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Music Inextinguishable

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in Daniel Kidane, Prokofiev's dazzling Second Piano Concerto, with soloist Denis Kozhukhin, and Nielsen鈥檚 Fourth Symphony.

The 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste in Prokofiev's dazzling Piano Concerto No.2 with soloist Denis Kozhukhin, Daniel Kidane's Be Still and Nielsen鈥檚 Fourth Symphony.

Sergey Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2, a student piece written just before he graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory, already spectacularly demonstrates his ability to conjure fantastical moods and his astonishing piano technique. For the soloist, it is arguably the most technically demanding of his five piano concertos, whose original score was lost in the 1917-21 Civil War and had to be reconstructed by the composer in 1923.

In neutral Denmark, Carl Nielsen, looked on in horror as the First World War tore Europe apart. The composer鈥檚 Symphony No. 4 erupts in violence, forcing two sets of drums to tear into one another from either side of a fissile orchestra. Before all that, though, we enter an oasis of calm courtesy of composer Daniel Kidane, whose Be Still is a reflection on a common experience of spring 2020 in which time itself appeared to stand still.

Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London on 6th May
Presented by Ian Skelly

Daniel Kidane: Be Still
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.16

8.20 Interval [From CD]

Germaine Tailleferre: String Quartet (1917)
Stenhammar Quartet

Carl Nielsen
Serenade, FS 300 (Sung in English)
Morten Broup's May Song), FS 305 (Sung in English)
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Michael Bojesen (conductor)

8.50
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No 4 'Inextinguishable'

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Tue 10 May 2022 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Daniel Kidane

    Be Still

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.16

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric pieces - Book 3 Op.43 'To the Spring'

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    String Quartet

    Ensemble: Stenhammar Quartet.
    • ALBA.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenade, FS 300 (Sung in English)

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Michael Bojesen.
    • DA CAPO.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Morten Broup's (May Song), FS 305 (Sung in English)

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Michael Bojesen.
    • DA CAPO.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Flower Pollen from Profusion CNW343 (Sung in English)

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Michael Bojesen.
    • DA CAPO.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No. 4 Op.29 (The Inextinguishable)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Elegy for String Orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 86 in D major

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9-12.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Cha-cha)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles etc.:LSO/Tilson Thomas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Tue 10 May 2022 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3