大象传媒

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Live from the Barbican Centre, London

A concert of masterpieces performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis and featuring as soloist, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida.

Haydn composer his Symphony No.98 on his first trip to London, where it was given its premiere (at the Hanover Square Rooms) in 1792. It opens the concert tonight.

Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto is a ground-breaking work, a milestone in Beethoven's composing life, coming early in his so-called middle-period. It's played by the brilliant pianist Mitsuko Uchida.

Sir Colin Davis has been very much associated with Scandinavian music, especially Sibelius. The Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Second Symphony is subtitled 'The Four Temperaments' and the individual movements are labelled Choleric; Phlegmatic, Melancholic and Sanguine. The inspiration for the symphony, composed at the turn of the last century, was a four-part picture of the four temperaments in a village put in Zealand. The composer conducted the first performance of the symphony in December 1902.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
The London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis, conductor

Nielsen: Symphony no.2 op.16 "The Four Temperaments".