The Rose Lake
Live from the Barbican, Sir Andrew Davis and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra in Tippett's evocation of a Senegalese lake. Lisa Batiashvili joins for Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 1.
Live from the Barbican, Sir Andrew Davis and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra in Tippett's evocation of a Senegalese lake. Lisa Batiashvili joins for Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1.
Presented by Martin Handley
Michael Tippett: The Rose Lake
Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1
8pm
Interval
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Suite (UK premiere), arr. Altinoglu
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
‘A song without words for orchestra’, Tippett’s final work was inspired by a lake in Senegal, flushed pink by the midday sun. The result is an ecstatic hymn to nature teeming with rhythmic energy and thick slashes of melody. Tippett specialist Sir Andrew Davis, conducts The Rose Lake alongside two other richly coloured works – the Suite from Debussy’s shadowy fairytale opera Pelléas et Mélisande, which receives its UK premiere here, and, with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist, Szymanowski’s sumptuous Violin Concerto - inspired by a poem by the Polish poet Tadeusz Miciński with the words "And now we stand by the lake in crimson blossom, in flowing tears of joy, with rapture and fear...."
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Michael Tippett
The Rose Lake
Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
Maurice Ravel
Histoires naturelles
Performer: Alain Altinoglu. Singer: Nora Gubisch.- NAIVE.
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Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No.1
Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
Claude Debussy
Suite from Pelleas and Melisande
Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
Claude Debussy
Suite bergamasque
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 7-10.
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Claude Debussy
Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Claude Debussy
Jimbo's Lullaby (Children's Corner)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 2.
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Claude Debussy
The Little Shepherd (Children's Corner)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Claude Debussy
L'isle joyeuse
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 18.
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- Wed 17 Apr 2019 19:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
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