Radio 3 in Concert

Saturday 29th September 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Live from the Barbican, BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the exact centenary of The Planets premiere. Presented by Penny Gore Holst: The Planets Suite Op.32 2020 Interval: a mix-tape dream sequence of planetary and astrologically inspired music, interwoven with works influenced by Holst's the Planets. 2040 Holst: The Planets Suite Op.32 continued Women's Voices of the BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Ben Gernon (conductor) Inspired by the mythological character of each planet, Holst created what has become one of the 20th century's best-loved and most revered works for orchestra. On the centenary of its premiere, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ben Gernon join forces with Professor Brian Cox to take a fresh scientific and musical view of The Planets, and to cast new light on Holst's vividly atmospheric masterpiece.

Monday 1st October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Internationally acclaimed artists join forces for this all-Schumann programme recorded last week at Wigmore Hall. 'If I ever stop finding music challenging and life-altering, I'll quit and become an accountant,' says American pianist Jonathan Biss. Happily for music lovers, Jonathan Biss has stuck with the piano and has continues to garner an impressive list of awards for his performances and recordings. He's joined by the equally celebrated Elias Quartet, one of the UK's leading ensembles; they're regular collaborators and this promises to be an evening of memorable music-making. Presented by Natasha Riordan. Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 String Quartet in F Op. 41, No. 2 Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 Jonathan Biss (piano) Elias string Quartet Sara Bitlloch and Donald Grant (violins) Simone van der Giessen (viola) Marie Bitlloch (cello).

Tuesday 2nd October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

In the second of the Philharmonia's season-opening concerts, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Wagner, Schoenberg and Bruckner at their most heartfelt. Exploring the nature and intensity of love, Wagner brings to life the tragic beauty in the story of Tristan und Isolde, while the lyricism of Schoenberg's early tone poem Verklärte Nacht reveals his feelings for the woman he would later marry. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony (one of his most popular works) is a musical monument to Wagner. Bruckner began writing it in anticipation of Wagner's death (as he was in poor health), and featured four Wagner tubas - the first time the instrument appeared in a symphony. Far from being mournful, the work is ultimately optimistic in character, with the final brass fanfare rounding off this late-romantic programme in a triumphant orchestral flourish. Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London Presented by Ian Skelly Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht c.8.20 Interval Bruckner: Symphony No 7 Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).

Thursday 4th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka takes to the stage with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for the opening concert of their season, live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff and presented by Nicola Heyward Thomas. Vaughan Williams' deeply personal depictions of English music dominates the first half, from the chants and echoes of an English Renaissance cathedral in his haunting Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, to his setting of Robert Lewis Stevenson's Songs of Travel, for which the Orchestra will be joined by Sir Thomas Allen. This is contrasted in the second half by Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in the famous orchestration by Ravel. A tribute to his departed friend, the artist Victor Hartmann, Pictures at an Exhibition takes the listener around an exhibition of ten of Hartmann's paintings, culminating in The Great Gate of Kiev. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel 8.15 Interval Music Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

Wednesday 10th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Andras Schiff, one of the world's most renowned musicians, plays a sequence of three late, great Schubert piano Sonatas which broke new expressive and emotional ground in their shift away from the Beethovenian drama towards a more expansive and lyrical model. Sarah Walker presents, live from Wigmore Hall Piano Sonata in Piano Sonata in A minor D845 Piano Sonata in D D850 Interval Fantasy Sonata in G D894 Andras Schiff (piano).

Sunday 14th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:15 to 22:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)

Highlights from the Verbier Festival 25th Anniversary Gala, recorded in July this year at Verbier. The term "stellar" is greatly overused, but it really does apply here. The astonishing line-up of artists includes Andras Schiff, Evgeny Kissin, Richard Goode, Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov, Renaud Capucon, Mischa Maisky, Vilde Frang and many, many more. Kate Molleson presents. Programme includes: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G, BWV1048 Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov, Vladim Repin, Leonidas Kavakos, Vilde Frang, Ilya Gringolts, Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capucon (violin) Tabea Zimmermann, Nobuko Imai, Gerard Causse (viola) Mischa Maisky, Andrei Ionita, Edgar Moreau (cello) Smetana: Sonata for two pianos, 8 hands Seong-Jin Cho, Andras Schiff, Evgeny Kissin, Yuja Wang (piano) Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus - Overture Verbier Festival Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor).

Tuesday 16th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Newly appointed Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Thomas Sondergard begins this evening's concert with Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, before former Cardiff singer of the world winner and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Catriona Morison joins them to perform Ravel's exotic orchestral song cycle Sheherazade. The concert closes with Rachmaninov's hugely ambitious and passionate First Symphony that he believed 'opened up entirely new paths'. It was dedicated rather enigmatically to' A.L' thought to be Anna Lodïzhenskaya, the wife of a friend and it shares the biblical quotation 'Vengeance is mine, I shall repay' which was also used to preface Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. We can only speculate as to what if anything was the relationship between the composer and this Anna. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No1 Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No2 Ravel: Shéhérazade Interval: Sibelius En Saga Op. 9, BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Rachmaninov Symphony No1 Catriona Morison - mezzo soprano Thomas Sondergard - conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra Presenter - Kate Molleson Producer - Laura Metcalfe.

Wednesday 24th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

As part of the celebrations marking 100 years since Czech and Slovak independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czech Philharmonic and their newly-appointed Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov bring and all-Czech programme to the Duke's Hall at the Royal Academy of Music. Semyon Bychkov also holds the RAM's Otto Klemperer Chair of Conducting and RAM students will be sharing the stage with the Czech Philharmonic for the first piece, Smetana's The Bartered Bride Overture to get the celebrations off to a suitably jolly start. Martin Handley presents. Smetana: The Bartered Bride Overture Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 Dvorák: Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 Semyon Bychkov conductor Alisa Weilerstein (cello) Czech Philharmonic Academy string, woodwind and brass students Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

Monday 5th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

From BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas Adrian Partington and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform a concert marking the centenary of WWI, concluding with the long awaited premiere of Stanford: Mass Via Victrix. 7.30 Farrar: Rhapsody No 1 - The Open Road, Op 9 Kelly: Elegy for strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin 8.20 Interval Stanford: Mass Via Victrix Kiandra Howarth (soprano) Jess Dandy (contralto) Ruairi Bowen (tenor) Gareth Brynmor John (baritone) BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Adrian Partington (conductor) To commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales present a concert of music for the fallen souls from the war, concluding with the premiere of Stanford's Mass Via Victrix, 99 years after its composition. The Orchestra begins by commemorating a little-known composer who fell in the war, Ernest Farrar, with his orchestral Rhapsody The Open Road, written in 1909 and loosely based on Walt Whitman's poem Song for the Open Road. Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke was written while the composer was recuperating from the Battle of Gallipoli and is dedicated to the poet Rupert Brooke, whose midnight burial on the Isle of Skyros is one of the more well-known episodes from the early part of the war. Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin completes the concert's first part, a piece whose movements are each dedicated to a different friend who died fighting in the war. Stanford's Mass Via Victrix encapsulates both a sense of relief and celebration for the allied victory, but also a deep sense of mourning for the tragic loss of those who fell. Although it was completed in December 1919 the work has never been performed in full, and the full manuscript score has been painstakingly transcribed into performing parts by Stanford scholar Jeremy Dibble. During the interval Jeremy will talk about the challenges involved in that undertaking.

Friday 9th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Live from Wigmore Hall - The Takacs Quartet play Haydn, Bartok and Brahms, Wigmore Hall's Associate Artists begin their programme with the fourth of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets.' It was this collection that defined the nature of the string quartet for over a hundred years. One of Brahms's first published quartets sees him striving to model each movement on a tiny motif and Bartók's first quartet mourns an unhappy love affair. Presented by Ian Skelly. Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 Sz.40 Interval Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Takács Quartet.

Sunday 11th November 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long)

The London Sinfonietta marks Armistice Day with Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, a powerfully emotional work that dwells on family separations engendered by warfare. Penderecki: Fanfare for orchestra Górecki: Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Op.36 Elizabeth Atherton, soprano London Sinfonietta David Atherton, conductor Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London Presented by Ian Skelly.

Sunday 11th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:19 (1 hour and 49 minutes long)

A live performance for Remembrance Day of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem by the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, and presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas from St. David's Hall, Cardiff. Written for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral in 1960, after the original building was tragically destroyed by bombs during the Second World War, Britten's War Requiem interspersed the words of the Mass for the Dead with the poetry of Wilfred Owen. This combination creates a powerful narrative that speaks of the mourning of the souls lost in the war, but also of the futility of war itself. The words are set to incredibly powerful music which moves between a large orchestra and chorus, a chamber orchestra and soloists, and an off stage boys chorus. Britten: War Requiem, Op 66 Susan Bullock (soprano) Allan Clayton (tenor) Roman Trekel (baritone) BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Gloucester Cathedral Boy Choristers Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Choir Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Nia Llewelyn (assistant conductor).

Monday 12th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on Sunday 11th November. To mark Armistice Day, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs Brahms' German Requiem. Presented by Martin Handley. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem Elizabeth Watts, soprano James Newby, baritone Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Choir of the Enlightenment Marin Alsop, conductor Music written for the Requiem Mass was usually performed in Latin. But Brahms broke the mould with this colossal, German-language masterpiece, which treats death from a humanistic perspective.

Tuesday 13th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Internationally acclaimed pianist Paul Lewis continues his two year recital series revealing connections between Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms. Brahms's Op.116 Fantasies are characteristic of his late works, at once introspective and melancholy, qualities shared by parts of Haydn's C minor Sonata; Beethoven's Op.33 Bagatelles are his first set, a series of miniature distillations of his piano style, by turns humorous, dramatic and improvisatory. They're contrasted with Haydn's last and most expansive sonata, the form which Beethoven came to dominate. Ian Skelly presents. Brahms: 7 Fantasias, Op.116 Haydn: Sonata in C minor, Hob.XVI/20 Interval Beethoven: 7 Bagatelles, Op.33 Haydn: Sonata in E flat, Hob.XVI/52 Paul Lewis (piano).

Wednesday 28th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Presented by Kate Molleson The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard perform Debussy's orchestral music, and they are joined by legendary pianist Joaquín Achúcarro for Ravel. Debussy: Nocturnes Ravel: Concerto for Piano (Left Hand) 8.20 Interval 8.40 Part 2 Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Debussy: La Mer Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices Joaquín Achúcarro (piano) Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Thursday 6th December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas Handel composed Messiah at break-neck speed in London in the summer of 1741, before travelling to Dublin to produce a series of concerts there. One of these concerts became the premiere of Messiah, and it was an unbridled success, which led in only a handful of years to it being firmly established in the repertoire and being repeated annually. It was just what Handel needed at this time; the flop of what would be his final opera, Deidamia, in 1740 had seriously knocked him, but Handel's Messiah restored his fame, and today is his most performed work. Stephen Layton is no stranger to the work, having performed it with incredible regularity and also recorded it with his choir Polyphony, and brings a very high level of experience to this majestic work. Handel: Messiah, HWV. 56 8.20 Interval music Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Parts Two and Three) Katherine Watson (soprano) Iestyn Davies (counter tenor) Gwilym Bowen (tenor) Neal Davies (bass) BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Stephen Layton (conductor).

Tuesday 11th December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Acclaimed throughout the world as one the leading performers of classical piano repertoire, Mitsuko Uchida brings the second programme of her international Schubert Sonata survey to the Royal Festival Hall. The concert begins with Schubert's early A minor sonata and ends with his last. From its mysteriously muted and introspective opening bars, through the alienation and isolation of its slow movement, its delicate scherzo and folksy finale, the late great B flat Sonata at first confounded audiences and players, and it wasn't until the 20th Century that it became an essential cornerstone of the repertoire. Recorded last week and presented by Martin Handley. Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D.537 Sonata in C, D.840 (Reliquie) Interval Sonata in B flat, D.960 Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Photograph of Mitsuko Uchida (c) Geoffroy Schied.

Wednesday 12th December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Two leading singers, soprano Louise Alder and countertenor Tim Mead join Jonathan Cohen and his period-instrument orchestra, Arcangelo, for cantatas by Scarlatti, Handel and the latter's onetime rival, the Neapolitan Porpora - prolific vocal composer and teacher of the famed castrato Farinelli. Recorded on Friday 7 December at Wigmore Hall. Presented by Ian Skelly. Part one: Alessandro Scarlatti : Cantata: Piango, sospiro, e peno Alessandro Scarlatti: Clori e Mirtillo George Frideric Handel : Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 HWV386b Nicola Porpora : Ecco che il primo albore Interval music: Lodovico Giustini : Sonatina No 1 in G minor Linda Nicholson (pianoforte) Pietro Domenico Paradisi : Sonata No 10 in D major Linda Nicholson (pianoforte) Part two: Nicola Porpora: Il ritiro; Sinfonia da camera in G minor Op. 2 No. 3 George Frideric Handel: Cantata: Amarilli Vezzosa (Il Duello Amoroso) HWV82 Louise Alder soprano Tim Mead countertenor Arcangelo: Sophie Gent violin Louis Creach violin Max Mandel viola Jonathan Byers cello Thomas Dunford lute Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord This concert replaces the advertised programme of Stravinsky and Berio by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Sunday 23rd December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 23:00 to 00:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Schubert's emotionally harrowing winter journey is performed by Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton. Schubert wrote his epic winter journey when, as one of his friends observed, 'Life had lost its rosiness and winter had come upon him.' In this final song cycle, Schubert searched out and set twenty four poems by the Romantic, Wilhelm Müller which tell of a lonely traveller who ventures out into the snow: "A stranger I arrived; a stranger I depart." As he passes his lover's house, the poet writes 'Goodnight' on her gate post and so begins this harrowing journey of twilight hues and bleak landscapes, of snow and ice. As Schubert said, these songs are: "Truly terrible, they have affected me more than any others." Winterreise is one of the greatest journeys in all music. Schubert Winterreise D. 911 Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano) The recording of this epic work marks the end of Ashley Riches's two years as a Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Wednesday 9th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Recorded in December at St. Luke's Church in Chelsea, the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin are joined by the Academy of Ancient Music in a performance of the first three parts of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Members of the BBC Singers perform step-out solos. Parts 4-6 are performed live on BBC Radio 3 on 11 January at 7:30 pm. Academy of Ancient Music BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin, conductor After the concert: Adopt a Composer Making Music's scheme this year has paired seven composers with seven amateur performing groups around the country. The composer gets to work with the group over the course of a year to create a piece of music that is given its premiere performance by the ensemble, and Radio 3 is broadcasting the results. Ben See's We Want and Fingerprintplurals performed by Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra in London.

Monday 21st January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Isle of Noises Marin Alsop and the LPO present five new pieces. Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London Presented by Ian Skelly Arne Gieshoff: Burr Erkki-Sven Tüür: Solastalgia for piccolo and orchestra Helen Grime: Percussion Concerto Louis Andriessen Agamemnon: Anders Hillborg: Sound Atlas Marin Alsop conductor Stewart McIlwham piccolo Colin Currie percussion London Philharmonic Orchestra When Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise, said that Britain was one of the best places in the world to make new music, tonight's concert was the kind of thing he had in mind. Arne Gieshoff is a young German composer who's found his voice in London. Helen Grime, one of the most powerful young British talents, provides a new showpiece for percussion phenomenon Colin Currie. Louis Andriessen's Agamemnon receives its European premiere, and the LPO's own Principal Piccolo introduces a new concerto from Estonia, before the whole Orchestra gives the world premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra by the cult Swedish composer Anders Hillborg.

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Recorded at Brangwyn Hall Swansea Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Beethoven. Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Mahler: Rückert Lieder 8.10 Interval - Nicola Heywood Thomas talks to Stephen Hough. Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10) Stephen Hough (piano) Catriona Morison (mezzo sporano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

The visionary solo piano opening to Beethoven's 4th concerto begins a work which not only marked a move away from his previous piano concerti, but also marks a change for the composer as the public premiere of the work was the last time that he would perform with an orchestra due to the decline in his hearing. Almost a century later, Mahler chose to set music to the romantic poetry of Friederich Ruckert, a favourite poet of his, in which he brings the evocative texts to life. Although they were originally written as five individual songs for voice and piano, Mahler quickly orchestrated four of these songs and, along with the posthumous orchestration of the 5th by Max Puttmann, they are now often presented as a cycle as they will be tonight. The concert concludes with the Adagio from Mahler's unfinished 10th symphony, which was the only section which he had ostensibly completed and orchestrated. The tragedy in the music bears direct relation to the turmoil of Mahler's life at the time of composition and the poignant music is made even more touching with the knowledge that these were to be some of the last notes that Mahler would write.

Sunday 27th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 23:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Kate Molleson presents the best concerts from across Europe. Tonight, Mahler: Resurrection Symphony from the 2018 Beethoven Festival in Warsaw. Mahler - Symphony No 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" Martina Janková, soprano Bernada Fink, mezzo-soprano NFM Chorus Polish National Youth Chorus Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny, choir conductor, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice Leonard Slatkin, conductor.

Wednesday 30th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Sir Roger Norrington brings a lifetime's expertise in period performance as he conducts the London Philharmonic in two great classics of the English Baroque. One July evening in 1717, on the other side of the Thames from where tonight's concert is taking place, George I set off down the river to Chelsea. The royal party was closely followed not only by any and every Londoner with a boat, but also by a barge full of musicians playing a work specially commissioned for the occasion by the king's favourite composer. Handel's Water Music, including festive horns, trumpet and drums, so delighted George that he insisted it be repeated at least three times, including on the return trip to Whitehall Place. 30 years earlier, a Chelsea girls' school was the unlikely venue for the premiere of one of the greatest of all English musical stage works, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Based on Virgil's Aeneid, love and abandonment are its eternal themes and with an outstanding cast, this promises to be a very special performance. Presented live from the Royal Festival Hall by Martin Handley. Handel: Water Music Suite No.1 in F; Water Music Suite No.2 in D Interval Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Marie-Claude Chappuis......Dido (soprano) Lucy Crowe......Belinda (soprano) Benjamin Appl.....Aeneas (tenor) Anna Dennis......2nd Woman (soprano) Edward Grint......Sorceress, Spirit (bass-baritone) Ciara Hendrick......1st Witch (mezzo-soprano) Anna Harvey......2nd Witch (mezzo-soprano) The Schütz Choir of London London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

Thursday 31st January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

A concert recorded last night at Wigmore Hall in London, given by The Cardinall's Musick. Works connected to individual saints inform this programme by a vocal ensemble whose performances of the Renaissance repertoire have won consistent acclaim. Initially focusing on St Mary Magdalene, the concert closes with the Magnificat, the Virgin Mary's hymn of thanksgiving. Introduced by Ian Skelly Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-1557) - Congratulamini mihi Francisco Guerrero - Missa Congratulamini mihi Gregorian Chant - Propers for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene INTERVAL Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) - Cecilia Virgo Philippe Verdelot (c.1480-1530) - Salve Barbara Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) - In tua patientia Francisco Guerrero - Surge propera Luca Marenzio - Cantantibus organis Daniel Torquet - Cantantibus organis William Byrd (c.1540-1623) - Salve regina Michael Praetorius (c.1571-1621) - Regina caeli jubila Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) - Magnificat primi toni The Cardinall's Musick.