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Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Live at the ѿý Proms: the ѿý Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Górecki's Symphony No.3. Plus violinist Joshua Bell joins for de Hartmann's Violin Concerto.

Live at the ѿý Proms: the ѿý Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Górecki's Symphony No.3. Plus violinist Joshua Bell joins for de Hartmann's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Chorales – No. 1: ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ (orch. Respighi)
Thomas de Hartmann: Violin Concerto (UK premiere)

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The musicologist Daniel Elphick talks to Martin Handley about Gorecki and why his 3rd Symphony became a cult success.

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’

Joshua Bell (violin)
Francesca Chiejina (soprano)
ѿý Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

‘Perhaps people find something they need in this piece ... something they were missing.’ Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ translates a century’s loss and pain into sound, gathering up the broken pieces – of history, prayer and poetry – and giving them a home in music that’s as much requiem as a symphony. Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born composer Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, a lament for the Nazi destruction of his homeland. The concert opens with Respighi’s warmly expansive reworking of an organ chorale prelude by J. S. Bach.

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2 hours, 29 minutes

Broadcast

  • Next Friday 19:30

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