Performance on 3 - RLPO - Music Inspired by Spring

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert inspired by spring. The programme features Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, Stravinsky's The Firebird and Rachmaninov's Spring Cantata, a work about the healing qualities of spring, and for which the orchestra are joined by the Philharmonic Choir and Eduard Tsanga, a soloist of the Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Eduard Tsanga (bass) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra Vasily Petrenko (conductor) Elgar: Cockaigne Overture Rachmaninov: Spring Cantata Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet) Followed by Easter music from around the world. Kenneth Leighton: Drop, drop, slow tears. The Finzi Singers Paul Spicer, director Kenneth Leighton: Mass (op 44) Stephen Cleobury, conductor; Richard Pearce, organist Olivia Robinson (soprano), Sian Menna (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Jeffes (tenor) Edward Price (bass) Kenneth Leighton: God’s Grandeur BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury, conductor Francesco Provenzale: Dialogo in cinque voci con violini per la Passione. Cappella della Pieta de’Turchini Antonio Floria, director