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BBC SSO perform Rachmaninov / Edinburgh Royal Choral Union news.

Jamie has the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert & news about a very special collaboration this month featuring Edinburgh Royal Choral Union & Brussels Choral Society.

Jamie MacDougall has the the very best in classical music from Scotland and beyond including a concert performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus we hear from Michael Bawtree, Chorus Director of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, who shares news of a very special collaboration happening in Scotland this month featuring the Brussels Choral Society.

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Sun 1 Mar 202619:00
BBC Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Johann Strauss

    Radetzky-Marsch, Op 228

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 3.

  • Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton & The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge

    Poulenc: Gloria, FP 177: I. Gloria in excelsis Deo

    • Poulenc: Gloria & Motets.
    • Hyperion.

  • Britten Sinfonia, Polyphony, Stephen Layton & The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge

    Poulenc: Gloria, FP 177: II. Laudamus te

    • Poulenc: Gloria & Motets.
    • Hyperion.

  • Matthew Best, Corydon Singers & Corydon Orchestra

    Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D Minor, WAB 26: IV. Sanctus

    • Bruckner: Te Deum; Mass No. 1 in D Minor.
    • Hyperion.

  • Corydon Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Alastair Miles, Corydon Singers, Matthew Best, Keith Lewis & Joan Rodgers

    Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D Minor, WAB 26: V. Benedictus

    • Bruckner: Te Deum; Mass No. 1 in D Minor.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergei Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

    Performer: Alessio Bax. Conductor: Gemma New. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings in C Major, Movt 1. Pezzo in forma di sonatina

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich For Strings.
    • Linn.
    • 001.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings 2

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich For Strings.
    • Linn.
    • 002.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings 3

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich For Strings.
    • Linn.
    • 003.

  • Ingrid Fliter, Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Jun Märkl

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: I. Allegro maestoso

    • Chopin: Piano Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ravel : Le tombeau de Couperin

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Mar 202619:00
    BBC Radio Scotland