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Viva Espana!

Jun Markl conducts the 大象传媒 NOW in Ravel's Bolero with a fiesta of Spanish and Spanish-influenced music, including Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with pianist Angela Hewitt.

Recorded in St. David's Hall, Cardiff

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

8.20 Interval music

Falla: Suite No 1 (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Debussy: Iberia (Images)
Ravel: Bolero

Angela Hewitt (piano)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Jun M盲rkl (conductor)

Jun M盲rkl transports the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales to early 20th Century impressionist Spain, through the music of Manuel de Falla and his French counterparts, Ravel and Debussy. Starting with a back-to-back performance from one of the world's leading pianists, Angela Hewitt, we hear Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, the sultry nightscape of a flowering garden, and Ravel's ominously dark and jazz tinged piano concerto for the left hand, which was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein. In the second half, the lighter, brighter side of Spain is at the fore. The first suite of music from Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat draws the listener in with its Andalusian folk melodies, and this is followed by Iberia, the centrepiece to Debussy's orchestral triptych Images, which completely encapsulates Spain, even though Debussy had spent less than a day in the country prior to writing the piece. Ravel's much-adored Bolero finishes the concert, a piece which was originally a ballet but which the music has outstripped its original purpose. The piece is in essence a long crescendo without any development, and questions the expected forms of classical music, and is notably included in Our Classical Century.

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Mon 11 Feb 2019 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gradens of Spain

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in D major (for Left Hand)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite d'apres des themes, fragment et morceuax de Giambatista Pergolesi (from Pulcinella)

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Performer: Anthony Marwood.
    • Stravinsky: Complete Music for Violin and Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-6.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Serenade espagnole, Op 150

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music Volume 3.
    • Hyperion.
    • 20.

  • Manuel de Falla

    The Three Cornered Hat Suite No.1

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images: No.2 Iberia

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 33 No 6

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcast

  • Mon 11 Feb 2019 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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