CBSO Plays Tchaikovsky
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute and a new piece by Hans Abrahamsen, 'let me tell you'.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony with their new music director, 30-year-old Lithuanian Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute and a new piece by Hans Abrahamsen also feature in this broadcast presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Written in 1877, Tchaikovsky's Fourth famously explores the forces of fate wrestling with human happiness, through music by turns tragic, yearning and celebratory.
The curtain-raiser is Mozart's overture to his opera The Magic Flute. It packs a punch in just a few minutes, with playful inventiveness and dramatic shifts between sparkling melodies and the famous 'masonic' three chords which open and punctuate it.
There's also the London premiere of Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen's acclaimed new work 'let me tell you'. Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan balances extraordinary vocal dexterity with emotional subtlety to create a powerful interpretation of Hamlet's troubled Ophelia.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute Β overture
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga GraΕΎinytΔβTyla. -
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Hans Abrahamsen & Barbara Hannigan
let me tell you
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga GraΕΎinytΔβTyla. -
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Barbara Hannigan
Symphony No 4 in F minor
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga GraΕΎinytΔβTyla.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Sara Mohr-Pietsch |
| Conductor | Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla |
| Orchestra | CBSO |
| Singer | Barbara Hannigan |
| Producer | Serena Cross |
| Director | Pati Marr |
Broadcast
- Sun 4 Sep 2016 19:00
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