Tom Redmond introduces a special 麻豆社 Prom from Hull with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour.
Live at 麻豆社 Proms: Tom Redmond introduces a special 麻豆社 Prom from Hull with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour.
Live from TheDock, Hull
Presented by Tom Redmond
Telemann: Water Music - overture
Delius: Summer Night on the River
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 3 in G major
Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER (麻豆社 commission: first concert performance)
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Rameau: Na茂s - overture
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches - High Wind; Calm Sea in Summer
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 2 in D major
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
The 麻豆社 Proms travels out of London, to Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - for a site-specific performance of music inspired by water, centering on Handel's Water Music suites, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for George I on the Thames.
Pioneering early music expert Nicholas McGegan directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Stage@TheDock - Hull's outdoor amphitheatre - in a programme featuring everything from storms and shipwrecks to calm seas and seductive sirens.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Water Music - overture
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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George Frideric Handel
Water Music - Suite No 3 in G major
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Grace-Evangeline Mason
RIVER
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Felix Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Na茂s - overture
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Grace Williams
Sea Sketches - High Wind
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Grace Williams
Sea Sketches - Calm Sea in Summer
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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George Frideric Handel
Water Music - Suite No 2 in D Major
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
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Iain Farrington
A ship shape shin-dig
Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. -
Post-concert
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in C minor K.475
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.Recorded 28 November 2014 at 麻豆社 Maida Vale Studio 1
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sonata in A minor Wq.57`2 for keyboard
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
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Broadcast
- Sat 22 Jul 2017 15:00麻豆社 Radio 3
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