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Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in vibrant, mesmerising music by a Swedish maverick, with concerto soloists Carolin Widmann (violin) and Martin Fröst (clarinet).

It is easy to immerse yourself in music as seductive as that of Anders Hillborg - the Swedish maverick with a background in pop and electronics. The climax of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion is this concert, in which large-scale, spectral canvases full of detail and playfulness will mesmerize you. Whilst some of Hillborg’s works are traditional Nordic nature landscapes built on spatial breadth and filmic atmosphere, his clarinet concerto Peacock Tales is less abstract and more immediate, tailored to the theatrical and communicative flair of soloist Martin Fröst. There are two UK premieres: Carolin Widmann is the soloist in the Violin Concerto No 1, and Through Lost Landscapes is brand-new work co-commissioned by the BBC.

Presented by Natasha Riordan.

Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London, on Saturday 22nd February 2020.

Anders Hillborg:
Fanfare
Eleven Gates
Beast Sampler
Concerto for Clarinet 'Peacock Tales' Millennium Version

8.25pm
Interval - Anders Hillborg talks to Natasha Riordan about his life and music.

8.35pm
Anders Hillborg:
Violin Concerto no. 1
Through Lost Landscapes. (BBC co-commission, UK premiere)

Carolin Widmann (violin)
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 Mar 2020 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anders Hillborg

    Fanfare for Brass and Percussion

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Anders Hillborg

    Eleven Gates

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Anders Hillborg

    Beast Sampler

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • György Ligeti

    Lontano

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.

  • Anders Hillborg

    Violin Concerto No.1

    Performer: Carolin Widmann. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Anders Hillborg

    Through Lost Landscapes (UK Premiere)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • György Ligeti

    Lontano (1967)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • WARNER.

  • Morton Feldman

    Jackson Pollock (Painting on glass)

    Ensemble: ensemble recherche.
    • Something Wild: Music for Film.
    • Kairos.
    • 08.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Three Paganini Caprices

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Mar 2020 19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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