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Friday - Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

The Netherlands Philharmonic play music by American composer Derrick Spiva Jr. Marin Alsop conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Brahms's Second Symphony.

Penny Gore rounds off another week of the best recordings of classical music from around Europe and the 大象传媒's orchestras.

Today, the Netherlands Philharmonic are joined by conductors Martyn Brabbins and Joshua Weilerstein to play music by Elgar and Thomas Ades, and the American composer Derrick Spiva Jr's Prisms, Cycles, Leaps, which blends music from the Balkans and Ghana, and North Indian Hindustani classical music. Marin Alsop conducts Brahms's Second Symphony in Frankfurt, Christian Ihle Hadland plays Szymanowski in Denmark, and there's more from Philippe Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Including:

Grieg: Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Anthony Weedon (conductor)

Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, op. 60
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Royal Danish Orchestra
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Music by Moulini茅, Caix d'Hervelois and Lambert
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar (conductor, theorbo)

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Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Thomas Ades: Dawn Chacony, for orchestra at any distance
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, op. 47, for string quartet and string orchestra
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Derrick Spiva Jr: Prisms, Cycles, Leaps
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

2 hours, 32 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Dec 2021 14:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Funeral march for Richard Nordraak

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weedon.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Symphony No. 4, op. 60

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland. Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Andante [Adagio], 2nd movement from 'Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528'

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Music Arranger: August Stradal. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Dawn Chacony, for orchestra at any distance

    Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro, op. 47

    Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Derrick Spiva Jr.

    Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

    Performer: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Sound Sleep for female voices and (optional) orchestra

    Singer: Kitty Whately. Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Dec 2021 14:00