1 June 2005
Wednesday 1 June 2005 14:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
Tommy Pearson presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Orchestras and BBC Singers in performances of Bernstein's own music and key works that he premiered or championed, including the music of Mahler, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Copland and Britten, including excerpts from the complete cycle of Bernstein's symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Today's programme features the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Barber, Sibelius and Shostakovich, all of whom were championed by Bernstein. Plus a Bernstein symphony, and his Missa Brevis for chorus and percussion.
Playlist:
Barber: Adagio
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Bernstein: Missa Brevis
Simon Baker (counter-tenor)
BBC Singers
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 in F
Paul Lewis (piano)
Kazuski Ono (conductor)
Bernstein: Symphony No 3 Kaddish
Jamie Bernstein (speaker)
London Oratory School Schola
BBC Symphony Chorus
Leonard Slatkin
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