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麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Saariaho, Prokofiev

The 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra live at the Barbican. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Kaija Saariaho: True Fire (with Gerald Finley: baritone). Prokofiev: Symphony No 5.

Live from the Barbican the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Baritone Gerald Finley joins for Kaija Saariaho's True Fire.

Presented by Martin Handley

Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'
Kaija Saariaho: True Fire
麻豆社 co-commission; UK premiere

8.25: Interval

8.45: Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat major

Gerald Finley, baritone
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Sakari Oramo directs the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra in two Russian masterworks, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, and Prokofiev's Symphony No 5. Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony depicted 'the greatness of the human spirit'. It's a gripping climax to a concert that begins with Tchaikovsky's star-crossed romance, and features Kaija Saariaho's ravishing True Fire, performed by its dedicatee, Gerald Finley.
Saariaho's music combines intense emotion with a shimmering, visionary sonic beauty, and this setting of poetry by Emerson and Seamus Heaney was created with the intelligence and burnished tone of Finley's singing very much in mind. The results are both surprising, and exquisitely lovely: 'This is a profound, important work', declared the LA Times at last year's world premiere.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 15 Dec 2016 19:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Romeo and Juliet Overture

      Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

    • Kaija Saariaho

      True Fire (UK premiere)

      Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Interval

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Flute Concerto in D major RV.428, 'Il gardellino'

      Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
      • Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos: Lisa Beznosiuk/English Concert/Pinnock.
      • Archiv Produktion.
      • 10-12.

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto for vln & orch (RV.253) (Op.8`5) "La Tempesta di mare"

      Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
      • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
      • Virgin Classics.
      • 13.

  • Part 2

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Symphony No. 5 in Bb Op.100

      Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Post-concert

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Elegiac trio No 1 in G minor

      Performer: Vadim Repin. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Lang Lang.
      • Tchaikovsky / Rachmaninov - Piano Trios.
      • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
      • 1.

Credit

Performer 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Dec 2016 19:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3