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Last Friday's concert from the NCH, Dublin (Fri 8th of April 2022)
National Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor
Clara Jumi-Kang, violin
Presented by Paul Herriott from RTÉ lyric fm
Galina Ustvolskaya Suite for Orchestra
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Schumann Symphony no. 2
Read the programme here: here
The sensational young Korean violinist Clara Jumi-Kang makes her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra as conductor Anja Bihlmaier returns for thrilling displays of light and shade by Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Mendelssohn’s last, large-scale work for orchestra, the E minor Violin Concerto, was also one of his greatest creations: a heart-on-sleeve masterpiece that treats solo instrument and orchestra as equals to produce one of the 19th century’s greatest concertos.
Shot through with Mendelssohn’s signature lyrical lightness of touch, its sweet song-like directness has an operatic intensity about it, the fleet, quicksilver finale a dazzlingly choreographed duet between violin and orchestra.
Begun in 1845, the year Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto was first performed, the premiere of Schumann’s Second Symphony was conducted by Mendelssohn in 1846. Composed in the aftermath of Schumann’s year-long nervous breakdown, it is cut from a very different cloth.
A journey into the interior, it is a work of remarkable and affecting honesty, private despair giving way to new-found courage and determination in a closing statement of immense power.
A one-time pupil of Shostakovich and a cult figure in her native Russia before her belated discovery in the West in the 1990s, Galina Ustvolskaya’s distinctive voice earned her the nickname “the lady with the hammer”. Her 1959 Suite for Orchestra is a work of startling energy and animation, cartoon-like in places, grotesque in others, driven along by a muscular rhythmic verve and laced with the gentlest of melodies.
Intro starts at 2 min & 50 sec and the second half at 1 hour 19 min
National Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor
Clara Jumi-Kang, violin
Presented by Paul Herriott from RTÉ lyric fm
Galina Ustvolskaya Suite for Orchestra
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Schumann Symphony no. 2
Read the programme here: here
The sensational young Korean violinist Clara Jumi-Kang makes her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra as conductor Anja Bihlmaier returns for thrilling displays of light and shade by Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Mendelssohn’s last, large-scale work for orchestra, the E minor Violin Concerto, was also one of his greatest creations: a heart-on-sleeve masterpiece that treats solo instrument and orchestra as equals to produce one of the 19th century’s greatest concertos.
Shot through with Mendelssohn’s signature lyrical lightness of touch, its sweet song-like directness has an operatic intensity about it, the fleet, quicksilver finale a dazzlingly choreographed duet between violin and orchestra.
Begun in 1845, the year Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto was first performed, the premiere of Schumann’s Second Symphony was conducted by Mendelssohn in 1846. Composed in the aftermath of Schumann’s year-long nervous breakdown, it is cut from a very different cloth.
A journey into the interior, it is a work of remarkable and affecting honesty, private despair giving way to new-found courage and determination in a closing statement of immense power.
A one-time pupil of Shostakovich and a cult figure in her native Russia before her belated discovery in the West in the 1990s, Galina Ustvolskaya’s distinctive voice earned her the nickname “the lady with the hammer”. Her 1959 Suite for Orchestra is a work of startling energy and animation, cartoon-like in places, grotesque in others, driven along by a muscular rhythmic verve and laced with the gentlest of melodies.
Intro starts at 2 min & 50 sec and the second half at 1 hour 19 min
Luis Mad
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Bruce Liu
Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Bruce Liu made his UK debut in this performance, recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 10 March 2022. 00:00 Title 00:38 I. Allegro brillante e molto vivace 21:47 II. Andante non troppo 36:54 III. Allegro con fuoco 46:12 Encore: TCHAIKOVSKY Dance of the Four Swans (trans. Wild)
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Sting - Russians (Guitar / Cello Version)
2CELLOS - LIVE at Sydney Opera House [FULL CONCERT]
2CELLOS - LIVE at Sydney Opera House [FULL CONCERT]
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Strauss Till Eulenspiegel // London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth
François-Xavier Roth conducts Strauss' tone poem Till Eulenspiegel, recorded live in concert at the Barbican in London on 3 April 2022. 0:00 Introduction by Clare Duckworth 1:20 Introduction by François-Xavier Roth 2:55 Strauss Till Eulenspiegel François-Xavier Roth: conductor London Symphony Orchestra
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Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears · The Irish Tenors
This song is about an Irish girl who emigrated from the island of Ireland during hard times and landing on Ellis Island in New York
This song is about an Irish girl who emigrated from the island of Ireland during hard times and landing on Ellis Island in New York
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ∙ Piano Concerto num 22 Es-Dur KV 482 - Allegro - Andante - Allegro Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Pietari Inkinen, Dirigent Antti Siirala, Klavier
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Katie Melua - I Will Be There - Full Concert Version
Orchestra: Docklands Sinfonia (London)
Conductor: Mike Batt
Words/Music/Arr: Mike Batt & Produced by Mike and Luke Batt
Katie Melua - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room Month 2022
Katie Melua performs live from Maida Vale with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Presented by Ken Bruce as part of the Radio 2 Piano Room Month.
1) The Closest Thing To Crazy (one of her classic tracks)
2) Joy (her current single)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (a cover of the George Harrison classic)
Orchestra: Docklands Sinfonia (London)
Conductor: Mike Batt
Words/Music/Arr: Mike Batt & Produced by Mike and Luke Batt
Katie Melua - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room Month 2022
Katie Melua performs live from Maida Vale with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Presented by Ken Bruce as part of the Radio 2 Piano Room Month.
1) The Closest Thing To Crazy (one of her classic tracks)
2) Joy (her current single)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (a cover of the George Harrison classic)
Luis Mad
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Tonight a wonderful concert in Madrid. Philharmonia orquestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
The first part was Beethoven violin concerto performed by Nicola Benedetti. She is just amazing. On top she looked stunning in red dungarees! Her performance was spectacular. She performed her own cadenza in a part of the first movement, it was a duet with the drums. Really nice and unusual. She then played as encore a Scottish song, beautiful. In one part she made the violin sound like bagpipes!
Second part was a wonderful performance of Tchaikovski 5 symphony. Spectacular and really well played.
here a bit of Nicola Benedetti with Scottish folk musicians
The first part was Beethoven violin concerto performed by Nicola Benedetti. She is just amazing. On top she looked stunning in red dungarees! Her performance was spectacular. She performed her own cadenza in a part of the first movement, it was a duet with the drums. Really nice and unusual. She then played as encore a Scottish song, beautiful. In one part she made the violin sound like bagpipes!
Second part was a wonderful performance of Tchaikovski 5 symphony. Spectacular and really well played.
here a bit of Nicola Benedetti with Scottish folk musicians
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BRSO Masterclass: Khatia Buniatishvili / Rachmaninow Piano Concerto No.2
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Last Friday's concert from the NCH, Dublin (Good Friday - 15 April 2022)
National Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas McGegan as conductor
With soloists including Máire Flavin, soprano James Oxley, tenor Stephan Loges, bass-baritone National Symphony Chorus (David Young, chorus director). Presented by Paul Herriott, RTÉ lyric fm
Composed for, and first heard in, Dublin 280 years ago, (13 April 1742) and received its London premiere nearly a year later.
Handel’s Messiah is an exultant, overpowering masterpiece ablaze with beautiful solo arias and monumental choruses without compare.
Though now a fixture of the Christmas repertoire, it was originally intended for performance at Easter and was first heard on the Good Friday of 1742. Drawing on the Old and New Testaments, its three parts separately relate the story of Christ’s birth, death and resurrection
Hailed as ‘one of the finest Baroque conductors of his generation’ (The Independent), Nicholas McGegan leads the National Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Chorus in a Good Friday offering not to be missed.
The stellar line-up of soloists includes the ‘emotionally powerful’ (Financial Times) soprano Máire Flavin, Avery Amoreau, the “extraordinary American alto on the rise.” (NY Times), the ‘extraordinary tenor with a sonorous voice’ (Musicologie) James Oxley, and Wigmore Hall International Song Contest-winner, bass-baritone Stephan Loges.
With a libretto drawn from Old and New Testament texts, Messiah is a work of intense but celebratory spiritual devotion, carried along by the richest of scores and some of the most moving and memorable passages to be handed down from the 18th century.
A dazzling array of richly orchestrated choral writing and solo vocal passages backed by insistent percussion and blazing trumpets, Messiah is a transcendental experience that conjures the majesty of Heaven with unsurpassed brilliance. Its showpiece moment, the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus that concludes the work’s second part, is instantly familiar.
A stirring display of faith at its most ecstatic, after the slow-burning embers of what has come before, it is the spark that ignites Messiah, as joyful as it is reverential, into triumphant, unforgettable life.
Intro starts at 7 min 15 sec
National Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas McGegan as conductor
With soloists including Máire Flavin, soprano James Oxley, tenor Stephan Loges, bass-baritone National Symphony Chorus (David Young, chorus director). Presented by Paul Herriott, RTÉ lyric fm
Composed for, and first heard in, Dublin 280 years ago, (13 April 1742) and received its London premiere nearly a year later.
Handel’s Messiah is an exultant, overpowering masterpiece ablaze with beautiful solo arias and monumental choruses without compare.
Though now a fixture of the Christmas repertoire, it was originally intended for performance at Easter and was first heard on the Good Friday of 1742. Drawing on the Old and New Testaments, its three parts separately relate the story of Christ’s birth, death and resurrection
Hailed as ‘one of the finest Baroque conductors of his generation’ (The Independent), Nicholas McGegan leads the National Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Chorus in a Good Friday offering not to be missed.
The stellar line-up of soloists includes the ‘emotionally powerful’ (Financial Times) soprano Máire Flavin, Avery Amoreau, the “extraordinary American alto on the rise.” (NY Times), the ‘extraordinary tenor with a sonorous voice’ (Musicologie) James Oxley, and Wigmore Hall International Song Contest-winner, bass-baritone Stephan Loges.
With a libretto drawn from Old and New Testament texts, Messiah is a work of intense but celebratory spiritual devotion, carried along by the richest of scores and some of the most moving and memorable passages to be handed down from the 18th century.
A dazzling array of richly orchestrated choral writing and solo vocal passages backed by insistent percussion and blazing trumpets, Messiah is a transcendental experience that conjures the majesty of Heaven with unsurpassed brilliance. Its showpiece moment, the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus that concludes the work’s second part, is instantly familiar.
A stirring display of faith at its most ecstatic, after the slow-burning embers of what has come before, it is the spark that ignites Messiah, as joyful as it is reverential, into triumphant, unforgettable life.
Intro starts at 7 min 15 sec
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Maria João Pires - MOZART piano concerto # 9 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
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