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Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kapustin and Borodin

Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Philharmonia perform some colourful orchestral showpieces, and they're joined by Frank Dupree for Nikolai Kapustin's exuberant Piano Concerto No. 5.

Recorded earlier this month, the Philharmonia Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali bring a tuneful and colourful programme to the Royal Festival Hall. It's bookended by two orchestral showpieces: Glinka's and Rimsky-Korsakov's impressions of Spain, a country which represented the far-away and exotic to 19th-century Russians.

Also on the bill, a work by Rimsky's contemporary and music's most famous research chemist, Alexander Borodin. Borodin's Symphony No. 2 embraces heroic grandeur and humour, and also a whiff of the exotic with its nod to Orientalism, another preoccupation for fashionable Russians then. Before it, comes the fifth piano concerto of Nikolai Kapustin. Frank Dupree, tireless champion of the Ukrainian-Soviet composer, is the soloist in this immediately likeable and exuberant music which fuses classical form with a dizzying, freewheeling 1940s US jazz aesthetic.

Introduced by Martin Handley.

Glinka: Capriccio Brillante (Spanish Overture No. 1)
Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5 (UK premiere)
Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

Frank Dupree (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 19 Mar 2024 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Capriccio brillante on 'Jota aragonesa' for orchestra (Spanish overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Concerto no. 5 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Frank Dupree. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • Duke Ellington

    Caravan

    Performer: Frank Dupree. Music Arranger: Frank Dupree. Ensemble: Philharmonia Players.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ragtime for 11 instruments

    Ensemble: Boston Symphony Chamber Players.
    • DG.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo a la russe

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ebony Concerto: III. Moderato - Con moto

    Performer: Michel Arrignon. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony no. 2 in B minor

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol Op.34

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole for 2 pianos

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque.
    • Maurice Ravel Katia Et Marielle Labeque.
    • KML.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata no.2 in A Major BWV.1015

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5-8.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Mar 2024 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3