Russian romance and Icelandic elements
Live from 91Èȱ¬ Proms 8: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra & 91Èȱ¬ Singers conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov with pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and a new work by Guðnadóttir.
Live from 91Èȱ¬ Proms 8: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra & 91Èȱ¬ Singers conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov with pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and a new work by Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Presented by Sarah Walker live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Jóhann Jóhannsson :The Miners’ Hymns – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18
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Interval:
The film Brief Encounter features in the top ten romantic films of yesteryear list compiled by the Reader’s Digest Magazine. That publication is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of Interval features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the 91Èȱ¬ was founded – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest.
20.30
Hildur Guðnadóttir: The Fact of the Matter (91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
91Èȱ¬ Singers
91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
A piano sounds quietly in the silence; an old song, long buried, heaves itself upwards to echo and resound anew. At first, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s atmospheric reworkings of Durham miners’ songs might not sound as if they have much to do with Rachmaninov’s popular Piano Concerto No.2. But in the hands of 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska and pianist Denis Kozhukhin, they become part of a deeper, darker picture: an unfolding soundscape that embraces both the soaring romantic tragedy of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and the elemental sonorities of Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir – the extraordinary, Academy Award-winning musical imagination behind Joker and Chernobyl.
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Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Miners' Hymns - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh
Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. -
Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor
Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Children's Album Op.39 No.4
Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. -
Hildur Guðnadóttir
The Fact of the Matter (World Premiere)
Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: 91Èȱ¬ Singers. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture - Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. -
Gabriel Fauré
Impromptu, Op 86
Performer: Catrin Finch.- Carnival de Venise.
- SAIN.
- 7.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations (Aria and Variation I)
Music Arranger: Catrin Finch. Performer: Catrin Finch.- Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988.
- DG.
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Sally Beamish
St Catharine's Service: i. Magnificat
Choir: Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Edward Wickham.- Gaudent In Coelis.
- RESONUS.
- 17.
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Sally Beamish
St Catharine's Service: ii. Nunc Dimittis
Choir: Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Edward Wickham.- Gaudent In Coelis.
- RESONUS.
- 18.
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