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Yuja Wang, The Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Klaus Makela at the Edinburgh International Festival

Ravel's two piano concertos and a landmark Shostakovich symphony from pianist Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Klaus Makela.

Two jazz-influenced works open tonight鈥檚 concert with the international piano virtuoso Yuja Wang, the Oslo Philharmonic and trailblazing young conductor Klaus M盲kel盲.

Ravel heard jazz during a concert tour of America in the late 1920s and he used some of those sounds and sensibilities in his G major and D major piano concertos, working on them both simultaneously. He had in mind the concerto in G for himself and the one in D (for the left hand) for the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein. For this Ravel created in his own words a 鈥榮olemn kind of traditional concerto鈥�, challenging himself to write a 鈥榯exture no thinner than that of a part written for both hands鈥�. After the interval Shostakovich鈥檚 fifth symphony, written at the height of the Stalin regime in Russia when the composer was under intense scrutiny 鈥� a work that remains enigmatic to this day.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

20.15
Interval - a selection of jazz inspired music by Shostakovich.

20.35
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op. 47

Yuja Wang - piano
Oslo Philharmonic
Klaus Makela - conductor

Donald Macleod - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 14 Sep 2023 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No. 2

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich - Concertos, Orchestral Suites, Chamber Symphonies & other pieces.
    • Decca.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a

    Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Chiaroscuro.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op. 47

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.

  • Richard Wagner

    Eine Sonate fur das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck

    Performer: Pier Paolo Vincenzi.
    • Wagner: Complete Piano Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 1.

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Aupr猫s du feu l'on fait l'amour

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Lea Desandre.
    • Idylle.
    • Warner.
    • 6.

  • Jose Viana da Mota

    In锚s de Castro - Tone Poem (1886)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: 脕lvaro Cassuto.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Sep 2023 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3