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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2020 Live

Stephen Hough joins Alpesh Chauhan and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Also works by George Walker, Richard Strauss, and Jay Capperauld.

Live from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from City Halls, Glasgow

Beethoven’s economically scored Second Piano Concerto – written before his First and among the earliest of his works performed in concert halls today – looks both backwards to Haydn and Mozart and forwards to Beethoven’s future innovation and rhythmic fascination.

Tonight’s ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ commission is from Glasgow-based composer Jay Capperauld. Expressed in the context of the recurring 24-hour process that regulates our sleeping patterns, Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) is Capperauld’s response to the cyclical nature of lockdown, enforced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Continuing the theme of mass upheaval, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra closes with Strauss’s devastating Metamorphosen. Written for 23 solo strings during the final months of the Second World War (which Strauss described as β€˜the most terrible period of mankind’), it quotes from the Funeral March of Beethoven’s β€˜Eroica’ Symphony (No. 3).

Walker Lyric for Strings
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Jay Capperauld Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ commission: world premiere)
Strauss Metamorphosen

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Hough, piano
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Sat 5 Sep 2020 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Walker

    Lyric for strings

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.2

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Richard Strauss

    Traumerei Op.9 No.4

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Jay Capperauld

    Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Larmes De Jacqueline (Harmonies des bois)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga GraΕΎinytė‐Tyla.
    • Inspiration.
    • DECCA.
    • 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    Death and the Maiden (arr. 12 Ensemble)

    Music Arranger: 12 Ensemble. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Laura Marling

    Howl

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  • Sat 5 Sep 2020 19:30
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