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BBC National Orchestra of Wales: LIVE from Hoddinott Hall

Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, the UK Premieres of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto and a new suite from Wagner’s opera Parsifal under the baton of its arranger, Andrew Gourlay.

In our first live afternoon concert of the season from Hoddinott Hall, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales opens with Debussy’s beautiful symphonic poem Prelude a l’Apres-midi d’un faune followed by two works that will be new to audiences: the UK premiere of Judith Weir’s Oboe Concerto, written for and dedicated to the orchestra's former Principal Cor Anglais Celia Craig, and a new suite that brings together the wealth of magnificent orchestral music from Wagner’s opera Parsifal, under the baton of its arranger, Andrew Gourlay. Plus a new recording of 'Clytemnestra' by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel whose music seeks to give women a voice, here adapting Aeschylus' work from Clytemnestra's viewpoint, and George Whitefield Chadwick's Tam O’Shanter, a work of vivid musical story-telling based on the tale by Robert Burns.

Presented by Penny Gore

Debussy: Prelude a l’apres midi-d’un faune
Weir: Oboe Concerto (UK Premiere)
Wagner, arr. Gourlay: Parsifal Suite
Celia Craig (oboe)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3.40pm
Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.4pm
Chadwick: Tam O’Shanter
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Constantine (conductor)

Photo of Judith Weir: B Ealovega

2 hours, 31 minutes

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Fri 27 Sep 2019 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 86

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Judith Weir

    Oboe Concerto

    Conductor: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Franz Schubert

    Nachtstück, D 672

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ruby Hughes.

  • Judith Weir

    Ständchen

    Performer: Susan Bickley. Performer: Iain Burnside.

  • Franz Liszt

    Es rauschen die Winde, S 294b

    Performer: Diana Damrau. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal Suite

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Rhian Samuel

    Clytemnestra

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Singer: Ruby Hughes. Conductor: Jac van Steen.

  • Anthony Hedges

    Heigham Sound (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Morceaux Op.19 (no.5, Capriccioso)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Sep 2019 14:00
    BBC Radio 3

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