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Scotland Inspires

The 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alpesh Chauhan, evokes Scotland in music by Mendelssohn, Sally Beamish and Maxwell Davies - his Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.

Three composers reveal the power of Scotland's history, landscape,and folklore over them. Sally Beamish's Viola Concerto No 3 'Under the Wing of the Rock', with 成人快手 New Generation artist Timothy Ridout as soloist, tells in sound the story of an extraordinary act of human kindness at the time of the Glencoe Massacre. For Mendelssohn a masterpiece of a symphony was seeded by a visit to Holyrood Palace Edinburgh where he witnessed light shining into the ruins of the chapel where Mary Queen of Scots was crowned. And to start this Caledonian immersion 'a picture postcard record of a wedding in Hoy' is Peter Maxwell Davies's description of an Orkney Wedding with Sunrise - an eventful evocation of Scottish sleet, of dancing, of fine weather on a hopeful new day.

Recorded at the Barbican on 25th April 2021
Presented by Martin Handley

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A "Scottish"

Interval: Music by Geraldine Mucha

Mucha: Epitaph in Memory of Ji艡i Mucha
Vil茅m Veverka (oboe), Jan Machat (flute)
Stamic Quartet

Mucha: Variations on an Old Scottish Song
Patricia Goodson (piano)

Part 2

Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Sally Beamish: Viola Concerto No 3 "Under the Wing of the Rock"*

Timothy Ridout (viola)*
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 4 May 2021 19:30

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in a Minor 'Scottish' Op.56

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.
  • Geraldine Mucha

    Epitaph in Memory of Jiri Mucha

    Performer: Vilem Veverka. Performer: Jan Marchant. Ensemble: Stamicovo kvarteto.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Geraldine Mucha

    Variations on an Old Scottish Song

    Performer: Patricia Goodson.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • Sally Beamish

    Viola Concerto No 3 'Under the Wing of the Rock'

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.
  • James McMillan

    Miserere for chorus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Steve Reich

    Piano Phase

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Music Arranger: Mahan Esfahani.
    • ARCHIV.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 May 2021 19:30