Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in an all-American programme
Santtu-Matias Rouvali leads the Philharmonia in an all-American programme including classics by Copland and Stravinsky and less familiar music by Florence Price and Steve Reich.
Although it's not until next season that Santtu-Matias Rouvali takes over from fellow Finn and long-time Philharmonia Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, he has already begun to make his mark as an original programmer - and performer - with his new orchestra.
Tonight's all-American programme is book-ended by two classic scores. In Appalachian Spring, Copland defined the sound of an idealised mid-century America, with broad, singable tunes, one famously taken from directly a Shaker source; Stravinsky's lively and engaging Dumbarton Oaks (commissioned by a wealthy Washington couple as an expensive wedding anniversary present to themselves) takes JS Bach's Brandenburg Concertos as its model. Less well known is African American composer Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes, which conjures up the Deep South of her childhood. And Rouvali steps off the podium to join four members of the Philharmonia's percussion section for Steve Reich's 1973 Music for Pieces of Wood, a compelling and mesmerising tour de force of shifting rhythms and sophisticated simplicity.
Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Ian Skelly as part of Southbank Centre鈥檚 Inside Out season.
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
Followed by:
Thomas Ad猫s
Concerto for violin and orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor)
Album: DG 4838228
18鈥�23
Followed by music chosen by young people involved in the outreach programmes and artist development schemes run by Southbank鈥檚 Resident and Associate orchestras and Creative Learning Partners.
Photo - Camilla Greenwell
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
![]()
Aaron Copland
Appalachian spring
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. -
![]()
Florence Price
Dances in the canebrakes
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. -
![]()
William Grant Still
Summerland (3 Visions)
Performer: Bruce Levingston.- Citizen.
- Sono Luminus.
- 201.
-
![]()
Steve Reich
Music for pieces of wood
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. -
![]()
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. -
![]()
脡dith Piaf
La Vie en Rose
Composer: Louiguy. Music Arranger: Mack David. Performer: Louis Armstrong. -
![]()
Mariah Carey
Always Be My Baby
Music Arranger: Brasstracks. Ensemble: Brasstracks. -
![]()
Gustav Holst
Mercury, the winged messenger (The Planets suite Op 32)
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult. -
![]()
Olivier Messiaen
Turangalila-symphonie (No 6 & No 10)
Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Performer: Joanna MacGregor. -
![]()
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 3 in C major Op 52 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy. -
![]()
Thomas Ad猫s
Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- DG.
-
![]()
B茅la Bart贸k
Out of Doors
Performer: Alexander Gadjiev. -
![]()
Rob Luft
Sad Stars
Performer: Rob Luft. Performer: Corrie Dick. Singer: Tom McCredie.
Broadcast
- Mon 26 Oct 2020 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3