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Steven Osborne's Rachmaninov

大象传媒 SSO under Ilan Volkov perform Edmund Finnis's The Air, Turning, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, with Steven Osborne, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

Ilan Volkov and the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform a work by Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, February 2017.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2

8.20 Interval

8.40
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

Steven Osborne (piano)
Ilan Volkov (Conductor)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Another chance to hear a concert originally broadcast live in February 2017. From their home at the City Halls in Glasgow the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, explored two familiar Russian works of ostentatious virtuosity, and a work by composer Edmund Finnis. His piece The Air, Turning received its world premiere performance at the concert.
Then Rachmaninov's oft-quoted Second Piano Concerto. One of the most commonly heard pieces on the concert platform, despite its ferocious technical difficulties: tackled by Steven Osborne.
And the evening concluded with Rimsky-Korsakov's opulent Sheherazade, a work which in 1888 pushed the very limits of creative orchestration. A tuneful masterclass in orchestral sound-painting and tale-telling, taking as it does inspiration from stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

Photo: Steven Osborne (credit, Ben Ealovega)

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 28 Jan 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Edmund Finnis

      The Air, Turning

      Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Ilan Volkov.

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18

      Performer: Steven Osborne. Ensemble: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Etude Tableau

      Performer: Steve Osborne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Interval

    • Edmund Finnis

      Brother

      Performer: Alex Shiozaki. Performer: Derek Mosloff.

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Octave from To the Poet Op.45

      Singer: Olga Borodina. Performer: Larissa Gergieva.
      • Songs of Desire.
      • Philips.
      • 442780.

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      In the dark grove, the nightingale is silent from 4 Songs Op.4

      Singer: Olga Borodina. Performer: Larissa Gergieva.
      • Songs of Desire.
      • Philips.
      • 442780.

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      The Lark sings louder from In Spring Op.43

      Singer: Olga Borodina. Performer: Larissa Gergieva.
      • Songs of Desire.
      • Philips.
      • 442780.

  • Part 2

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Scheherazade Op. 35

      Ensemble: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • Post-concert

    • Benjamin Britten

      Cantata academica Op.62

      Singer: Jennifer Vyvyan. Singer: Helen Watts. Singer: Peter Pears. Singer: Owen Brannigan. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Malcolm.
      • The Little Sweep / Cantata Academica.
      • Heritage.
      • HTGCD236.

Credit

Performer 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Broadcasts

  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Thu 28 Jan 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3