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Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis with the Philharmonia

At the Royal Festival Hall, Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in an all-American programme, including Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Wynton Marsalis's Violin Concerto.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in an exciting all-American programme from the 20th and 21st centuries.

With music redolent of the spirituals, blues and gospel of his native America, Wynton Marsalis's violin concerto also includes folk-like fiddle tunes and ends with an exuberant hootenanny: affectionate nods to its dedicatee, Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti.

Three Black Kings, for jazz band and symphony orchestra, was Duke Ellington鈥檚 final composition, its last movement a gospel-inspired tribute to Martin Luther King. The first two movements respectively evoke Balthazar, one of the three wise men who travelled to Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus, and the Old Testament King Solomon.

Gershwin鈥檚 1935 landmark opera Porgy and Bess is a gritty depiction of a poor black fishing community in the American South. The story is grim but the songs 鈥� including 'Summertime', 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now', 'It Ain鈥檛 Necessarily So' 鈥� are some of the greatest and most memorable of all time, presented tonight in a symphonic orchestration.

Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Martin Handley.

Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto
Ellington: Three Black Kings
Gershwin (arr. Bennett): Porgy and Bess: a Symphonic Picture

Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 9 Nov 2023 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ebony Concerto

    Performer: Michel Arrignon. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Berg: Chamber Concerto.
    • Deutsche Grammophone.
    • 8.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    Afro-American Suite: III. Adagio ma appassionato

    Ensemble: Mallarm茅 Chamber Players.
    • Songs for the Soul.
    • Albany Records.
    • 3.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    We Shall Walk Through The Valley

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • VOCES8 Records.

  • Duke Ellington

    Three Black Kings

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Music Arranger: Robert Russell Bennett.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses nobles et sentimentales

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Maurice Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Erato.
    • 12.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Choro no. 1 (Suite populaire Br茅slienne)

    Performer: Tom Kerstens.
    • BGS.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Nov 2023 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3