20240208hr

Concert hall
Arnold Schönberg 150 (1) - Presentiments and the Past

Radical and revolutionary, evolutionary and epochal. The composer Arnold Schoenberg, who would have been one hundred and fifty years old on September 13, 2024, has changed music history forever. And that with reverberation - to this day.

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951):
"Transfigured Night
" op. 4 (1899) for string sextet.
1st version for string orchestra (1917)Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Eliahu Inbal
(Live recording 12 January 1995, Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main)


Five orchestral pieces op. 16 (1909)
hr-Sinfonieorchester
conductor: Lothar Zagrosek
(studio production, 8 March 1996, hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt am Main)

Accompaniment to a cinema scene for orchestra op. 34 (1929/30)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Brad Lubman
(Live recording 27 November 2015 Kurhaus Wiesbaden)Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (BWV 552)Instrumentation for orchestra 1928 by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Hugh Wolff
(Live recording 24 June 2000, Eberbach Abbey )

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8:03 p.m.
Concert
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
Recording from 31.01.2024

Jean Sibelius
"Rakastava" op. 14

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major op. 19

Dora Pejačević
Symphony in F sharp minor op. 41

Inmo Yang, violin
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sakari Oramo

Inmo Yang won the legendary Sibelius Violin Competition in 2022. Now he plays Sergei Prokofiev's lyrical First Violin Concerto at the site of his triumph, in the Finnish capital. Conductor Sakari Oramo has also programmed the magnificent only symphony by the Croatian late Romantic composer Dora Pejačević.

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P2 Koncerten - The Royal Danish Orchestra's 575th anniversary concert

The year was 1448, when Christian 1 created his trumpeter corps and laid the foundation for what we know today as the Royal Danish Chapel.

Join the concert and hear the orchestra play music from three centuries: Bach (arr. Stokowski): Toccata and fugue in D minor. Brahms (arr. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25.Bartok: Concerto for orchestra. The Royal Danish Orchestra.Conductor: Gabor Tackas-Nagy. (The Opera, September 28).

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Bernstein's Last Concert

The great American conductor Leonard Bernstein burned his candle at both ends, and he conducted with great intensity right up until his last concert at the age of 72. It took place in Boston two months before his death in 1990. Earlier that year, Bernstein had been in Europe giving concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and conducting music by one of his favorite composers, Gustav Mahler - both of which you can hear in this edition of the Golden Concerto.

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Jacqueline du Pré in Denmark

In 1969, the world-famous cellist Jacqueline du Pré visited the Danish National Symphony Orchestra twice: in April she played Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major, and in September she was soloist in her brilliant number, Elgar's Cello Concerto, conducted by her husband Daniel Barenboim. A few years later, Jacqueline du Pré had to stop her career due to sclerosis, but the historical recordings of the then only 24-year-old cello star are preserved in DR's archive. Jacqueline du Pré, cello. DR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mogens Wöldike. (Radiohusets Koncertsal, 18 April and 11 September 1969)

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P2 Guldkoncerten - Kurt Sanderling og Det Kongelige Kapel

Det Kongelige Kapel - verdens ældste orkester - fejrer i denne måned 575-års jubilæum. Guldkoncerten præsenterer et genhør med en af de mange store aftener i orkestrets historie: En koncert fra 1982 med den tyske dirigent Kurt Sanderling og tre hovedværker fra den senromantiske musik, nemlig værker af Wagner, R Strauss og og Mahler.

Sheila Armstrong, sopran.

Det Kongelige Kapel.

Dirigent: Kurt Sanderling.

 

The Royal Danish Orchestra – the world's oldest orchestra – celebrates its 575th anniversary this month. The Golden Concerto presents a revival of one of the many great evenings in the orchestra's history: a concert from 1982 with the German conductor Kurt Sanderling and three major works from late romantic music, namely works by Wagner, R Strauss and and Mahler.

Sheila Armstrong, soprano.

The Royal Chapel.

Conductor: Kurt Sanderling.

(Odd Fellow Palace, Copenhagen, April 23, 1982).

(Odd Fellow Palæet, København, 23. april 1982).

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Total Immersion: Spotlight on Kaija Saariaho
Radio 3 in Concert

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in the beguiling and beautiful music of the contemporary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.

'All day and night, music…' The ancient Persian poetry that inspired Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map, a hybrid painting of Persian script and musical notation could serve as a motto for this BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion day. Sakari Oramo conducts the Orchestra in four orchestral works dating from 1989 to 2020 – including the UK premiere of the orchestral Saarikoski Songs, performed by their dedicatee, soprano Anu Komsi.

'It's always the inner space that interests me', says Saariaho, but when her creative imagination ignites, the human mind can accommodate the entire cosmos. From the ravishing cello concerto Notes on Light to the early landmark Du Cristal, this is music that uses every colour on the spectrum, and invents some new ones too – a spectacular conclusion to a day of total immersion in her expanding sonic universe.

Plus performances of Saariaho's chamber music by Guildhall Musicians, recorded at Milton Court Concert Hall during the Total Immersion day.

Recorded at the Barbican, London on Sunday 7th May 2023 at the BBC SO's Total Immersion day.
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Kaija Saariaho: Du Cristal
Kaija Saariaho Notes on Light#

20.20
Interval: Guildhall Musicians perform chamber works by Kaija Saariaho.

Kaija Saariaho: Changing Light
Ana Balestra (soprano)
Isabelle Harris (flute)

Kaija Saariaho: Spins and Spells
Gabriel Francis-Dehqani (cello)

20.40
Kaija Saariaho: Saarikoski Songs*, UK Premiere
Kaija Saariaho: Circle Map

Anssi Karttunen (cello)#
Anu Komsi (soprano)*
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

21:40
Guildhall Musicians perform chamber works by Kaija Saariaho.

Kaija Saariaho: Caliices
Jeff Yunzhe Wu (violin)
David Palmer (piano)