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Italian Moments

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the CBSO from Symphony Hall, Birmingham featuring the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in a festive concert recorded for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Day

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, from Symphony Hall, Birmingham – featuring the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. Their programme, recorded for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Day, is entitled 'Italian Moments' and evokes the beautiful atmosphere of the 'bel paese', ending with Respighi's grandiose and festive paean to pageantry, his symphonic poem Feste Romane.

PROGRAMME

PART ONE
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
(Pavel Kolesnikov - piano)

INTERVAL
Performances from disc from four of the music makers included on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Woman's Hour Power List 2018, announced today. The list has been created to recognise 40 of the most successful women working across the full range of today's music industry.

PART TWO
Puccini: Intermezzi from Madam Butterfly and Manon Lescaut
Respighi: Feste Romane

CBSO
Alpesh Chauhun (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 Sep 2018 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz In A Minor Op.Posth.

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thais)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Massenet: Thais.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Anna Meredith

    Solistice (Light Out)

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Anno: Four Seasons.
    • Moshi Moshi.
    • 16.

  • Issie Barratt

    Der Onkel

    Performer: Issie Barratt.
    • Issie Barratt's Meinrad Iten Suite.
    • Fuzzy Moon Records.

  • Franz Schubert

    String quintet In A Major, D667 (Trout)

    Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Ensemble: Fontenay Trio.
    • TELDEC : 0630-13153 2.
    • TELDEC.
    • 3.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Manon Lescaut (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Feste Romane

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Philip Glass

    Etudes Nos.6 & 5

    Performer: VΓ­kingur Γ“lafsson.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 Sep 2018 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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