蜜芽传媒

Penny Gore presents a week of programmes reflecting on musical firsts featuring the 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales.

Today Elin Manahan Thomas presents a live Afternoon on 3 concert from 蜜芽传媒 Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. The orchestra is joined by conductor Martyn Brabbins to travel three contrasting musical landscapes.

Anthony Powers talks with Elin, looking back on his 1993 commission for the orchestra. They're joined by 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani for Poulenc's "countryside" concerto for harpsichord, inspired by the eighteenth century entertainment of the French court at Versailles.

Copland's 1940s ballet score remains one of the quintessential American works of the twentieth century, with its perfect evocation of the pioneer spirit and the wide open spaces of the great outdoors.

Anthony Powers: Terrain
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.30pm
Poulenc: Concert champetre for harpsichord (or piano) and orchestra
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Arthur Honegger: Concerto for cello and orchestra
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

3.20pm
Copland: Appalachian spring - ballet version for orchestra [1945]
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).