Folk Influences [Afternoon Concert]

Episodes

EpisodeFirst
Broadcast
Comments
0120080714In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk Day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe. With the Ulster Orchestra performing music from Ireland, Norway and central Europe plus an eclectic mix of live and specially-recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside BBC Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements.

Grieg: Lyric suite (arr. for orchestra) (Lyric pieces for piano - Book 5, Op 54)

Esa Heikkila (conductor)

Vaino Raitio: Four Dances: Tango; Danse grotesque; Humoreski; Valssi

Tuomas Ollila (conductor)

Harty: An Irish Symphony

Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Joan Trimble: Suite for strings

Gorecki: Wislo moja, Wislo szara

Jetse Bremer Komt vrieden in het ronden

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Janacek: Lachian dances

Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian folk-song (The Peacock)

David Porcelijn (conductor)

Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 100 (orch. from 15 Hungarian peasant songs for piano)

Archibald James Potter: Gaelic Fantasy No 1 for orchestra

Robert Houlihan (conductor)

Stanford: Irish rhapsody No 1 in D minor, Op 78

Vernon Handley (conductor).

Penny Gore presents music by Grieg, Raitio, Harty, Trimble, Bartok and Stanford.

0220080715In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.

Butterworth: The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (selection)

Patricia Rozario (soprano)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Bridge: Two Old English songs - vers. for string orchestra

Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles - arr. for chorus

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

3.00pm

Smetana: Ma vlast (My country) (Bohemia's Woods and Fields)

David Charles Abell (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60

Jac van Steen (conductor)

4.00pm

Liszt: Mesto (Heroide elegiaque) (Hungarian national melodies, S242)

Eduard Kunz (piano)

Mansel Thomas: Suite of folksongs for chorus and orchestra

BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus

Lesley Hatfield (director).

Penny Gore presents music by Butterworth, Canteloube, Bridge, Tippett and Smetana.

0320080716In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk day, Penny Gore presents music by composers inspired by folk songs from Finland, Poland and Hungary.

Veljo Tormis: Piispa ja pakana

BBC Singers

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Bartok: Concerto for orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Lutoslawski: Little Suite

Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

Alexander MacKenzie: Scottish Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op 55

Steven Osborne (piano)

Sibelius: Kullervo

Paivi Nisula (soprano)

Raimo Laukka (baritone)

Helsinki University Male Voice Choir

Osma Vanska (conductor).

Penny Gore with music by composers inspired by folk songs from Finland, Poland and Hungary

0420080717In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.

Wladyslaw Zelenski: Overture (In the Tatras, Op 27)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michal Dworzynki (conductor)

Bartok: Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra

Rolk Hind, Paavali Jumpaanen (pianos)

John Chimes (timpani)

David Hockings (percussion)

David Robertson (conductor)

Zygmunt Noskowksi: The Steppes - symphonic poem, Op 66

3.00pm

Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs, arr. for chorus

BBC Singers

David Hill (conductor)

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D, Op 11

Rossen Milanov (conductor)

Vitezslav Novak: Slovak Suite, Op 32

Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

4.00pm

Grieg: 4 Psalms for baritone and mixed voices, Op 74

Thorbjorn Gulbrandsoy (bass)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Stephen Jackson (conductor)

Stanislaw Moniuszko: Concert Overture (Bajka - The Fairy Tale)

Vitezslav Novak: In the Tatra Mountains - symphonic poem, Op 26

Jakub Hrusa (conductor).

Penny Gore presents music by Zelenski, Bartok, Noskowski, Vaughan Williams and Enescu.

0520080718In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by by Czech, Russian, English and Australian traditional song.

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op 72 No 10

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sinfonietta in A minor on Russian Themes, Op 31

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Cyril Scott: Early One Morning - poem for piano and orchestra

Howard Shelley (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 103 in E flat, H I 103 (Drum Roll)

Simon Wright (conductor)

Stephen Leek: Island Songs

BBC Singers

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Grainger: Green Bushes

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17 (Little Russian)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Nos 1, 2 and 8, Op 46

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Penny Gore with folk-inspired music by Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov, Haydn and Grainger.