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Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony

The Ulster Orchestra plays Vaughan Williams's uplifting Fifth Symphony, and Rachel Podger plays Mozart with the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales.

Ian Skelly presents concert performances from across Europe and from the Â鶹Éç performing groups, this week featuring the Ulster Orchestra every day at 3pm. Today, the orchestra performs Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5. Plus, Rachel Podger is the soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No.1 with the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales, George Walker in Frankfurt, and highlights of a concert collaboration in Denmark between Nordic folk trio Dreamer's Circus and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Mozart: The Magic Flute – Overture
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski (cond.)

George Walker: Icarus in Orbit
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolff (cond.)

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (cond.)

Ale Carr: Bridge of Tears
Dreamers’ Circus
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Christian Oland (cond.)

Verdi: È strano! ... Ah, fors' è lui (La Traviata)
Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh (soprano)
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Symphony Orchestra
Alejo Pérez (cond.)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

3pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5
Ulster Orchestra
Jamie Phillips (cond.)

Trad. Danish: folk medley
Dreamers’ Circus

c.4pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1
Rachel Podger (violin/dir.)
Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales

Philip Glass: The City (Akhnaten)
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (cond.)

J.S. Bach: Cantata No.174 – Sinfonia
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (cond.)

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Tue 19 Sep 2023 14:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to 'Die Zauberflöte'

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tarmo Peltokoski.
  • George Walker

    Icarus in Orbit

    Performer: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival overture

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
  • Ale Carr

    Bridge of tears

    Music Arranger: Christoffer Møller. Ensemble: Dreamers’ Circus. Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Christian Oland.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    È strano! ... Ah, fors' è lui, Violetta's aria from 'La Traviata'

    Singer: Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Conductor: Alejo Pérez.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight'

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No.5

    Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
  • Traditional (Denmark)

    folk medley

    Ensemble: Dreamers’ Circus. Conductor: Christian Øland.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Sinfonietta

    • Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat major, K 207

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales.
  • Krists Auznieks

    Grace

    Orchestra: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tarmo Peltokoski.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus, D 899, Op 90 (No 3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Dance)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • NAXOS.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • GBÂ鶹Éç.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.174 'Ich liebe den Hochsten von ganzem Gemute' (Sinfonia concerto)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach - Cantatas Volume 50.
    • BIS.
    • 13.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata in E flat major, H.16.52 (finale)

    Performer: Andreas Staier.
    • Andreas Staier Edition.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Sep 2023 14:00