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Friday - Musical Geography

Today, Telemann's Musical Geography, Schumann's First Symphony and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. Presented by Penny Gore.

Penny Gore introduces performances by BBC ensembles and groups around Europe. Today, Czech Ensemble Baroque with Musical Geography, a compilation assembled in 1959 by Adolf Hoffmann from several Telemann Ouverture-Suites depicting European countries and even America. Also, Schumann's Symphony No. 1 'Spring' with the Ulster Orchestra; we hear again from the Latvian Radio Choir singing Arvo Pärt's Seven Magnificat Antiphons; also, Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Brahms's Clarinet Quintet, performed by Sabine Meyer and the Armida Quartet.

Including:

Handel: Sarabande, from Suite No. 4 in D minor, HWV 437
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, director

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Yutaka Sado, conductor

Telemann: Klingende Geographie - Musical Geography
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Válek, conductor

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 'Spring'
Ulster Orchestra

Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Kļava, conductor

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Armida Quartet

2 hours, 32 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 Jan 202214:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande, from 'Suite No. 4 in D minor, HWV 437'

    Performer: Stéphanie-Marie Degand. Performer: Jonathan Manson. Performer: Paul Kieffer. Performer: Clara Blessing. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Ensemble: Arcangelo.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hebrides Overture

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Klingende Geographie (Musical Geography)

    Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque. Conductor: Roman Válek.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.1, Spring

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Seven Magnificat Antiphons

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Armida Quartett.

  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 Jan 202214:00
    BBC Radio 3