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Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Singers

Tuesday 26 April 2005 14:00-15:40 (Radio 3)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales take up the Scandinavian theme with music by Sibelius and Rautavaara. And there's a contribution from the BBC Singers with
music by the Finnish composers Toivo Kuula and Aulis Sallinen.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Duration:

1 hour 40 minutes

Playlist:

Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night, opening to Act III
David Porcelijn (conductor)

Sibelius: Valse Triste and Cranes (from Kuolema)
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Kuula Karavaanikuoro
Jennifer Adams-Barbaro (soprano)
Robert Johnston (tenor)
BBC Singers

Sallinen: The Beaufort Scale
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto, no 2 in Gm
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Rautavaara: Symphony no 8, The Journey
Petri Sakari (conductor)




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