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Elena Urioste plays The Lark Ascending

Violinist Elena Urioste joins Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra in Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. Plus Ravel's Introduction and Allegro and Mendelssohn's Octet.

Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra and violinist Elena Urioste give the first concert of Kings Place's year-long London Unwrapped series celebrating London as musical melting pot.

In 1909, Maurice Ravel's first visit to London came at the invitation of his former pupil Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet had received its first London performance at the 1907 Proms. Vaughan William's idyllic pastoral The Lark Ascending, written in London and premiered at London's Queen's Hall a century ago, is performed here in an ingenious new arrangement for chamber ensemble made specially for tonight's concert by Iain Farrington.

Felix Mendelssohn's and the British public's mutual love affair began in 1829 with his first visit to London where the prodigiously gifted 20-year-old became an important and influential part of the city's concert life. He chose to introduce himself to London with the Scherzo from his peerless Octet, miraculous product of his mid-teens.

Also on the bill, two miniatures by living British composers: Anna Meredith鈥檚 angular string quartet Music for Ravens and Thea Musgrave鈥檚 optimistically-titled Light at the End of the Tunnel for solo viola, written at the height of the 2020 pandemic.

Recorded last month and introduced by Tom Service.

Thea Musgrave: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Anna Meredith: Music for Ravens
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Mendelssohn:Octet in E-flat, Op. 20

Elena Urioste (violin)
Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Tue 9 Mar 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Thea Musgrave

    Light at the End of the Tunnel

    Performer: Ruth Gibson.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.

  • Anna Meredith

    Music for Ravens

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat, Op. 20

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Oratorio based on stories from the Bible

    Singer: Ulrike Sonntag. Singer: Helene Schneiderman. Singer: Robert W枚rle. Singer: Wolfgang Sch枚ne. Choir: Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart. Orchestra: Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Conductor: Helmut Wolf.
    • Fanny Hensel - Oratorium/Oratorio.
    • CARUS.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

    Performer: Barry Douglas. Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3.
    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Tue 9 Mar 2021 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 3