concerto
2.45pm - Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F major (Pastoral)
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo

3.30pm
Richard Strauss: Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra winds
Conductor Douglas Boyd

3.55pm
Florent Schmitt: Symphony No 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 4 May 201814:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anna Clyne

    This Midnight Hour

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto Op. 15

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 6 in F, Op 68

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Richard Strauss

    Suite in B-flat major, Op. 4

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.

  • Florent Schmitt

    Symphony No. 2, Op. 137

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Schmitt: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 7-9.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 May 201814:00
    BBC Radio 3