Nordic Music Days: Isabelle Faust and the RSNO
A celebration of music new and old from Scotland and Nordic countries, including Sibelius Symphony No 7 and music by Errollyn Wallen, Rune Glerup and Aileen Sweeney.
As part of Nordic Music Days festival held in Scotland for the first time in 136 years, one of the world's leading violinists Isabelle Faust joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Music Director Thomas Sondergard. The North Sea and an evening with birds are conjured in Rune Glerup鈥檚 work About Light and Lightness. Glerup says 鈥榤y violin concerto would never have been written if I had not met Isabelle Faust鈥�. After the interval, the extraordinary energy of Sibelius Symphony No 7 alongside music by Aileen Sweeney and Errollyn Wallen. Presented by Ian Skelly and recorded in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Lisa Robertson: Change is Coming
Errollyn Wallen: Northern Lights
Rune Glerup: About Light and Lightness
Bent Sorensen: Evening Land
Sibelius: Symphony No 7
Aileen Sweeney: Glisk
Isabelle Faust - violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Big Noise Govanhill
Thomas Sondergard - conductor
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Presenter: Ian Skelly
Producer: Laura Metcalfe
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Lisa Robertson
Change is Coming
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Big Noise Govanhill. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Errollyn Wallen
Northern Lights
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Rune Glerup
About Light and Lightness
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet No. 53 in D Major, Hob. III:63 "Lark"
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. -
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Bent S酶rensen
Evening Land
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 7
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Aileen Sweeney
Glisk
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in E major, Op 109
Performer: Igor Levit.- Sony.
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