Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
We begin the programme with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall. United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick present spellbinding polyphony created in Mary, the Mother of God's, honour by some of the greatest Iberian composers of the age.
Elsewhere we have music from the Barber Lunchtime Concert Series, held in Birmingham. Countertenor Hugh Cutting and lute player Daniel Murphy together in a programme entitled 'Heartstrings', exploring love songs from composers such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and John Dowland.
Mark also has a spotlight on Robert and Clara Schumann throughout the week. Today, the centrepiece is Robert Schumann's vibrant and youthful Symphony No. 1 in B flat performed by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
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Live from Wigmore Hall, introduced by Hannah French.
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Alma Redemptoris mater a8
Ave maris stella
Ave Maria
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Missa Ego flos campi: Kyrie; Gloria
Francisco Guerrero
Ave Maria a4
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Missa Ego flos campi: Credo
Francisco de Peñalosa
Adoro te Domine Jesu Christe
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Missa Ego flos campi: Sanctus; Agnus Dei
Plainchant
Ite missa est
Francisco Guerrero
Virgo prudentissima
Ave virgo sanctissima
Sebastián de Vivanco
Magnificat octavi toni
The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
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Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 in B flat, Op. 38 ('Spring')
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
Joseph Haydn
Keyboard Trio No. 27 in A flat, Hob. XV:14
Esther Hoppe (violin)
Christian Poltéra (cello)
Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
Thomas Campion
I care not for these ladies
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Vincent d’Indy
Madrigal (2.00)
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Se l’aura spira
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Robert Johnson
Have you seen the bright lily grow?
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs?
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Trad. Irish
Siúil a Rún
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Robert Schumann
Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
Munich Chamber Orchestra
Jörg Widmann (conductor)
Maurice Ravel
Sonatine
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
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