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Visiting the UK: New York Philharmonic

Recorded at the Barbican in 2012, the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert perform Berlioz with mezzo Joyce DiDonato. Plus Stravinsky, Ravel and Thomas Ad猫s,

The New York Philharmonic has long been a committed advocate of new music and when they came to the Barbican in 2012 with their then Music Director Alan Gilbert, they chose to open their concert with the UK premiere of Thomas Ad猫s's Polaris. The rest of the programme continued with favourite mezzo Joyce DiDonato in Berlioz's ravishing song cycle Les nuits d'茅t茅 and a work premiered by a previous New York Phil generation, Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, his 1946 masterpiece largely based on cast-offs from abandoned projects. The concert ended with another orchestral tour de force, music from Ravel's sumptuously scored ballet Daphnis et Chlo茅. Well, not quite ended because the orchestra drove the sell-out audience to a frenzy with its two encores.

Martin Handley introduces this concert, which was originally presented by Louise Fryer.

Thomas Ad猫s: Polaris (UK premiere)
Berlioz: Les nuits d'茅t茅

8.30 pm
Interval music (from CD)
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Michel Arrignon (clarinet)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

8.40 pm
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo茅 (Suite No 2)

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Photo by Simon Pauly

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Tue 27 Jul 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Polaris

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Les nuits d'茅t茅

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ebony Concerto

    Performer: Michel Arrignon. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Berg: Chamber Concerto.
    • Deutsche Grammophone.
    • 8.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in Three Movements

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅 (Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    贰蝉辫补帽补

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.

  • Lew Pollack

    That's a plenty (arr for brass quintet)

    Music Arranger: Steve Cooper. Ensemble: Brass players from NY Phil.

  • Thomas Selle

    Veni Sancte Spiritus

    Performer: Bart Jacobs. Conductor: Lionel Meunier. Ensemble: Vox Luminis.
    • Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation.
    • Ricercar.
    • 014.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 27 Jul 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3