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Russian romance and Icelandic elements

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2022

Live from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 8: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov with pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and a new work by Guðnadóttir.

Live from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 8: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov with pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and a new work by Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Presented by Sarah Walker live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jóhann Jóhannsson :The Miners’ Hymns – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18

20.10
Interval:
The film Brief Encounter features in the top ten romantic films of yesteryear list compiled by the Reader’s Digest Magazine. That publication is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of Interval features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the Â鶹ԼÅÄ was founded – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader’s Digest.

20.30
Hildur Guðnadóttir: The Fact of the Matter (Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

A piano sounds quietly in the silence; an old song, long buried, heaves itself upwards to echo and resound anew. At first, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s atmospheric reworkings of Durham miners’ songs might not sound as if they have much to do with Rachmaninov’s popular Piano Concerto No.2. But in the hands of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska and pianist Denis Kozhukhin, they become part of a deeper, darker picture: an unfolding soundscape that embraces both the soaring romantic tragedy of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and the elemental sonorities of Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir – the extraordinary, Academy Award-winning musical imagination behind Joker and Chernobyl.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Wed 20 Jul 2022 19:30
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Music Played

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    The Miners' Hymns - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Children's Album Op.39 No.4

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.

  • Hildur Guðnadóttir

    The Fact of the Matter (World Premiere)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Fantasy Overture - Romeo and Juliet

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Impromptu, Op 86

    Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Carnival de Venise.
    • SAIN.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations (Aria and Variation I)

    Music Arranger: Catrin Finch. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988.
    • DG.

  • Sally Beamish

    St Catharine's Service: i. Magnificat

    Choir: Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Edward Wickham.
    • Gaudent In Coelis.
    • RESONUS.
    • 17.

  • Sally Beamish

    St Catharine's Service: ii. Nunc Dimittis

    Choir: Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Edward Wickham.
    • Gaudent In Coelis.
    • RESONUS.
    • 18.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Jul 2022 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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