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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Japan 2022 - First Night

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, perform music by Dai Fujikura, Shostakovich, and with soloist Nicola Benedetti, Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, for the First Night of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Japan 2022. Dai Fujikura's 'Glorious Clouds' opens the concert: the result of the Japanese composer's unusual obsession with microorganisms flying around us! Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Sibelius's dramatic Violin Concerto and in the second half is Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony - a work with which the composer managed to appease the Soviet censors while also expressing the horrors of his time.

Recorded at the Orchard Hall, Tokyo on 31st October
Presented by Penny Gore

Dai Fujikura: Glorious Clouds
Sibelius: Violin Concerto Op.47

20.30
Interval: Japanese Music chosen by Dai Fujikura

Traditional Japanese: Kakiokuru (music from the Edo period)
Hidetaro Honjoh (singer and shamisen)

Traditional Japanese: Entenraku (Kangen) (Gagaku music)
Reigakusha Gagaku ensemble

Toru Takemitsu: Rain tree sketch I for piano
Yo Kosuge (piano)

Toru Takemitsu: In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku ensemble [1973] (excerpt)
The Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency Tokyo

20.50
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Op.57

Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 3 Nov 2022 19:30
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Music Played

  • Dai Fujikura

    Glorious Clouds

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D Minor Op.47

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Auld Lang Syne (arr. Petr Limonov)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti.

  • Traditional Japanese

    Kakiokuru (Edo song from Edo Period)

    Singer: Hidetaro Honjoh.

  • Traditional Japanese

    Etenraku (Kangen) - Gagaku Music

    Ensemble: Reigakusha.
    • COLUMBIA.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Rain Tree Sketch No.1

    Performer: Yu Kosuge.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    In an Autumn Garden (Excerpt)

    Ensemble: The Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency Tokyo.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHONE.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No.5 in D Minor Op.47

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Myroslav Skoryk

    Melody

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ramah

    Performer: Ionel Manciu. Performer: Dominic Degavino.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Nov 2022 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3