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Katie Derham presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak, plus a Surprise Piece.

Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015/16 concert season. Today's programme features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the orchestra's chief conductor Mariss Jansons, and includes a work which Jansons programmed as a 'surprise piece' to keep everyone guessing until the end.

2pm:
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

2.15pm:
Purcell: Bid the virtures, bid the Graces (from Come ye sons of art);
Steffani: Spezza amor
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

2.35pm:
Strauss: Don Quixote
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

3.20pm:
Surprise Piece
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

3.30pm:
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 29 Feb 2016 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major, Op.11

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.

  • Henry Purcell

    Bid the virtues, bid the Graces (Come ye sons of art)

    Orchestra: L'Accademia Giocosa. Singer: Anna Prohaska.

  • Agostino Steffani

    Spezza amor

    Orchestra: L'Accademia Giocosa. Singer: Anna Prohaska.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.

  • Jules Massenet

    Don Quichotte: Tristesse de dulcinee (encore)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.

  • Jose Elizondo

    Danzas Latinoamericanas (encore)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no. 8 in G major Op.88

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 34 No 1

    Performer: Janina Fialkowska.
    • Chopin Recital: Janina Fialkowska.
    • Atma Classique.
    • 2.

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