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Celebrating the viola

Contemporary British choral music performed by the 成人快手 Singers and memorable archive recordings from the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra, presented by Fiona Talkington.

Closing this week of programmes celebrating the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra and Singers, British composer/conductor Owain Park conducts the 成人快手 Singers in a programme of contemporary choral music. Alongside his own works is music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Rhiannon Randle and Joanna Ward, and 'Song' by former 成人快手 Singers composer in Association Gabriel Jackson.
This afternoon we shine a light on the 成人快手 SO's Co-Principal Viola Caroline Harrison who's been a member of the orchestra for 30 years. We'll hear a sequence of 成人快手 SO performances in which she performed. Firstly, at the Barbican in February 2015, Sakari Oramo and the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for their Sibelius performances, played his tone poem The Oceanides in its 1914 Yale version. This is how the work was first heard at its premiere in America on Sibelius鈥檚 one and only trip there, and it retains many interesting features that the composer removed in a later revision. Australian composer, viola player, and former 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra Artist in Association Brett Dean was inspired by Beethoven鈥檚 Heiligenstadt Testament to create a quirky work for twelve violas. The Beethoven is a letter full of despair written as the composer battled to come to terms with the onset of deafness. Brett Dean鈥檚 Testament reimagines this experience and asks some of the players to tune their strings in unusual ways and not to put resin on their bows - to create a world of half-heard sounds and eerie pen-on-parchment scratchings. Thea Musgrave鈥檚 2002 Turbulent Landscapes is her Pictures at an Exhibition. Inspired by Turner paintings including Sunrise with Sea Monsters, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, and The Exile and the Rock Limpit (Napoleon), Musgrave takes your ears from one canvas to another in vivid orchestral sounds. And finally Prokofiev鈥檚 Haydn-inspired symphony with all its classical grace is performed by the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Floodlight, starlight
Gabriel Jackson: Song (I gave upon you)
Pawe艂 艁ukaszewski: Like as the waves
Owain Park: For the fallen
Owain Park: The wings of the wind
Rhiannon Randle: On Life鈥檚 dividing sea
Joby Talbot: The wishing tree
Joanna Ward: Brambles Fewer
成人快手 Singers
Owain Park, conductor

c.2.30pm
Beat Furrer: Psalm
Dieter Schnebel: Motetus I
成人快手 Singers
James Weeks, conductor

c.2.55pm
Sibelius: The Oceanides Op. 73 (1914 Yale Version)
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

c.3.10pm
Brett Dean: Testament for 12 violas
成人快手 SO violas
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.25pm
Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscapes
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor

c.3.50pm
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

2 hours, 31 minutes

Music Played

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    Floodlight, Starlight

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    Song (I Gaze Upon You)

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    Like As The Waves

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    For The Fallen

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    The Wings Of The Wind

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    On Life's Dividing Sea

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    The Wishing Tree

  • 成人快手 Singers & Owain Park

    Brambles Fewer

  • Beat Furrer

    Gloria Tibi Domine - Psalm

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: James Weeks.
  • Dieter Schnebel

    Motetus I

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: James Weeks.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides Op. 73 'Yale Version'

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Brett Dean

    Testament for 12 Violas

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Thea Musgrave

    Turbulent Landscapes

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
  • Anders Hillborg

    Six Pieces for Wind Quintet

    Performer: Klei Quintet.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No.1 in D Op.25 'Classical'

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 May 2020 14:00