Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
We begin the programme with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall. Violinist Anthony Marwood and accordion player James Crabb give the English premiere of Thomas Adès’s Märchentänze alongside Crabb’s own arrangement of The Lark Ascending, which enhances the mystical beauty of Vaughan Williams’s original. These are flanked by intoxicating dances by Astor Piazzolla, and two fiery Gaelic reels.
Elsewhere we have music from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, who bring us a feast of Romantic repertoire with Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture, and Beethoven’s ionate Eroica Symphony with conductor Clemens Schuldt.
And Elizabeth also has stunning recordings from the Perth Piano Series. Today, French pianist Bertrand Chamayou dazzles in music by Liszt and Ravel.
Live from Wigmore Hall, introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
Astor Piazzolla (arr. Crabb)
Trad. Tango Suite: S.V.P.
Tzigane, Tango and Preparense
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Crabb)
The Lark Ascending
Thomas Adès
Märchentänze
Sally Beamish (arr. Crabb)
Lament from Seavaigers
Scottish/Border Trad.(arr. Crabb)
Struan Robertson’s Rant/Cuckold come out of the Amery
Anthony Marwood (violin) & James Crabb (accordion)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)
Joseph Haydn
The Mermaid’s Song
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Melvyn Tan (piano)
Franz Liszt
2 Legends - No. 2 “St. Francis walking on the waters”
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Wagner
The Flying Dutchman Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D minor, Op. 42
Takacs Quartet
Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit, M. 55
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
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