BBC Radio 3 – Classical Live Music, Cotswolds Concerts: Finzi’s Polyphonic Singing and the Kaleidoscopic Camera Brahms Collective Piece

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other outstanding performing groups from Europe and around the world.

This week we attend Tetbury Music Festival for the last time this year with the choral group Polyphony performing the music of Finzi and the chamber group Kaleidoscope playing Brahms. More British Baroque music will be performed by French ensemble Le Consort at this summer’s Rheingau Music Festival, and at 3pm our orchestra in the spotlight this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, will be joined by singers Nicky Spence and Ashley Riches to perform part of Messiaen’s extraordinary opera. Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Modest Mussorgsky ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
Night on the Bare Mountain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (composer)

Gustav Mahler
Des Antonius von Fischpredigt of Padua (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, no. 6)
James Newby (baritone)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

1400
Gerald Finzi
7 Poems by Robert Bridges
Polyphony
Stephen Leighton (conductor)

Mrs Philharmonica
Sonata No. 5 in C minor (2nd and 3rd movements)
Le Consort

1500
Olivier Messiaen
St. Francis of Assisi – Act 2, Table 6 “St. Francis Preaching to the Birds”
Nicky Spence (Brother Masseo, tenor)
Ashley Riches (St. Francis, bass-baritone)

Charles Villiers Stanford
blue bird
Polyphony
Stephen Leighton (conductor)

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