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Sound Frontiers: The Philharmonia performs Stravinsky

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex and Symphony of Psalms, featuring bass Willard White.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall

The Philharmonia conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen perform Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and Oedipus rex, which features Sir Willard White and Katarina Dalayman, produced by Peter Sellars.

Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus rex - opera/oratorio in 2 acts

Interval - Interval music

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms for chorus & orchestra

Oedipus...Joseph Kaiser (tenor)
Jocasta...Katarina Dalayman (mezzo-soprano)
Creon/Tiresias/Messenger... Willard White (bass)
Shepherd...Joshua Stewart (tenor)
Orphei DrΓ€ngar
Ladies of the Gustaf SjΓΆkvists KammarkΓΆr
Ladies of the Sofia Vokalensemble
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

To a text by Cocteau derived from Sophocles and translated back into Latin, Stravinsky's Oedipus rex is a chilling, monumental retelling of the tragic myth. A work that abandons sentiment, it confronts the spectator with the true horror of the 'infernal machine' of fate. The Latin Psalms, too, seemingly so ancient, so distant, speak here of the tragedy of exile through a music of electrifying austerity and intensity.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 29 Sep 2016 19:30
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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Oedipus rex

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.

  • Interval

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Adagietto from Sonata

      Performer: Boris Berman.

  • Part 2

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Symphony of Psalms

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.

  • Post-concert

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Hymn of thanksgiving from String quartet in A minor Op.132

      Ensemble: Quartetto Italiano.
      • Boccherini, Mozart & Beethoven - Quartetto Italiano.
      • ICA Classics.
      • 9.

Broadcast

  • Thu 29 Sep 2016 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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