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Nordic Music Days: Isabelle Faust and the RSNO

A celebration of music new and old from Scotland and Nordic countries, including Sibelius Symphony No 7 and music by Errollyn Wallen, Rune Glerup and Aileen Sweeney.

As part of Nordic Music Days festival held in Scotland for the first time in 136 years, one of the world's leading violinists Isabelle Faust joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Music Director Thomas Sondergard. The North Sea and an evening with birds are conjured in Rune Glerup’s work About Light and Lightness. Glerup says ‘my violin concerto would never have been written if I had not met Isabelle Faust’. After the interval, the extraordinary energy of Sibelius Symphony No 7 takes place alongside a performance of Hildur Jonsdottir's Tacet: Extrinsic, a work for silent performer. Plus music by Aileen Sweeney and Errollyn Wallen.
Presented by Ian Skelly and recorded in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Lisa Robertson: Change is Coming
Errollyn Wallen: Northern Lights
Rune Glerup: About Light and Lightness
Bent Sorensen: Evening Land
Sibelius: Symphony No 7
Hildur Jónsdóttir Tacet: Extrinsic
Aileen Sweeney: Glisk

Isabelle Faust - violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Hildur Jónsdóttir - silent performer
Big Noise Govanhill
Thomas Sondergard - conductor

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Presenter: Ian Skelly
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

2 hours, 14 minutes

Music Played

  • Lisa Robertson

    Change is Coming

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: Big Noise Govanhill. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Northern Lights

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Rune Glerup

    About Light and Lightness

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet No. 53 in D Major, Hob. III:63 "Lark"

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
  • Bent Sørensen

    Evening Land

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 7

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Aileen Sweeney

    Glisk

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E major, Op 109

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Nov 2024 19:30