Finchley Chamber Orchestra on Radio 3

Finchley Chamber Orchestra became a part of Radio 3’s ongoing ‘Listen Up!’ project on 19th October 2006, when Petroc Trelawney interviewed our conductor David Lardi by telephone from Trinity Church in the middle of one of our regular rehearsals, and then broadcast the entire last movement from our performance in May 2006 of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. If you have a broadband connection, the top link below will bring you this brief interview as an MP3 file; you can open it directly in an application such as Windows Media Player or save it on your computer to play later. The other links will bring you our complete performance of this symphony, movement by movement, as well as a complete symphony by Mozart from the same concert.

Petroc Trelawney and David Lardi on Radio 3, 19th October 2006
   (2 min 56 sec / File size 2.0 MB in 96kb/s stereo MP3 format)
Biographies of three of the soloists mentioned by David can be found here:
                   Natalie Clein : Valeriy Sokolov : Samantha Ward
The interview was followed, on air, by the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92
1st movement: Poco sostenuto - Vivace   (13 min 39 sec / File size 12.8 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
2nd movement: Allegretto   (8 min 23 sec / File size 7.8 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
3rd movement: Presto - Assai meno presto   (9 min 25 sec / File size 8.8 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
4th movement: Allegro con brio   (10 min 23 sec / File size 9.7 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)


Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D, K 385 (Haffner)
1st movement: Allegro con spirito   (8 min 28 sec / File size 7.9 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
2nd movement: Andante   (6 min 55 sec / File size 6.5 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
3rd movement: Minuetto   (3 min 23 sec / File size 3.2 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)
4th movement: Presto   (4 min 43 sec / File size 4.4 MB in 128kb/s stereo MP3 format)


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All these recordings: Copyright 2006 Finchley Chamber Orchestra, David Lardi