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Elgar's Second Symphony

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Elgar's Second Symphony in E flat. Plus, music by Wagner, Coleridge-Taylor and Debussy.

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Elgar's Second Symphony in E flat.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The last of Elgar's two completed symphonies forms the centrepiece of this afternoon's programme, with Wagner from Budapest and, in continuing celebration of Black History Month, works by Coleridge-Taylor and George Walker

2.00pm
Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries, from act 3 of 'Die Walkure'
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Adam Fischer, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Valse-Suite
Monica Gayford, piano

Debussy
Prelude a l鈥檃pres-midi d鈥檜n faune
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod, from 'Tristan and Isolde'
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Adam Fischer, conductor

3.00pm
Elgar
Symphony no.2
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

George Walker
Three Lyrics
麻豆社 Singers
Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano
Grace Rossiter, conductor

Ethel Smyth
String Quartet: 3) Andante
Archaeus Quartet

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Oct 2023 14:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Ride of the Valkyries from Act 3 of 'Die Walkure'

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Valse Suite, Op.71

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 23.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No.2

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune_麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra 2

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • GB麻豆社.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces, Op.73

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan and Isolde'

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.

  • Franz Liszt

    Grandes Etudes de Paganini (no.4)

    Performer: C茅cile Ousset.
    • Lizst: Piano Sonata / Paganini Studies.
    • EMI.
    • 005.

  • George Walker

    Three Lyrics for Chorus: i. O Western Wind

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • George Walker

    Three Lyrics for Chorus: ii. The Bereaved Maid

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • George Walker

    Three Lyrics for Chorus: iii. Take, o take those lips away

    Performer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Ethel Smyth

    String Quartet in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet.
    • Lorelt.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schumann: Symphonies 1-4: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Oct 2023 14:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3