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The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Japan

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, on tour in Japan in 2018, play Britten, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. And at the Aldeburgh Festival, they play Helen Grimes's Everyone Sang.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers: Penny Gore begins a week devoted to two of the world's most versatile performing ensemble. Today the BBC Symphony Orchestra is heard in a range of repertoire recorded on tour in Japan and as well as nearer to home at the Aldeburgh Festival and at London's Royal Albert Hall. We also hear from the Orchestra's world-beating Symphony Chorus.

Britten: 4 Sea interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Concerto in D major Op.35
Alina Pogostkina (violin)

approx. 3pm.
Interval: BBC Singers sing Laura Mvula's 'Look at me now, I wear shoes of eagle’s wings from ‘Love like a lion’, commissioned for the BBC Singers & Sofi Jeannin (conductor), recorded at the 2018 BBC Proms Dubai.

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

at approx 3.55pm

Helen Grime: Everyone Sang
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Jonathan Dove: We are one fire
BBC Symphony Chorus, Neil Ferris (conductor)

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 13 Jul 202014:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D Op.35

    Performer: Alina Pogostkina. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Laura Mvula

    Love Like A Lion

    Performer: BBC Singers. Performer: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.1 in C minor Op.68

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Helen Grime

    Everyone Sang

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Jonathan Dove

    We are One Fire

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Neil Ferris.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Pilgrim's Progress- Sellinger's Round

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Pilgrim's Progress- Down Among The Dead Men

    Choir: BBC Singers.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Pilgrim's Progress - The Arming of Christian

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

Broadcast

  • Mon 13 Jul 202014:00
    BBC Radio 3