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Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Today's programme features music spanning the centuries, from Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto to the world premiere of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto. Also along the way, another concerto: Ginastera's zestful Harp Concerto, and music by the late American composer Stephen Paulus.

2pm
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No 1 in G major, Op 11 No 1
Mozart: Serenade No 12 in C minor, K388
Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F major (American) arr. for string orchestra
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

3.05pm
J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Stephen Paulus: Mass for a Sacred Place
Kathy Kienzle (harp)
Minnesota Chorale
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo V盲nsk盲 (conductor)

4.20pm
Sally Beamish: Piano Concerto No 3 (City Stanzas) - World Premiere performance
Jonathan Biss (piano)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Mischa Santora (conductor)

The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today, there's a chance to hear two concerts from their 2016/17 seasons. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra begin with a programme that pairs Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Mozart, before offering a rare chance to hear the orchestration of Dvorak's 'American' String Quartet.

After that, a short ride down the Interstate 94 takes us to Minneapolis, and a concert from the Minnesota Orchestra with Music Director Osmo V盲nsk盲. The Orchestra's principal harp, Kathy Kienzle, is in the spotlight for Ginastera's Harp Concerto, and the programme ends with a work by the late American composer and frequent Minnesota Orchestra collaborator Stephen Paulus.

To finish today, the world premiere performance of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto, given a year ago by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Jonathan Biss. Subtitled 'City Stanzas', it was commissioned by today's soloist as part of a project to create new piano concertos inspired by the five concertos of Beethoven. Sally Beamish took Beethoven's First Piano Concerto as a starting point and re-imagined it in a modern urban environment.