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Brahms's First Symphony from Prague

Tom McKinney introduces concert performances of Brahms’s First Symphony and Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra from Prague, and music by Mozart and Coleridge-Taylor.

Tom McKinney ends the week with more concert performances from around Europe including Brahms’s Symphony No.1 & Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra from Prague, and music by Mozart, Ethel Smyth, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Francesco Cesarini. Plus there’ll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d’Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

John Williams – Olympic Fanfare and Theme (for the Los Angeles Games, 1984)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
John Williams (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Petite Suite de Concert
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Lutoslawski – Concerto for Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

3pm
Brahms – Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.18
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Trad. Bulgarian arr. Avi Avital – Bucimis
Avi Avital (mandolin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

Franco Cesarini – Bulgarian Dances II, Op.43
Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band
José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)

c. 4.10pm
Mozart – Symphony No.10 in G, K.74
Vespres d’Arnadi
Dani Espasa (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

2 hours, 32 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Feb 202214:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Williams

    Olympic Fanfare and Theme

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: John Williams.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.

  • Michel Lambert

    Ma bergère est tendre et fidèle

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.

  • Pierre Guédron

    Aux plaisir aux délices bergères

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Liebreich.

  • Traditional Bulgarian

    Bucimis

    Performer: Avi Avital. Music Arranger: Avi Avital.

  • Franco Cesarini

    Bulgarian Dances II, Op.43

    Ensemble: Barcelona Symphonic Band. Conductor: Franco Cesarini.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.10 in G, K.74

    Orchestra: Vespres d'Arnadí. Conductor: Dani Espasa.

  • Cole Porter

    Kiss me Kate (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John McGlinn.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Feb 202214:00
    BBC Radio 3