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A Week in Munich (1/5)

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in concert. Simon Rattle conducts music from Mozart to Mahler, and Igor Levit plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in concert with Simon Rattle and Igor Levit: Rattle conducts music from Mozart to Mahler and Levit plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with Franz Welser-M枚st conducting. Simon Rattle was recently announced as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's next Chief Conductor, and he begins and ends this series of programmes featuring their recent concerts.

Mozart: Overture to 'The Marriage of Figaro'
Mahler: R眉ckert-Lieder
with Magdalena Ko啪en谩 (mezzo-soprano)
Dukas: Fanfare from La P茅ri
Ravel: Mother Goose (complete ballet)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Simon Rattle

c. 3.15pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19
with Igor Levit (piano)
Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major, K.504 ('Prague')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Franz Welser-M枚st

This Bavarian Radio SO series will also feature two more concerts conducted by British musicians. In the second programme Daniel Harding conducts music by Benjamin Britten, Giovanni Gabrieli, Toru Takemitsu and Richard Strauss, and you can also hear short concerts conducted by Italian Giovanni Antonini and Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv. In the third programme British composer Thomas Ad猫s conducts works by Janacek and Britten as well as his own recent Piano Concerto with the pianist for whom it was written, Kirill Gerstein. Thursday's Opera Matinee features a recent Bavarian State Opera staging of Verdi's last opera, the sparkling Shakespearean comedy Falstaff, plus summer music from the Bavarian Radio SO. In the final programme Igor Levit returns to play Beethoven's First Piano Concerto (which he wrote after his so-called Second Piano Concerto), Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Bavarian Radio SO in Schumann and the Bavarian Radio Chorus in Latin American music, and the week ends with Simon Rattle conducting Messiaen's masterpiece for wind and percussion, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 5 Apr 2021 14:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    March (from Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z.860)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    March (from Funeral Music for Queen Mary)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ruckert-Lieder

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Paul Dukas

    La Peri - Fanfare

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mere l'oye - ballet

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphonies of Wind Instruments

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major Op.19

    Performer: Igor Levit. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.

  • Ant么nio Carlos Jobim

    Luiza

    Performer: Igor Levit. Music Arranger: Fred Hersch.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 38 in D major K.504 (Prague)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Heinrich Braun. Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Clarinet Concerto / Serenade No. 11 (Symphonieorchester.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Apr 2021 14:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3