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New Year New Music: Thursday Opera Matinee

The world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water to a libretto by Lassi Nummi.

This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year, New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he looks at high modernism and introduces extracts from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

followed by Thursday Opera Matinee:

Jonathan Swain presents the world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water to a libretto by Lassi Nummi

Finland's Olavinlinna Castle was built in the middle ages to safeguard the strategically important region of Savo. Over the years, it has seen many changes of regime, clashing swords and thundering cannons. The Castle in the Water, a new opera commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival, pictures stages in the Castle's and region's colourful past, and takes a tentative look into the future

Aulis Sallinen describes his composition as: 'A chronicle for speaker, four singers, orchestra and Olavinlinna'. The work is based on the collection of poetry, "The Castle in the Water" by Lassi Nummi, from which Sallinen has chosen two texts as mottos for the whole work

Aulis Sallinen: Castle in the Water
Kari Heiskanen, speaker
Tiina-Maija Koskela, soprano
Tuija Knihtil盲, mezzo-soprano
Jussi Jyllys, tenor
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
Ville Matvejeff, conductor.

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Thu 4 Jan 2018 14:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Le Grand Macabre (excerpt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no. 4 in A minor Op.63

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.

  • Aulis Sallinen

    Castle in the Water

    Narrator: Kari Heiskanen. Singer: Tiina-Maija Koskela. Orchestra: Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Ville Matvejeff.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Under the Fir Trees on the Shore (orch Sallinen)

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    In Seven Days

    Performer: Laura Mikkola. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Jan 2018 14:00
    91热爆 Radio 3