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Visiting the UK: LUDWIG Orchestra

Recorded at the 2019 Aldeburgh Festival, Barbara Hannigan is both conductor and soprano soloist with the LUDWIG Orchestra in a programme including Stravinsky, Haydn and Gershwin.

Continuing the series of outstanding performances from visiting orchestras and ensembles drawn from the Radio 3 archive, Andrew McGregor introduces this concert recorded at Snape Maltings as part of 2019 Aldeburgh Festival. The versatile Barbara Hannigan took the roles of both conductor and soprano with the Dutch LUDWIG Orchestra in a programme spanning three centuries with music from Haydn to Gershwin, which was presented on the night by Martin Handley.

Stravinsky: Pulcinella (complete ballet)

8.15 pm
Martin Handley in conversation with Barbara Hannigan

8.30 pm
Haydn: Symphony No.49 ‘La Passione’
Gershwin: Suite from Girl Crazy

Kate Howden (mezzo-soprano)
James Way (tenor)
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel (bass)

LUDWIG Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella - Ballet

    Singer: Kate Howden. Singer: James Way. Singer: Antoin Herrera-López Kessel. Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 49 in F minor H.1.49 (La Passione)

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl crazy

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Orchestra: Barbara Hannigan.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Op 21 & Incidental Music, Op 61 (excerpts)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Singer: Deborah York. Singer: Stella Doufexis. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: Damen des Chors des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
    • Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 102.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Jul 2021 19:30