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Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2023

Live at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.

Live at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major

Interval
Violinist Rachel Podger talks to Hannah French about Vivaldi, and her experience performing Vivaldi's music on period instruments with her ensemble Brecon Baroque.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (interspersed with folk music improvisations)

Ale Carr, cittern
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Pekka Kuusisto, violin/conductor

Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads one of Europe’s top chamber orchestras, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, in a Prom part-inspired by the natural world. A Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ documentary was the starting point for Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise, whose iridescent colours and sharp textural contrasts capture the exotic birds. Closer to home, a cuckoo calls out in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, whose pastoral scenes are heard as never before here – interspersed with folk music improvisations by Kuusisto and citternist Ale Carr. Beethoven’s youthful First Symphony forms the beating heart of the programme.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Sun 16 Jul 2023 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Andrea Tarrodi

    Birds of Paradise

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Pekka Kuusisto.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 1 in C major

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Pekka Kuusisto.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Performer: Ale Carr. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen Fantasy

    Composer: Georges Bizet. Performer: Bomsori. Orchestra: Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata no. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 no. 1: I. Allegro Appassionato

    Performer: Fausto Ghiazza. Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Guiseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Jul 2023 19:30
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