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A New Dawn – Oramo conducts Brahms

Sakari Oramo conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Betsy Jolas Letters from Bachville, Brahms's Second Symphony and, with soloist Ben Goldscheider, Ruth Gipps's Horn Concerto.

Recorded at the Barbican on Saturday 2nd October 2021
Presented by Ian Skelly

Betsy Jolas: Letters from Bachville(16 mins)
Ruth Gipps: Horn Concerto (18 mins)

20.05
Interval

JS Bach: Cantata 48: Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen, BWV 48
Damien Guillon (countertenor) Thomas Hobbs(tenor)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

20.25
Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D major (41 mins)

Ben Goldscheider (horn)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo leads a season opening like no other. At its heart is Johannes Brahms’s symphony of light and shadows – music that tells of the magnificence of creation but with a ribbon of mourning tied around its sleeve; Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 resembles the most beautiful of sunsets followed by the most invigorating of new dawns.

In 1968, the composer Ruth Gipps wrote a concerto for a newly qualified young horn player embarking on a career. That horn player happened to be her son. His mother’s gift is an ethereal, poetic and virtuosic piece, played here, in the centenary of the composer’s birth, by former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Young Musician finalist Ben Goldscheider. To open, Oramo conducts the UK premiere of Betsy Jolas’s ‘meticulously charming’ (The Boston Globe) collage in homage to Bach’s hometown, Leipzig.

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 20 Oct 2021 19:30
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Betsy Jolas

    Letters from Bachville

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto Op.58

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun komm Der Heiden Heiland

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Elizabeth Burley.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No.48 Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen, BWV 48

    Singer: Damien Guillon. Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Ghent Orchestra. Choir: Collegium Vocale Ghent Chorus. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.2 in D Op.73

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Gerta Raidma

    „je suis"

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Kaspars Putniņš.

  • Christoph Renhart

    Catalogue des Arts et Métiers

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zeitfluss. Director: Edo Micic.

  • Outi Tarkiainen

    Soai Vácciiga Buohtalaga

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Singer: Tuuli Lindeberg.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12, 'Revolutionary'

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Oct 2021 19:30
    ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3