An idiosyncratic version of Mozart’s Requiem from the stylish period instrument ensemble.
Ensemble Pygmalion performs Mozart’s Requiem
Playlist
Trad.: Plainsong ‘In paradisum’(3 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr)
Interspersed with:
Ach, zu kurz ist unsers Lebenslauf
Masonic Funeral Music
Kyrie in D minor, K. 90
Thamos, King of Egypt – ‘Ne pulvis et cinis’
Five Solfeggios – No. 2
Quis te comprehendat
Two Church Songs – No. 2: ‘O Gottes Lamm’
Chineke! performs Beethoven and Haydn
Anthony Parnther leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, and works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Valerie Coleman.
Playlist
Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Noveletten for String Orchestra, Op. 52
Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 1 – Rondo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
Boston Symphony Orchestra and Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Andris Nelsons leads works by Carlos Simon, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, and Igor Stravinsky
Playlist
Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
European premiere
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Maurice Ravel: La valse
Gemma New conducts the Firebird Suite
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs works by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Moussa.
Playlist
Samy Moussa: Symphony No. 2
BBC co-commission: European premiere
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird
Holst’s The Planets
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martín present the suite alongside Welsh composer Grace Williams’ Violin Concerto.
Playlist
Dora Pejačević: Overture
Grace Williams: Violin Concerto
Geneva Lewis, violin
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninoff
Rising-star conductor Klaus Mäkelä also reads works by Jimmy López Bellido and William Walton in a program that features renowned American baritone Thomas Hampson.
Playlist
Jimmy López Bellido: Perú negro
UK premiere
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang, piano
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Felix Klieser plays Mozart
Plus, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits present Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 alongside a work by Karabits’s own father.
Playlist
Ivan Karabits: Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, ‘A Musical Gift to Kyiv’
UK premiere
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major
Felix Klieser, horn
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is paired with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Playlist
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations
Plus Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto and a European premiere by Noriko Koide, all conducted by Elim Chan.
Playlist
Noriko Koide: Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain
BBC co-commission: European premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Edward Elgar: ‘Enigma’ Variations
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and violinist Elena Urioste in works by Rachmaninoff, Coleridge-Taylor, and Beethoven.
Playlist
Sergei Rachmaninoff (orch. Respighi): Five Études-tableaux
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor
Elena Urioste, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
