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Holst's The Planets from Sweden

Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Holst's The Planets and the rising young soprano Johanna Wallroth sings Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs.

Daniel Harding, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor, brings Holst's stunning and evocative work to the Berwald Hall in Stockholm. It's a work which continues to inspire an abundance of film music, not least John Williams鈥檚 soundtrack to the Star Wars films. But from its first performance a few months before Armistice Day in 1918, The Planet's has made quite an impression; as the composer's daughter, Imogen wrote: 鈥淓ven those who have studied the score were shocked by the raucous sound of Mars. The maids began to dance to Jupiter. The audience felt old age creeping under Uranus. And at the unforgettable end of Neptune, the secret women's choir blurred the line between sound and silence.鈥� And, before The Planets, Alban Berg鈥檚 poignant song cycle Seven Early Songs are sung by Johanna Wallroth, a current Radio 3 New Generation Artist and Swedish Radio's Classical Artist of the Year.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Johanna Wallroth (soprano)

Holst: Suite The Planets
Women of the Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Mon 15 Jan 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • Alban Berg

    Seven Early Songs (Sieben fruhe Lieder)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding. Singer: Johanna Wallroth.

  • Alban Berg

    Piano Sonata, Op. 1

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Igor Levit - Fantasia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding. Choir: Women of the Swedish Radio Choir.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 92

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Edgar Moreau.
    • ERATO.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 'Fifths'

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Jan 2024 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 3