大象传媒

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Series of performances by 大象传媒 orchestras featuring music by composers who left their native countries.

Although Stravinsky spent the period from 1914-1918 in Switzerland, unable to return to his native Russia because of his involvement in both the First World War and the Russian Revolution, it was a creative period for him, which produced works like Pulcinella and The Soldier's Tale.

Both Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill fled Nazi Germany, as the regime not only banned performances of their music, but moved against them personally. Hindemith had naively invited Hitler himself to come and sit in on one of his music tutorials to prove to him he was no threat, but Weill was under no illusions and he fled Germany in March 1933 with just a few of his personal belongings.

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Jennifer Pike (violin)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.15pm
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Kenneth Cranham (narrator)
Members of 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stephan Solyom (conductor)

3.10pm
Weill: Symphony No 2
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Stringer (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Op 19
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

4.25pm
Hindemith: Symphony (Mathis der Maler)
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley (conductor).

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