Vox Luminis sing Bach's B minor mass

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

We end the week with a concert performance of Bach’s B minor mass from Vox Luminis, our ensemble in focus. Recorded at last year’s Wratislava Cantans Festival, the Belgium Baroque vocal group and the musicians of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra are conducted by Lionel Meunier in Bach’s monumental masterpiece.

Plus we return to two of the world’s finest classical venues for more world-class music-making: the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra play Farrenc and Hermann in Hamburg’s spectacular Elbphilmarmonie; and there’s music by a prodigious Erich Korngold played by a trio of former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists – violinist Johan Dalene, cellist Andres Brantelid and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland – from London’s Wigmore Hall.

1pm
Louise Farrenc
Overture in E flat, Op. 24
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Piano Trio, Op. 1
Johan Dalene (violin)
Andreas Brantelid (cello)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo Suite (Prelude, The Nightmare, Scène d’amour)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Juraj Valčuha (conductor)

George Frideric Handel
Minuet in G
Anne Queffélec (piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV232
Vox Luminis
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Lionel Meunier (conductor

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