CBSO - Brahms, Shostakovich and the UK premiere of Simon Holt's Surcos
Ilan Volkov conducts Brahms live from Symphony Hall, Alisa Weilerstein plays Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 2, plus a new work by Simon Holt is premiered.
Schoenberg's imaginative and colourful orchestration of Brahms' First Piano Quartet is conducted by Ilan Volkov in this concert broadcast live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Schoenberg had a great love for the music of Brahms and took on the challenge of transcribing the G Minor Piano Quartet for orchestra to revive what was, he thought, an under-performed chamber work in the early 20th Century.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is joined by American cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Shostakovich's haunting Second Cello Concerto, full of the anguish and existential despair which characterise the composer's later works.
Multi-award winning British composer Simon Holt's new work, Surcos, is a CBSO co-commission and this concert marks its UK premiere. The title translates as 'furrows' and it was inspired by the poem Noviembre 1913 Antonio Machado (1875-1939), describing seeds cast into the soil before winter asserts its grip.
Tom Redmond presents this live broadcast.
Simon Holt: Surcos (CBSO co-commission, UK premiere)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2
(Alisa Weilerstein - Cello)
INTERVAL
Brahms (orch. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet in G minor
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov - Conductor.
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Music Played
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Simon Holt
Surcos
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Dmitry Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. -
Johannes Brahms
Theme and variations in D minor for piano (from Sextet No 1), Op 18b
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. -
Johannes Brahms
Quartet in G minor Op 25, orch. Schoenberg (orig. Piano Quartet No 1)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Carol J Jones
Bulawayo Railway
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Benjamin Britten
Suite for Harp (Overture and Toccata)
Performer: Osian Ellis.- Tit for tat - a celebration.
- Meridian.
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Broadcast
- Wed 13 Jun 2018 19:30成人快手 Radio 3