麻豆社

Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon on 3 featuring recent tour concerts and studio recordings by the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra, plus on Friday the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales on tour in China just this week.

Recurring features across the week include music by Dvorak's son-in-law Josef Suk; and new 麻豆社 SO recordings with composer-conductor Oliver Knussen, celebrating his 60th birthday on 12 June this year by conducting one of his own works (today) plus French and Russian music.

To launch the week today, the 麻豆社 SO and their outgoing Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek are joined on tour at the German spa town of Bad Kissingen by soprano Kate Royal and violinist Leonidas Kavakos. Their concert, given a fortnight ago, features music from Mozart via Brahms and Dvorak to Richard Strauss and Franz Lehar. Plus Oliver Knussen conducts his own music and a symphony by the Russian Nikolai Miaskovsky; and Jiri Belohlavek conducts Suk's symphonic poem Prague - looking forward to his concerts with the 麻豆社 SO at the 2012 Prague Spring Festival, which you can hear tomorrow.

Richard Strauss: Don Juan
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 2.20pm
Richard Strauss: Das Rosenband
Kate Royal (soprano),
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Dvorak: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Kate Royal (soprano),
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Mozart: Dove sono (Le nozze de Figaro - Act 3)
Kate Royal (soprano),
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Bellohlavek (conductor).

Lehar: Vilja (Die Lustige Witwe)
Kate Royal (soprano),
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 3.00pm
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Leonidas Kavakos (violin),
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 3.30pm
Suk: Prague
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 4.05pm
Miaskovsky: Symphony no. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 36
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra,
Oliver Knussen (conductor).