Tuesday - Vaughan Williams 150: Holst, lifelong friend
As Radio 3 celebrates Vaughan Williams 150, Daniel Harding conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in The Planets by Gustav Holst, a lifelong friend of RVW.
Ian Skelly continues a week of afternoons as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams, with music by Vaughan Williams alongside some of the composers who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.
Today's 3pm spotlight falls on Holst, a lifelong friend of Vaughan Williams, as Daniel Harding conducts The Planets with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Louis Lortie plays Finzi, Kriss Russman conducts his own arrangement of Butterworth's Suite for String Quartet, and music by Purcell from a concert given by Choeur Les Elements at the Occitanie Montpellier Festival. Plus, Antonio Pappano conducts RVW's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and a new Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic recording of music by one of the composer's students, Ruth Gipps.
Including:
Parry: I Was Glad
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Finzi: Eclogue, Op. 10
Louis Lortie, piano
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor
Butterworth: Suite for String Quartette (arr. Kriss Russman)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Kriss Russman, conductor
c.2.45pm
Gipps: Death on the Pale Horse, Op. 25
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Eccles: The Mad Lover
Choeur Les Elements
Les Ombres
Joel Suhubiette, conductor
c.3pm
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Bavarian Radio SO
Daniel Harding, conductor
Rec. 25/2/22 SM/2021/09/32/04
Purcell: O God, thou hast cast us out
Tallis: If Ye Love Me
c.3.55pm
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Santa Cecilia Orchestra
Antonio Pappano, conductor
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Music Played
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Hubert Parry
I was glad
Choir: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn. -
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Gerald Finzi
Eclogue, Op. 10
Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- CHSA5214.
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George Butterworth
Suite for String Quartette
Music Arranger: KriΕ΅s Russman. Conductor: KriΕ΅s Russman. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales.- Bis.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Piano Quintet in C minor (1st mvt)
Ensemble: London Soloists Ensemble.- Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet.
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Ruth Gipps
Death on a pale horse
Performer: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Performer: Rumon Gamba. -
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Henry Purcell
Remember not, Lord, our offences
Choir: Les Γ‰lΓ©ments. Orchestra: Les Ombres. Conductor: JoΓ«l Suhubiette. -
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John Eccles
The Mad Lover
Choir: Les Γ‰lΓ©ments. Orchestra: Les Ombres. Conductor: JoΓ«l Suhubiette. -
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Gustav Holst
The Planets, op. 32
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding. -
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Henry Purcell
When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- CHANDOS.
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Henry Purcell
O God, thou hast cast us out
Choir: Les Γ‰lΓ©ments. Orchestra: Les Ombres. Conductor: JoΓ«l Suhubiette. -
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Thomas Tallis
If Ye Love Me
Choir: Les Γ‰lΓ©ments. Orchestra: Les Ombres. Conductor: JoΓ«l Suhubiette. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. -
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Samuel Barber
Summer Music
Ensemble: Les Vents Français.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Performer: Karl-Heinz SchΓΌtz. Performer: Matthias Schorn. Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic String Quartet.
Broadcast
- Tue 11 Oct 2022 14:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3