World Environment Day Concert
Andrew McGregor hosts an evening of music for International World Environment Day, including the premiere of Tan Dun's Prayer and Blessing, his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Beethoven Pastoral Day Concert 2020, featuring Tan Dun's Prayer and Blessing
Andrew McGregor introduces an evening of music to mark the United Nations' International World Environment Day. The concert opens with Beethoven's homage to the sanctity of nature and continues with Tan Dun's response to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and other natural disasters which, as he says: "All share in the same memory, one where the human spirit stays strong." The concert ends with the radio broadcast premiere of Tan Dun's Prayer and Blessing, a work directly inspired by the coronavirus pandemic. And then, soon after 9pm, we return to a world before corona for Richard Strauss's epic Alpine Symphony, written for an orchestra of 130 musicians and performed in 2016 by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. In a mountain journey between dawn and dusk, we hear the sounds of rushing streams and thunderstorms along with Strauss's heartfelt hymns of praise to nature.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, op. 68 ('Pastoral')
Michael Gottard Fischer (1773-1829) (arranger)
Members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra
Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature (chamber version)
Martin Grubinger, Richard Putz and Slavik Stakhov (percussion)
Ferhan 脰nder and Ferzan 脰nder (piano)
Tan Dun: Prayer and Blessing - Radio Premiere
Martin Grubinger, Richard Putz and Slavik Stakhov (percussion)
with members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra
at 9.00pm
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
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Pastoral Symphony arr.Michael Gotthard Fischer for string sextet
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Tan Dun
The Tears of Nature
Performer: Martin Grubinger. Performer: Richard Putz. Performer: Slavik Stakhov. Performer: Ferhan 脰nder. -
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Tan Dun
Prayer and Blessing-
Performer: Martin Grubinger. Performer: Richard Putz. Performer: Slavik Stakhov. Performer: members of WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne. -
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Edvard Grieg
Morning (Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op.46)
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Olivier Messiaen
Le Merle noir for flute and piano
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.- WARNER.
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Carnival of the Animals (Finale)
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Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
TAN DUN
MARTIN GRUBINGER
FERHAN AND FERZAN ONDER
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- Fri 5 Jun 2020 19:00大象传媒 Radio 3