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Music from the 蜜芽传媒 NOW. Walton: Portsmouth Point. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2. Plus Prokofiev, Strauss and Mussorgsky.

Verity Sharp embarks upon a week of programmes featuring the 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales setting sail with British overtures to foreign shores. Walton perfectly sets the scene of a bustling British port and Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard takes us to Russia with love in a concert recorded on Valentine's Day. Plus an archive performance of the Orchestra performing on tour in Leningrad in 1988.

2.pm
Walton: Portsmouth Point
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.05pm
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

2.25pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18
Freddy Kempf (piano)
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.05pm
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet [sel. Sondergard]
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.55pm
Strauss: Don Juan
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

4.15pm
Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).

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Mon 23 May 2016 14:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point - overture

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from the British Isles volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • CHAN10898.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

    Recorded 14 February 2016 at St David's Hall, Cardiff

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor Op.18

    Performer: Freddy Kempf. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

    Recorded 14 February 2016 at St David's Hall, Cardiff

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo & Juliet - selection from suites nos. 1, 2 & 3

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

    Recorded 14 February 2016 at St David's Hall, Cardiff

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan Op.20

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.

    Recorded 26 May 1988 at the Bolshoi Hall, Leningrad (St Petersburg)

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the bare mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.

    Recorded 4 November 2015 at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga - symphonic poem Op.56

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Petrushka.
    • Signum Classics.
    • SIGCD195.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    No.6: Cradle song from 8 Russian folk songs Op.58

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.

    Recorded 28 October 2010 at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Credit

Performer 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales

Broadcast

  • Mon 23 May 2016 14:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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