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Celebrating the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Minna Keal's Symphony and Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 in C, 'Leningrad', as well as works by Kenneth Leighton and a trombone concerto by Gavin Higgins.

Symphonies by Minna Keal & Shostakovich (his so-called 'Leningrad'), as well as works by Kenneth Leighton and a new trombone concerto by Gavin Higgins

2.00pm
Vasks: Cantabile for strings
Higgins: Trombone Concerto
Helen Vollam (trombone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

2.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 'Leningrad'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

3.45pm
Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Leighton: Mass
BBC Singers
Richard Pearce (organ)
Matthew Halls (conductor, Britten)
Paul Spicer (conductor, Leighton)

4.15pm
Keal: Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

3 hours

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Fri 15 Feb 201914:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Peteris Vasks

    Cantabile for Strings

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.

  • Gavin Higgins

    Trombone Concerto 'The Book of Miracles'

    Performer: Helen Vollam. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No.7 in in C major, Op. 60

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    Mass for Double Choir

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.

  • Minna Keal

    Symphony No.3

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Feb 201914:00
    BBC Radio 3

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