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Striggio's 40-part Mass from Montpellier

Al Ryan with exclusive recordings of music by Striggio and others plus another in the Wednesday series of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to take us into spring.

Al Ryan with exclusive concert recordings including part of a distinctive and spectacular mass setting for 40 voices by the 16th Century Italian composer Alessandro Striggio recorded at last year's Montpellier Festival with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel. Plus more chamber music highlights from the recent Belfast International Chamber Music Festival including pianist Jeneba Kannah-Mason performing Bach and Chopin. Also in today's programme, the next in the series of Wednesday afternoon concerts from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra that will take us into spring. Today the orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Dorothy Howell and Richard Strauss's elegiac Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings.

Alessandro Striggio
Mass for 40 solo voices ('Ecco si beato giorno') (excerpt)
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (conductor)

Belfast International Chamber Music Festival:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV. 829
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

13:30
THE BBC PHILHARMONIC WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Dorothy Howell
Lamia
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Leonore No. 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoel Gamzou (conductor)

Belfast International Chamber Music Festival:
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op. 47
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

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1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Mar 202613:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Kyrie, from 'Mass for 40 solo voices ('Ecco si beato giorno')'

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Gloria, from 'Mass for 40 solo voices ('Ecco si beato giorno')

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV. 829

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.

  • Peter Warlock

    Mattachins (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 12.

  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Gamzou.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Lamia

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Gamzou.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No. 3

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Gamzou.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Credo, from 'Mass for 40 solo voices ('Ecco si beato giorno')

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    I gioielli della Madonna Suite: I. Festa popolare

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No. 3 in Ab major, Op. 47 No. 3

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Mar 202613:00
    BBC Radio 3