大象传媒

Verity Sharp embarks upon a week of programmes on a voyage with the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales with a nautical overture, mixing "Rule Britannia" with a jaunty horpipe. Britten landed in America at the outbreak of the Second World War and captured the spirit of the wide open plains and of jazz in his overture. The 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales landed in America in 2007 with Thierry Fischer, playing Honegger's impression of a steam locomotive that would have been commonplace on the American railroads in the early twentieth century. Late last year the orchestra visited South America, playing Ginastera's harp concerto in Buenos Aires in the presence of the composer's daughter. American conductor Eric Stern brings his broadway bravura to the orchestra in favourites by Gershwin and Bernstein, plus the seminal all-American Third Symphony by Roy Harris. Soloist Chloe Hanslip braves the challenges of the electric violin for John Adams's haunting impression of the towering mountains that crash into the Pacific Ocean in California.

2pm
Alexander Mackenzie: Britannia - a nautical overture op.52
大象传媒 National Orhcestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.10pm
Britten: An American Overture
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.20pm
Honegger: Pacific 231
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.25pm
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Catrin Finch (harp)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

2.50pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
William Wolfram (piano)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

3.10pm
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
Chloe Hanslip (electric violin)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

3.40pm
Roy Harris: Symphony no. 3
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

4pm
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor).