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Â鶹Éç Philharmonic - Dvorak, Ades, Britten, Brahms

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Â鶹Éç Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena. Dvorak: Carnival Overture. Ades: America - A Prophecy. Britten: Violin Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 3.

The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic, with conductor Juanjo Mena in music by Thomas ´¡»åè²õ, Dvorak, Brahms and Britten. They are joined by violinist James Ehnes and mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Ian Skelly

Dvorak: Overture, Carnival
Thomas ´¡»åè²õ: America - a prophecy
Britten: Violin Concerto

8.30 Interval
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses the way collaboration works with poet Sean O'Brien and composer Agustín Fernández, looking at their new song-cycle, Notes from Underground, which was inspired by WH Auden's love of the lead-mining landscape of the North Pennines.
Recorded in front of a Free Thinking Festival audience at Sage Gateshead last month.

8.50
Brahms: Symphony No 3

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
James Ehnes (violin)
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena

Dvorak gave the premiere of his arresting Carnival Overture in his farewell concert in Prague in the days before he moved to America. Britten's Violin Concerto, completed and and premiered in New York during the Second World War follows Thomas ´¡»åè²õ's apocalyptic 'America - a prophecy', commissoned by the New York Philharmonic for pieces to mark the millennium. To end the concert we return to the peace of Bohemia with Brahms's Third Symphony.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 19:30
Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • ´¡»åè²õ

    America - a prophecy

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Suite for piano (Op.45), [complete]

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

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Performer Â鶹Éç Philharmonic

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Dec 2015 19:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 3