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大象传媒 Philharmonic - Dvorak, Ades, Britten, Brahms

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, 大象传媒 Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena. Dvorak: Carnival Overture. Ades: America - A Prophecy. Britten: Violin Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 3.

The 大象传媒 Philharmonic, with conductor Juanjo Mena in music by Thomas 础诲猫蝉, Dvorak, Brahms and Britten. They are joined by violinist James Ehnes and mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Ian Skelly

Dvorak: Overture, Carnival
Thomas 础诲猫蝉: America - a prophecy
Britten: Violin Concerto

8.30 Interval
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses the way collaboration works with poet Sean O'Brien and composer Agust铆n Fern谩ndez, looking at their new song-cycle, Notes from Underground, which was inspired by WH Auden's love of the lead-mining landscape of the North Pennines.
Recorded in front of a Free Thinking Festival audience at Sage Gateshead last month.

8.50
Brahms: Symphony No 3

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
James Ehnes (violin)
大象传媒 Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena

Dvorak gave the premiere of his arresting Carnival Overture in his farewell concert in Prague in the days before he moved to America. Britten's Violin Concerto, completed and and premiered in New York during the Second World War follows Thomas 础诲猫蝉's apocalyptic 'America - a prophecy', commissoned by the New York Philharmonic for pieces to mark the millennium. To end the concert we return to the peace of Bohemia with Brahms's Third Symphony.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 4 Dec 2015 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • 础诲猫蝉

    America - a prophecy

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Suite for piano (Op.45), [complete]

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

Credit

Performer 大象传媒 Philharmonic

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Dec 2015 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3