13 November 2007
Tuesday 13 November 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Pieces recorded as part of the Oxford Chamber Music Festival in September 2007.
Playlist:
1/4. The theme of the festival was the number seven - its mystical qualities and musical associations. Here, Beethoven's magnificent Septet, which was recorded at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, is heard alongside a piece by the festival's composer-in-resident, Michael Berkeley, taken from a concert given at the Holywell Music Rooms.
Berkeley: For the Savage Messiah
Priya Mitchell (violin)
Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
Jan-Erik Gustaffson (cello)
Zoran Markovic (double-bass)
Christian Hadland (piano)
Beethoven: Septet in E flat, Op 20
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Vladimir Mendelssohn (viola)
Jan-Erik Gustaffson (cello)
Zoran Markovic (double-bass)
Philippe Berrod (clarinet)
Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Olivier Darbellay (horn)
2.00pm
John Blackwood McEwen: Grey Galloway for orchestra (Border Ballad No 2)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Britten: A Charm of Lullabies
Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Elgar: In The South Overture, Op 50
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Walton: A Song for the Lord Mayor's table
Emma Bell (soprano)
Andrew West (piano)
Elgar: Concerto in B minor for violin and orchestra, Op 61
Tasmin Little (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
