Saturday Afternoon Concert

Saturday afternoon concert of orchestral music (including choral orchestral items), from Baroque to contemporary, featuring a major work each week.


30th May

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  • Shostakovich, Dmitri: Concerto No.1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet & Strings, Op.35. Marc-Andre Hamelin, pno., Mark O'Keeffe, tpt. BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Litton.
  • Prokofiev, Sergei: Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63. Maxim Vengerov, vln. London SO/Mstislav Rostropovitch.
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich: The Queen of Spades: Vy tak pichal'ny, daragaja. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, bar. Rotterdam PO/Valery Gergiev.
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei: Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27. Tasmanian SO/Patrick Thomas.

    • 23rd May

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  • Menotti, Gian Carlo: Overture - Amelia al ballo. Columbia SO/Thomas Schippers.
  • Chadwick, George Whitefield: Symphonic Sketches in A. Detroit SO/Neeme Jarvi.
  • Barber, Samuel: Violin Concerto in G, Op.14. Joshua Bell, vln. Baltimore SO/David Zinman.
  • Hanson, Howard: Symphony No.2, Op.30, 'Romantic'. Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.
  • Gershwin, George: Porgy and Bess (Highlights). Barbara Hendricks, sop., Leona Mitchell, sop., Willard White, bass Cleveland Orch, Cleveland Orch Chorus/Lorin Maazel.

    • 16th May

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  • Smetana, Bedrich: The kiss, overture. Czech State PO/Robert Stankovsky.
  • Suk, Josef: Fairy Tale, Op.16. Czech Philharmonic/Jiri Belohlavek
  • Dvorak, Antonin: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.33, B63. Sviatoslav Richter, pno. Bavarian State Orch/Carlos Kleiber.
  • Martinu, Bohuslav: Symphony No.3. BBC Symphony Orch/Jiri Belohlavek

    • 9th May

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  • Wagner R: Tannhauser, Overture. London SO/Barry Tuckwell.
  • Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op.90. Berlin PO/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
  • Brahms, Johannes: Nanie, Op.82. San Francisco SO, San Francisco Symphony Chorus/Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Elgar, Sir Edward: Introduction and Allegro Op.47. Allegri String Quartet, Sinfonia of London/Sir John Barbirolli.
  • Elgar, Sir Edward: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85. Beatrice Harrison, vlc. New SO/Sir Edward Elgar.

    • 2nd May

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  • A special RADIOTHON edition with guest co-persenter Ruth O'Reilly, and including highlights from Saturday Afternoon Concert programs over the past twelve months.
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph: 4thSymphony No. 92 in G, Hob.I:92 - Oxford. La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken.
  • Suk, Josef: ist Movt., Serenade for Strings in E flat, Op.6. Czech PO/Jiri Belohlavek.
  • Vivaldi, Antonio: Flute concerto in D, RV428, Op.10/3, Il Gardellino. Emmanuel Pahud, fte. Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.
  • Finzi, Gerald: Eclogue in F, Op.10. Peter Donohoe, pno. Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths.
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van: Kyrie from Mass in C, Op.86. Alastair Miles, bass, Catherine Robbin, m-sop., Charlotte Margiono, sop., William Kendall, ten. Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  • Schumann, Robert: 1st Movet from Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97, Rhenish. Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

    • 25th April

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  • Tubin, Eduard: Music for strings. Swedish RSO/Neeme Jarvi.
  • Shostakovich, Dmitri: Piano Concerto No.2 in F, Op.102. Dmitri Shostakovich Jr, pno. I Musici de Montreal/Maxim Shostakovich.
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Op.125, 'Choral'. Gwyneth Jones, sop., Hanna Schwarz, alto., Rene Kollo, ten., Kurt Moll, bass. Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orch/Leonard Bernstein.

    • 18th April

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  • Mendelssohn, Felix: The Hebrides, Fingal's Cave, Op.26, Overture. London SO/Claudio Abbado.
  • Le Gallienne, Dorian: Sinfonietta. Odyssey 32161050. Melbourne SO/John Hopkins.
  • Hill, Alfred: Violin Concerto in E minor. Alwyn Elliott, vln. Sydney SO/Joseph Post.
  • Brull: Piano Concerto No 1 in F major, op 10, Martin Roscoe, pno., BBC Scottish Symphony Orch/Martyn Brabbins
  • Schumann, Robert: Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97, Rhenish. Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman.

    • 11th April

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  • Smetana, Bedrich: Bartered Bride - Overture. Minneapolis SO/Antal Dorati.
  • Dvorak, Antonin: The Wood Dove, Op.110, B198. Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann.
  • Dvorak, Antonin: Rusalka - Final scene. Renee Fleming, sop., Ben Heppner, ten., Czech Philharmonic Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.
  • Suk, Josef: Symphony in C minor, Op.27 'Asrael'. Czech Philharnonic Orch/Jukr Belohlavek

    • 4th April

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  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Clarinet Concerto in A, K622. Sabine Meyer, cl. Dresden State Orch/Hans Vonk.
  • Hindemith, Paul: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Britten: Piano Concerto in D major, Op 13. Steven Osborn, pno., BBC Scottish Symphony Orch/Ilan Volkov
  • Walton, Sir William: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith. Cleveland Orch/George Szell.

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