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Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Berlioz, MacMillan and Maxwell Davies

Live from City Halls in Glasgow, acclaimed mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the SCO Chorus and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev.

Live from City Halls in Glasgow, acclaimed mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the SCO Chorus and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev for a concert inspired by poets and writers. Berlioz wrote La Mort de Cleopatre after reading French poet Vieillard’s depiction of the Egyptian queen’s dramatic final moments. He noted in his memoirs β€˜here was an idea worth expressing in music’. Just a few years later he composed his Rob Roy Overture inspired by the tales of another writer, Sir Walter Scott. Sir James MacMillan’s new work for choir and orchestra receives its world premiere broadcast, setting a nature-infused love song by Robert Burns. Finally, Peter Maxwell Davies evokes a night of celebrations at an Orcadian wedding, with bagpipes announcing the rising morning sun.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Berlioz: Rob Roy Overture
Berlioz: La Mort De Cleopatre
MacMillan: Composed In August (World Premiere Broadcast)
Maxwell Davies: Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Karen Cargill, Mezzo-soprano
Robert Jordan, Bagpipes
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
SCO Chorus
Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor
Gregory Batsleer, Chorus director

Presenter: Tom McKinney
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Mar 2024 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Rob Roy

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.

  • Hector Berlioz

    La mort de ClΓ©opΓ’tre

    Performer: Karen Cargill. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Composed in August

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Composed in August

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    - An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Violin Sonata No 1 in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Akira Eguchi.
    • Faure: Works for Violin, Piano and Cello.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 102.

  • Jean‐FΓ©ry Rebel

    Les Plaisirs champetres for 2 violins and bc

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.1 in B flat minor)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Mar 2024 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3