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The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Live from Salford Quays

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Brahms and Mayer live from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s studio in Salford Quays.

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

The heart of today’s programme is a live concert from the players of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, at home in their Salford studio. Tom Fetherstonhaugh conducts Mayer’s Overture in D and the Symphony No. 2 by Brahms, part of a major focus this week on his symphonic music performed by our BBC Orchestras. We pay another visit to Hay on Wye for a double helping of Schubert, including the Carducci Quartet playing his early String Quartet in E flat. And we continue our focus this week on the superb Italian Baroque group Accademia Bizantina with a Vivaldi Violin Concerto performed last summer in Stockholm.

1pm
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 273
Alessandro Tampieri (violin)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord and director)

Franz Schubert
Impromptu in G flat major, Op. 90 No. 3
Charles Owen (piano)

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1.30pm - Live concert from MediaCity, Salford

Emilie Mayer
Overture No. 4 in D minor

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet in E flat major, D87
Carducci Quartet

Lili Boulanger
Introduction and Cortège
Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)

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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 273

    Performer: Alessandro Tampieri. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, Op. 90 No. 3

    Performer: Charles Owen.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Lyricist: Kathleen Easmon. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Overture in D minor

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tom Fetherstonhaugh.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tom Fetherstonhaugh.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in E flat major, D87

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.

  • Heinrich Schütz

    Das ist je gewisslich wahr, SWV.277

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.
    • Heinrich Schutz - Musicalische Exequien.
    • Ricercar.
    • 4.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto no.5 in F major Op.103 'Egyptian' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 2, 5 & Piano Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Introduction and cortege

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.

Broadcast

  • Wednesday13:00
    BBC Radio 3