Prom 25: Shostakovich's Last Symphony and a Concerto for Theremin
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: John Storgards and the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic perform music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho.
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic and John Storgards in music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho.
Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra)
8.05 Interval: Following the London premier of Kalevi Aho’s work The Eight Seasons, which is inspired by the way Finland’s native Sami people divide up the year, in the interval Tom McKinney will be joined by Kenneth Steven, a poet and nature writer who has immersed himself in the world of the Sami.
Kaija Saariaho: Vista
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.15
Carolina Eyck (theremin)
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Imagine pulling music out of thin air. Two living Finnish masters do just that today: Kaija Saariaho felt that ‘new music was flowing into my mind’ as she drove by night along the coast of California. Kalevi Aho, meanwhile, turned to the eight seasons of Lapland’s Sámi culture in his extraordinary concerto for the theremin. ‘The soloist is like a magician, a weaver of spells,’ he says – ‘producing music without touching the instrument at all.’ Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 inhabits a much darker world, but there’ll be mystery too, as well as humour, when John Storgårds conducts the enigmatic final symphony of one of the 20th century’s supreme musical chroniclers.
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Music Played
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Kalevi Aho
Eight Seasons - Concerto
Performer: Carolina Eyck. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds. -
Kaija Saariaho
Vista
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds. -
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A major
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds. -
Manuel Infante
Andalusian Dances
Ensemble: Katia Labèque.- Espagna.
- Philips.
- 12.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 5 in F sharp minor
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.- Brahms 21 Hungarian Dances - Katia & Marelle Labeque.
- Phillips.
- 5.
Broadcast
- Thu 4 Aug 2022 19:30Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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