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Figaro Gets a Divorce

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gergely Madaras perform music by Shostakovich and Dohnányi, plus a new suite from Elena Langer's opera Figaro Gets a Divorce.

Conductor Gergely Madaras is a passionate advocate for the music of fellow Hungarian Ernst von Dohnányi. Tonight with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra he performs Dohnányi's youthfully romantic First Symphony. Before that they are joined by violinist Karen Gomyo to perform Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. Written in a post-war era of serious censorship the work is a virtuosic achievement of brooding dark and terrifying drama.
And the concert opens with recent music by Russian-born composer Elena Langer. She has refashioned music from her opera Figaro Gets a Divorce as a characterful orchestral suite to open tonight's concert.

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, on Thursday 13th February 2020.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Langer: Figaro Gets a Divorce Suite
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no 1

8.30 Interval

8.50 Part 2
Dohnányi: Symphony no 1

Gergely Madaras (conductor)
Karen Gomyo (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Mon 24 Feb 2020 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Elena Langer

    Figaro gets a Divorce: Suite

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Violin Concerto No.1

    Performer: Karen Gomyo. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Elena Langer

    Landscape With Three People: II. First Love Scene

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Singer: Anna Dennis. Singer: William Towers.

  • Elena Langer

    Snow

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Four Rhapsodies Op 11: No 3 Vivace

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Symphony No.1

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Diabelli Variations, Op 120 (Variation 1)

    Performer: Georges Solchany.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Feb 2020 19:30
    BBC Radio 3