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The Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall

The Nash Ensemble and Renata Pokupic (mezzo-soprano) in concert at Wigmore Hall in London. Janacek: Mladi. Smetana: Rybar. Dvorak: Pisne milostne; Piano Quintet No 2 in A.

The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall's Resident Chamber Ensemble, perform music from their series 'Vienna and its Empire'

Introduced by Ian Skelly.

Leoš Janáček: Mládí (Youth) - suite for wind sextet
Smetana: Rybár (The fisher boy) B.138 for reciter, accordion, harp and strings
Dvořák: Pisne milostne (Love songs) Op.83 (arranged David Matthews for voice & strings)

8.20 pm Interval: Music from the recent recording of 'Les Mysteres d'Isis' with Renata Pokupic and Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Diego Fasolis. This was a freely-adapted version for the Paris Opera of Mozart's The Magic Flute, dating from 1801.

8.40 pm Part Two

Dvořák: Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 for piano and strings

Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano)
Nash Ensemble

Music from the Czech lands, which were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, are performed by the Nash Ensemble with Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić. Janáček's wind sextet 'Mládí' looks back to his youth as a choirboy; Rybár (The fisher boy) by Smetana was composed as a 'tableau vivant' in 1869, a recitation of Goethe's poem 'Der Fischer', originally with a dramatic backdrop; Dvořák composed his Love Songs in 1888, a revised version of his youthful song cycle 'Cypresses'; and his Piano Quintet No.2 was inspired by Czech folk music.

2 hours, 25 minutes

Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Leos Janáček

      Mladi [Youth] - Suite for Wind Sextet

      Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Bedrich Smetana

      Rybar [the Fisher Boy] B.138

      Singer: Renata Pokupić. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Antonín Dvořák

      8 Pisne Milostne [Love Songs] Op.83

      Music Arranger: David Matthews. Singer: Renata Pokupić. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
  • Interval

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Les Mystères d’Isis

      Singer: Renata Pokupić. Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
      • Mozart: Les Mystères d’Isis, Paris, 1801.
      • Glossa.
      • GCD921630.
  • Part 2

    • Antonín Dvořák

      Piano Quintet No. 2 In A Major Op.81

      Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
  • Post-concert

    • Franz Schreker

      Vorspiel zu einem Drama

      Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: James Conlon.
      • EMI.
    • Gustav Mahler

      5 Ruckert-Lieder, no.4; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

      Singer: Christa Ludwig. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.
    • Max Reger

      Fugue (from Variationen und Fugue ueber ein Thema von Beethoven, Op. 86)

      Performer: Andreas Grau. Performer: Goetz Schumacher.
      • COL LEGNO.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Jan 2017 19:30