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 Âé¶¹Éç 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 Janeba Kannah-Mason performing Bach and Chopin. Also in today's programme, the next in the series of Wednesday afternoon concerts from the Âé¶¹Éç 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')(extract)
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (conductor)
Belfast International Chamber Music Festival:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV. 829
Janeba Kannah-Mason (piano)
13:30’00
THE Âé¶¹Éç PHILHARMONIC WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Dorothy Howell
Lamia
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Leonore No. 3
Âé¶¹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoel Gamzou (conductor)
Belfast International Chamber Music Festival:
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No 3 in A Flat Major Op. 47/3
Janeba Kannah-Mason (piano)
On radio
Broadcast
- Wed 4 Mar 2026 13:00Âé¶¹Éç Radio 3