
Stephen Hough joins Alpesh Chauhan and the ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Also works by George Walker, Richard Strauss, and Jay Capperauld.
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Presented by Kate Molleson, live from City Halls, Glasgow
Beethoven’s economically scored Second Piano Concerto – written before his First and among the earliest of his works performed in concert halls today – looks both backwards to Haydn and Mozart and forwards to Beethoven’s future innovation and rhythmic fascination.
Tonight’s ѿý commission is from Glasgow-based composer Jay Capperauld. Expressed in the context of the recurring 24-hour process that regulates our sleeping patterns, Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) is Capperauld’s response to the cyclical nature of lockdown, enforced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continuing the theme of mass upheaval, the ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra closes with Strauss’s devastating Metamorphosen. Written for 23 solo strings during the final months of the Second World War (which Strauss described as ‘the most terrible period of mankind’), it quotes from the Funeral March of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony (No. 3).
Walker Lyric for Strings
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Jay Capperauld Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) (ѿý commission: world premiere)
Strauss Metamorphosen
ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Hough, piano
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor
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Music Played
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George Walker
Lyric for strings
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.2
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan. -
Richard Strauss
Traumerei Op.9 No.4
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. -
Jay Capperauld
Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn)
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan. -
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan. -
Jacques Offenbach
Les Larmes De Jacqueline (Harmonies des bois)
Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.- Inspiration.
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Franz Schubert
Death and the Maiden (arr. 12 Ensemble)
Music Arranger: 12 Ensemble. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble. -
Laura Marling
Howl
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- Sat 5 Sep 2020 19:30ѿý Radio 3
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