Afternoon on 3 - Chopin and His Influences - Episode 2

Today's Afternoon Performance continues the week's focus on Chopin, with a concert given as part of last year's Chopin and his Europe Festival. Howard Shelley directs the Sinfonia Varsovia and is the pianist in a piano concerto by Dobrzynski, one of Chopin's classmates at the Warsaw Conservatory. Then Jan Lisiecki joins the orchestra as soloist in music by Chopin himself; his Piano Concerto no.1. Plus a chance to hear incidental music by a composer who was very much influenced by Chopin, Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien. Presented by Jonathan Swain. 2pm Dobrzynski: Piano Concerto in A flat major Op. 2 Howard Shelley (piano) Sinfonia Varsovia 2.35pm Mendelssohn: Symphony no.4 in A major 'Italian' Sinfonia Varsovia Howard Shelley (conductor) 3.05pm Chopin: Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Jan Lisiecki (piano) Sinfonia Varsovia Howard Shelley (conductor) 3.50pm Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien Isabelle Huppert (narrator) Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano) Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano) Christine Knorren (mezzo-soprano) Radio France Chorus Orchestre National de France Daniele Gatti (conductor).