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A Night at the Ballet

Another chance to hear three suites of ballet music chosen and conducted by Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth, former music director of the Royal Ballet.

Another chance to hear three pieces of ballet music chosen and conducted by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth, who is also former Music Director of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. Malcolm Arnold’s Homage to the Queen was commissioned by Sadler’s Wells in 1953 for the Queen’s coronation. Gavin Gordon is best remembered today for his ballet The Rake’s Progress but in 1925 he wrote the one act ballet Les Noces Imaginaires – a marriage between dolls – whilst still a student of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music. In part 2 we will hear Barry Wordsworth’s selection from the perennial favourite Coppelia, which features mechanical dolls from the workshop of Dr Coppelius. Recorded at the Watford Colosseum in March 2017 and presented by Ian Skelly.

Malcolm Arnold ‘Water’ from Homage to the Queen
Gavin Gordon Suite: Les Noces Imaginaires

INTERVAL

Delibes Suite: Coppélia

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra
Conductor Barry Wordsworth

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 6 May 2020 19:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Water (Homage to the Queen)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Gavin Gordon

    Les Noces Imaginaires Suite

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Joby Talbot

    April - 1st Day of Summer

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Everton Nelson. Performer: Chris Worsey. Performer: Rob Farrer. Performer: Manon Morris.

  • Joby Talbot

    Dead Space

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Everton Nelson. Performer: Chris Worsey. Performer: Rob Farrer. Performer: Manon Morris.

  • Joby Talbot

    May- Cumulonimbus

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Everton Nelson. Performer: Chris Worsey. Performer: Rob Farrer. Performer: Manon Morris.

  • Léo Delibes

    Suite: Coppelia

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Thomas Adès

    Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Thomas Adès.
    • Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Mass in G minor

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Singer: Harriet Colley. Singer: Jessica Wallington. Singer: Nicholas Morrell. Singer: Stefan Berkieta. Conductor: Timothy Brown.
    • Vaughan Williams: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Wed 6 May 2020 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3