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Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven in concert from the Cotswolds

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including pianist Imogen Cooper playing late Beethoven at the Tetbury Music Festival.

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

Today, we return to this year’s Tetbury Music Festival for another late Beethoven sonata performed by Imogen Cooper, and choral group Polyphony singing music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. There’s an enticing selection of music by Nicola Matteis played by French baroque ensemble Le Consort from this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival, and at 2pm our orchestra in focus this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, perform Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra.

1303
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Prelude to Act 1)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Imogen Cooper (piano)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Shakespeare Songs
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Nicola Matteis
Sarabanda Amorosa, Adagio and Diverse Bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona
Le Consort

1400
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Marta Gardolinska (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach transc. Busoni
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Chorale Prelude BWV 659
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

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1 hour, 58 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Dec 202413:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg')

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • GBBBC.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat major, op 110

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Three Shakespeare Songs

    Choir: Polyphony. Director: Stephen Layton.

  • Nicola Matteis Sr.

    Sarabanda Amorosa

    Ensemble: Le Consort.

  • Nicola Matteis Sr.

    Adagio

    Ensemble: Le Consort.

  • Nicola Matteis Sr.

    Diverse Bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Le Consort.

  • Boris Ord

    Adam lay y-bounden

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Festival Of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • London.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Concerto for orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marta Gardolińska.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659)

    Performer: Giorgi Gigashvili. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso No. 12 in D minor, Op. 5 ('La Follia')

    Ensemble: Le Consort.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E major, Op 62 No 2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Tibetan Winter (4 World Seasons)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Graham Bradshaw. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Dec 202413:00
    BBC Radio 3