Korngold, Weill, Adams
Penny Gore presents music performed by the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Korngold: Symphony in F sharp, Op 40. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins. John Adams: Gnarly Buttons.
Penny Gore continues this week of recent performances by the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
Erich Korngold and Kurt Weill fled from Nazi Germany within a year of each other in the early 1930s. Eventually, both re-established themselves in the USA - on opposite coasts - Korngold in Hollywood writing for the cinema, Weill in New York writing for Broadway.
Korngold's only symphony was written using fragments of the film score to The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, a Warner Brothers hit in 1939 starring Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins was completed before he made it to the USA, in Paris in 1933, but it is set in the USA. In it, a pair of twins - both called Anna - experience the Seven Deadly Sins as they travel through seven different cities in the USA over a period of seven years. In Weill and Berthold Brecht's hands the satire is what is a sin and what is not ... Storm Large sings the roles of both Annas.
In between, the vocal ensemble "Hudson Shad" - who sing the part of Anna's family in Weill's Seven Deadly Sins - present a collection of satirical songs from stage and cinema.
And as it is John Adams's birthday tomorrow, Penny introduces a performance of his "Gnarly Buttons" with Michael Collins (who gave the premiere) directing the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra - three movements that include a hoedown with prominent parts for banjo and a cow.
2pm
Korngold: Symphony in F sharp, Op 40
2.55pm
Hudson Shad present a collection of songs from stage and screen
3.15pm
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins (in English)
Storm Large (soprano)
Hudson Shad (vocal quartet)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan (conductor)
3.55pm
John Adams: Gnarly Buttons
Michael Collins (clarinet/director)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F# Op.40
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan. -
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Walter Jurmann
Veronika, der Lenz ist da
Lyricist: Fritz Rotter. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Dimitri Tiomkin
'Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin' from the film High Noon (1952)
Lyricist: Ned Washington. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Kurt Weill
'Speak Low' from One Touch of Venus (1943)
Lyricist: Ogden Nash. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Kurt Weill
Klopslied ('Meatball Song')
Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Walter Jurmann
'All God's Children Got Rhythm' from the film A Day at the Races (1937)
Composer: Bronis艂aw Kaper. Lyricist: Gus Kahn. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Dimitri Tiomkin
Rawhide ('Rollin') theme song from the TV show Rawhide
Lyricist: Ned Washington. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Marion Harris
'I'll be Seeing you' performed as 'I'll 大象传媒-ing you'
Composer: Reg Montgomery. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan. Performer: Storm Large. Ensemble: Hudson Shad. -
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John Adams
Gnarly Buttons
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Michael Collins. -
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Gerald Finzi
Prelude (Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, Op 23)
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Performer | 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra |
Broadcast
- Tue 14 Feb 2017 14:00大象传媒 Radio 3