Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO Sakari Oramo in Clyne, Britten and Beethoven

Live from Barbican Hall, Sakari Oramo conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in music by Anna Clyne, Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang, & Beethoven's 6th Symphony.

Live from Barbican Hall, Sakari Oramo conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in music by Anna Clyne, Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang, & Beethoven's 6th Symphony, 'Pastoral'.

Presented by Martin Handley

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour (2015)
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15

8.15pm
Interval

8.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68

Vilde Frang (violin)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

British composer Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two poems, one by Juan RamΓ³n JimΓ©nez, where music is described as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) . Expect a magic-lantern show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal sounds.

Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Concerto, one of the profoundest of twentieth century concertos for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the shadows and one that Frang has made her own.

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6 concludes tonight's excursions in sound; but here it is a composer's infatuation with nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, that lights the score. A concert certain to display Sakari Oramo's range and superb rapport with his orchestra.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 21 Mar 2018 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Sondheim on Sondheim

Next

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Nielsen and Mozart

See all episodes from Radio 3 in Concert

Recipes

See all recipes from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO Sakari Oramo in Clyne, Britten and Beethoven

Music Played

  • Anna Clyne

    This Midnight Hour

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto Op.15

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.

  • Carl RΓΌtti

    Alpha et Omega

    Singer: Lesley-Jane Rogers. Singer: Deborah Miles-Johnson. Singer: Neil MacKenzie. Singer: Simon Birchall. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Stephen Jackson.
    • ASV.

  • Othmar Schoeck

    Wiegenlied

    Performer: Wolfram Rieger. Singer: Juliane Banse.
    • JECKLIN.

  • Othmar Schoeck

    Septembermorgen

    Performer: Wolfram Rieger. Singer: Juliane Banse.
    • JECKLIN.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.6 in F Op.68 'Pastorale'

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • EΜ„riks Ešenvalds

    Infelix ego (after Byrd)

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • William Byrd

    The Great Service (Magnificat)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 9.

Credit

Performer ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus

Broadcast

  • Wed 21 Mar 2018 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

Featured in...