13/08/2008
Presented by Ian Skelly. 大象传媒 Proms 2008: The Royal Philharmonic in works by Chen Yi, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams. Chamber Music: Bach: Preludes and Fugues. Schoenberg: Pieces.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
大象传媒 Proms 2008
Leonard Slatkin conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a Prom featuring three diverse composers. Chen Yi's Olympic Fire was commissioned to celebrate the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and to look forward to the London Olympics in 2012.
Winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn Competition Olga Kern plays one of the best-loved works by fellow-Russian Sergei Rachmaninov.
The Prom finishes with two major pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams: a work for strings commissioned for the New York World's Fair just before the Second World War and a searing symphony apparently inspired by the horrors that conflict brought. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Olga Kern (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Chen Yi: Olympic Fire (大象传媒 commission; world premiere)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor
Chamber Music
Bach: Preludes and Fugues
Schoenberg: Pieces
Alfredo Pearl (piano)
Plus highlights from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall at the 2006 Wyastone Leys Festival.
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- Wed 13 Aug 2008 14:00大象传媒 Radio 3