The Lark Ascending

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Wagner and Sibelius, and with Rosanne Philippens they perform Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Jamie MacDougall

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude und Liebestod
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Ravel: Tzigane (encore)

20.26 Interval
Interview with Rosanne Philippens

Music (from CD):
Enescu: Sarabande
Rosanne Philippens (violin)

Agatha Backer Grondahl: Norwegian Folksongs and Folkdances
Sara Aimee Smiseth (piano)

20.46 Part Two
Sibelius: Symphony No.1

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)
Rosanne Philippens (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Photo: Rosanne Philippens (credit, Sarah Wijzenbeek)

21.20
After the concert tonight, in the week of International Women’s Day, a chance to hear the BBC Radio 3 commission from 2020 for the BBC Singers, titled Seven Ages of Woman. It’s an unaccompanied choral work made up of seven movements, each written by a composer representing her own decade.

Seven Ages of Woman (27')
Helena Paish (2002): Life
Electra Perivolaris (1996): Eternal waking
Samantha Fernando (1984): Have it all
Emily Hall (1978): Veins
Deirdre Gribbin (1967): Grieving elephants
Cecilia McDowall (1951): Photo 51
Rhian Samuel (1944): The Shape of trees

BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor)
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Recorded at St Peter’s Eaton Square for International Women’s Day 2020