
Part 3
With Penny Gore. Bernstein: On the Town (excerpts). Sessions: Suite (The Black Maskers). Beach: Gavotte Fantastique. Plus Virgil Thomson, Charles Martin Loeffler and Copland.
This week's celebration of American music continues with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic performing the Overture and Dance Episodes from Leonard Bernstein's musical On The Town. There's more theatre music by Roger Sessions, a noted teacher whose pupils include composers as different as John Adams and Milton Babbitt, plus the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers performing Virgil Thomson, and a piano piece by Amy Beach. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra contribute a brand-new recording of music by Charles Martin Loeffler, and the afternoon ends with Aaron Copland's serial composition, Inscape.
Presented by Penny Gore.
2pm
Bernstein: On the Town - Overture and Three Dance Episodes
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic,
H K Gruber (conductor).
Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers - Suite
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra,
David Robertson (conductor).
Amy Beach: Gavotte Fantastique, Op 54 No 2
Richard Uttley (piano).
2.40pm
Virgil Thomson: 4 Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).
Charles Martin Loeffler: Divertimento Espagnole
Amy Dickson (saxophone),
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra,
Johannes Wildner (conductor).
3pm
Copland: Inscape
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra,
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).
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Music Played
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Leonard Bernstein
On the town - Overture and Three Dance Episodes
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: H K Gruber. -
Roger Sessions
The Black Maskers - Suite
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. -
Amy Beach
Gavotte Fantastique
Performer: Richard Uttley. -
Virgil Thomson
Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion
Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. -
Charles Martin Loeffler
Divertimento Espagnole for saxophone and orchestra
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Wildner. Performer: Amy Dickson. -
Samuel Barber
Andromache's farewell Op.39 for soprano and orchestra
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. -
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: A Woman is a Sometime Thing Bess,You Is My Woman Now
Performer: Matthew Trusler. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
Broadcast
- Wed 20 Nov 2013 14:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3