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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Stravinsky, Strauss, Beethoven

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits. Stravinsky: Octet. Strauss: Wind Serenade. Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Winds (with Frank Braley). Beethoven: Symphony No 5.

Live from the Lighthouse, Poole

The Bournemouth SO, conducted by Kirill Karabits, play Beethoven's Fifth and works by Strauss and Stravinsky.

They open with Stravinsky's playful Octet, one of his earliest neo-classical works, every page of which reveals a wry, astringent wit.
Strauss' Wind Serenade is a youthful work, whose charm, vivacity, and technical assurance of makes it a worthy successor of Mozart's Gran Partita, upon which it is clearly modelled.

The Concerto for Piano and Winds exemplifies Stravinsky's full-blooded neoclassical style. It begins with a slow processional of enormous gravity; the ensuing toccata explodes with a high trumpet blast. These polarities are retained throughout with a sonorous largo and breathless finale.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has the most famous beginning in all of classical music. It is a work of enormous accumulated energy thrusting harmonically and rhythmically through from the opening gesture to the final glorious cadences.

Stravinsky : Octet
Strauss : Wind Serenade
Stravinsky : Concerto for Piano and Winds

Interval:

Beethoven : Symphony No. 5

Frank Braley, piano
Kirill Karabits, conductor.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Bournemouth S O

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Octet

      Conductor: Kirill KARABITS Performer: Bournemouth S O

    • Richard Strauss

      Serenade in E flat major Op.7 for 13 wind instruments

      Conductor: Kirill KARABITS Performer: Bournemouth S O

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Concerto for piano, wind, timpani and double basses

      Conductor: Kirill KARABITS Performer: Frank BRALEY - Piano Performer: Bournemouth S O

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Piano-rag-music

      Performer: Frank BRALEY - Piano

  • Music Interval

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in E flat major Op.12`3 for violin and piano

    Performer: Frank BRALEY - Piano Performer: Renaud CAPUCON - Violin

    • Virgin Classics.
    • 50999 642001 0 1.
  • Bournemouth S O

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67

      Conductor: Kirill KARABITS Performer: Bournemouth S O

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Mar 2012 19:30

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