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A Sea Symphony and Earth Dances

Martyn Brabbins conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO and Chorus in Birtwistle's Earth Dances and Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony, with soloists Elizabeth Llewellyn and Marcus Farnsworth.

Martyn Brabbins conducts Birtwistle's Earth Dances and Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony.

Sir Harrison Birtwistle's large-scale orchestral work from 1986 explores the element of Earth with a primordial power and colossal ambition: it's one of his greatest scores and impresses with its strength and ambition 30 years on. Martyn Brabbins, a master of this music, then turns his attention to the element of Water - Ralph Vaughan Williams's choral A Sea Symphony, one of the most confident first symphonies ever, first heard in 1910, with its two singers lifting the poetry of Walt Whitman into song.
Two superb singers of the younger generation and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus join the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra for a programme that exults in the power of nature

Presented by Martin Handley and recorded at the Barbican Hall in London on 13th October.

Harrison Birtwistle: Earth Dances

2010 Interval Music
Herbert Howells: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in E flat major op26

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 16 Oct 2017 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 49:37

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Earth Dances

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Interval

    Duration: 22:34

  • Herbert Howells

    Sonata no 2 in Eflat major for violin and piano

    Performer: Paul Barritt. Performer: Catherine Edwards.
    • Hyperion: CDA66665.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12-14.

  • Part 2

    Duration: 01:20:48

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Singer: Elizabeth Llewellyn. Singer: Marcus Farnsworth.

Credits

Performer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Performer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Oct 2017 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3