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Chopin and his Europe

Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Paderewski and Sibelius.

Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Sibelius and Paderewski, a late-Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist who also served as Poland's prime minister.

2.00pm
Elgar: Polonia - symphonic prelude
Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor
Elgar: Piano Concerto (slow movement)
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
Garrick Ohlssohn, piano (Paderewski)
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano (Elgar)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gzregorz Nowak, conductor

3.55pm
Chopin Ballade no.4 in F minor
Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano

4.10pm
Paderewski: Overture
Sibelius: Symphony no.2
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Polonia - symphonic prelude Op.76

    Performer: Garrick Ohlssohn. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gzregorz Nowak.
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Concerto in A minor Op.17 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.15 for piano - no.2 in F sharp major

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
  • Edward Elgar

    Concerto Op.90 for piano and orchestra, compl. Robert Walker [from Elgar's sketches]

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan i Lyudmila - opera in 5 acts i Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in C sharp minor Op.45 for piano & Ballade no. 4 in F minor Op.52 for piano

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Overture in E flat major

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.43

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Performer: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 (Grande valse brillante) for piano

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestrator: Benjamin Britten. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt - suite no. 1 Op.46 i Aase's death

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Menuet c茅l猫bre (Humoresques de concert, Op 14)

    Performer: Anton铆n Kub谩lek.
    • My gift to you - piano encores: Antonin Kubalek.
    • Dorian.
  • Arnold Bax

    November Woods

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Bax Tone Poems.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Mar 2019 14:00