Striggio's 40-part Mass from Montpellier

Available for 27 days

Al Ryan with exclusive concert recordings including part of a distinctive and spectacular mass setting for 40 voices by the 16th Century Italian composer Alessandro Striggio recorded at last year's Montpellier Festival with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel. Plus more chamber music highlights from the recent Belfast International Chamber Music Festival including pianist Jeneba Kannah-Mason performing Bach and Chopin. Also in today's programme, the next in the series of Wednesday afternoon concerts from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra that will take us into spring. Today the orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Dorothy Howell and Richard Strauss's elegiac Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings. Alessandro Striggio Mass for 40 solo voices ('Ecco si beato giorno') (excerpt) Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet (conductor) Belfast International Chamber Music Festival: Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV. 829 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano) 13:30 THE BBC PHILHARMONIC WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT Richard Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings Dorothy Howell Lamia Ludwig van Beethoven Overture - Leonore No. 3 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Yoel Gamzou (conductor) Belfast International Chamber Music Festival: Frederic Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op. 47 Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)