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Dvořák's Symphony No 7 from the Baltic Sea Festival

Alex Humphreys introduces an afternoon of great music-making including highlights from the Baltic Sea Festival and chamber music from the East Neuk Festival.

Alex Humphreys presents an afternoon of exclusive music-making from the UK and beyond, with performances captured at two major European festivals. From the East Neuk Festival in Scotland, there’s Mozart’s Serenade alongside intimate piano music by Scarlatti, Poulenc and Couperin. From the Baltic Sea Festival, Dvořák’s sweeping Seventh Symphony brings drama and intensity, alongside the expressive vocal music of Marini and Caccini and the colourful chamber textures of Berwald’s Grand Septet.

East Neuk Festival:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade K.375
English Concert Winds

East Neuk Festival:
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata C minor K 158
Francis Poulenc: Improvisation 15 "Hommage à Edith Piaf“
François Couperin: Les Ombres Errantes
Christian Zacharias (piano)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Baltic Sea Festival
Biagio Marini
Passacaglia, from 'Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, op. 22'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Baltic Sea Festival
Giulio Caccini
Amarilli, mia bella, from 'Le Nuove Musiche'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Franz Berwald
Grand Septet in B flat
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, (members of the orchestra)
Czech Philharmonic, (members of the orchestra)

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Suite from 'Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80'

    Orchestra: Estonian Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade K.375

    Ensemble: English Concert Winds.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C minor Kk.158

    Performer: Christian Zacharias.

  • Francis Poulenc

    15 Improvisations for piano: XV; "L'hommage à Édith Piaf"

    Performer: Christian Zacharias.

  • François Couperin

    Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 25: i. Les Ombres errantes

    Performer: Christian Zacharias.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.

  • Biagio Marini

    Passacaglia, from 'Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, Op. 22'

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro.

  • Giulio Caccini

    Amarilli, mia bella, from 'Le Nuove Musiche'

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro.

  • Franz Berwald

    Grand Septet in B flat

    Performer: Henrik Naimak Meyers. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - members. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic - members.

  • William Boyce

    Wherewithal Shall a Young Man

    Performer: Gary Cooper. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Boyce: Select Anthems.
    • CRD Records.
    • 2.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Piano Concerto 'The World of Yesterday'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.

  • Béla Bartók

    String Quartet No.3

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday13:00
    BBC Radio 3