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Prom 15: Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony

Live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jordan de Souza, perform Bernstein, Walker, Tchaikovsky, and with soloist Johan Dalene, Barber's Violin Concerto.

Live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jordan de Souza, perform Bernstein, George Walker, Tchaikovsky, and Barber's Violin Concerto with Johan Dalene.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Leonard Bernstein: Candide – overture
George Walker: Variations for Orchestra
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto

20.10 Interval
Continuing our series looking at cultural innovations which took place in the same year as the founding of the ´óÏó´«Ã½, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough hears how the All England Tennis Club’s move to its current home in Wimbledon in 1922 was far from a smooth, uncontroversial process.

20.30
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Johan Dalene (violin)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Jordan de Souza (conductor)

All is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds! That's the motto of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, but the swinging trumpets that launch its overture are just one side of the musical American Dream – whether it’s the soaring nostalgia of Barber's sunlit Violin Concerto (played by former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Johan Dalene) or the urban energy of George Walker's altogether edgier 1970s classic. And then Jordan de Souza and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra spin on a dime and plunge into Tchaikovsky's autobiographical Fourth Symphony: terror, triumph and one man’s life-or-death struggle with the force that he called Fate. In other words, the ultimate symphonic thriller.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide - Comic Operetta In 2 Acts ; Overture

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jordan de Souza.
  • George Walker

    Variations

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jordan de Souza.
  • Samuel Barber

    Concerto Op.14

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jordan de Souza.
  • Eugène Ysaÿe

    Sonata for Solo Violin No.4 Movt iii Finale

    Performer: Johan Dalene.
  • Eugène Ysaÿe

    Sonata for Solo Violin No.4 Movt iii Finale

    Performer: Johan Dalene.
  • Elena Ruehr

    Insect Dances- Bumblebee Boogie-Woogie

    Ensemble: Arneis Quartet.
    • AVIE.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 In F Minor Op.36

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jordan de Souza.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Sonatina (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Neglected Works For Piano.
    • db Productions.
    • 6.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Sonatina: ii.Molto adagio

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Neglected Works For Piano.
    • db Productions.
    • 7.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Piano Sonatina (III. Allegro molto)

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Neglected Works For Piano.
    • db Productions.
    • 8.
  • Grace Williams

    Suite for 9 Instruments: III. Allegro con brio

    Ensemble: London Chamber Ensemble.
    • Grace Williams: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 303.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Jul 2022 19:30

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