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Aldeburgh Festival: ѿý Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba conducts the ѿý Philharmonic in music by Britten, Tchaikovsky and composer-in-residence Anna Thorvaldsdottir at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival.

From the Snape Maltings
Presented by Martin Handley

From the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival, music from Britten, Tchaikovsky and featured composer at this year’s event, the Icelandic Anna Thorvaldsdottir performed by the ѿý Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba from the Snape Maltings. The programme includes Britten’s arresting symphonic journey on the theme of death and transfiguration, his Sinfonia da Requiem and Tchaikovsky intensely personal swansong, the Pathétique Symphony. Also on the Philharmonic’s programme is a major piece by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir inspired by the “natural order between beauty and chaos”. The presenter is Martin Handley.

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos

8.10pm
Interval
Martin Handley in conversation with Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Debussy: La Mer "From dawn to noon on the sea"
London Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 "Pathetique"
ѿý Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sinfonia da Requiem

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Metacosmos

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer (no.1; De l'aube a midi sur la mer)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
    • REGIS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 6 in B minor "Pathétique"

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 15 in F major, K 533/494

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet for horn and strings (K.407) in E flat major

    Performer: David Pyatt. Performer: Kenneth Sillito. Performer: Robert Smissen. Performer: Stephen Tees. Performer: Stephen Orton.
    • ERATO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.3 in A minor BWV.827(Fantasia)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Jun 2023 19:30