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Thursday - Vaughan Williams 150: Purcell, inspiration

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers, plus music by Vaughan Williams, Tippett and Gipps.

Ian Skelly introduces another afternoon of music as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams, with live recordings of music by the composers himself alongside those who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.

Today at 3pm, Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, one of the English composers most admired by Vaughan Williams. The BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba present new recordings of works by one of his students at the Royal College of Music, Ruth Gipps, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play music by his contemporary Michael Tippett.

Including:

Gipps: Chanticleer Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium
Tippett: Plebs anglica
BBC Singers
Paul Brough, conductor

c.2.15pm
Tippett: Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

Butterworth: Fantasia for orchestra (completed by Kriss Russman)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kirss Russman, conductor

c.3pm
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Gipps: Oboe Concerto, Op.20
Juliana Koch, oboe
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor

3 hours, 1 minute

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Thu 13 Oct 202214:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ruth Gipps

    Chanticleer

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O Sacrum Convivium

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Paul Brough.

  • Michael Tippett

    Plebs anglica

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Paul Brough.

  • Michael Tippett

    Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.

  • George Butterworth

    Fantasia

    Music Arranger: Kriss Russman. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • Butterworth: Orchestral Fantasia etc..
    • BIS.
    • 19.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Horn Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Peter Francomb. Performer: Victor Sangiorgio.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Hubert Parry

    Lady Radnor's Suite

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 313.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Concerto

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba. Performer: Juliana Koch.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alain Altinoglu.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Susanna ab improbis senibus (Susannah seeing herself beset by the wicked elders)

    Performer: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

Broadcast

  • Thu 13 Oct 202214:00
    BBC Radio 3