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DvoΕ™Γ‘k, Liszt, Kanai, and Takemitsu

Nodoka Okisawa and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales explore a mix of Eastern and Western musical traditions through the music of Takemitsu, Kanai, Liszt, and DvoΕ™Γ‘k

Nodoko Okisawa makes her debut conducting the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales for a programme which brings together Japan and Eastern Europe. The first half begins with prolific Japanese film composer Tōru Takemitsu, and a suite that he made by reworking his music from three very different films. Blues, threnody, waltz - the style of each movement shows a vastly different side to a composer that we think we know, creating a perfectly balanced concert suite. This is followed by Okinawan composer Kikuko Kanai's Capriccio Okinawa, a work from one of the first Japanese women to compose in a Western style, and its first performance in the UK. She transcribed traditional Okinawan melodies to use in the work, which also features the instrument at the heart of Okinawan folk music, the Sanshin. After the interval, Iyad Sughayer joins the Orchestra for Liszt's poetic Second Piano concerto, and the concert concludes with a tone poem by DvoΕ™Γ‘k - his Wild or Wood Dove. The music masterfully tells the story by Czech folklorist Karel JaromΓ­r Erben, in which the dove of the title eventually drives a guilty wife to suicide.

Presented by Verity Sharp in Hoddinott Hall, recorded on the 24th of February.

Takemitsu: Three Film Scores (12')
Kanai: Capriccio Okinawa (25')
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A major, S 125 (21')
DvoΕ™Γ‘k: The Wood Dove, B 198 (19')

Iyad Sughayer (piano)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Nodoka Okisawa (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

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Wed 3 Apr 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Three Film Scores

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nodoka Okisawa.

  • Kikuko Kanai

    Capriccio Okinawa

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nodoka Okisawa.

  • Shih-Hui Chen

    Fantasia on the Theme of Plum Blossom (3rd mvt, 'Plum Blossoms')

    Ensemble: Formosa Quartet.
    • Shih-Hui Chen.
    • New World.
    • 14.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images Set 2 (No 3, 'Poissons D'Or')

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Debussy: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto No 2 in A major

    Performer: Iyad Sughayer. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nodoka Okisawa.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    The Wild Dove, Op 110

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nodoka Okisawa.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    String Quartet in E Minor (complete)

    • Giuseppe Verdi & Benjamin Britten: String Quartet in E Minor & String Quartet No.
    • 2014 Ameritz Music Ltd..

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Apr 2024 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3