Episodes
Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | 20080714 | In 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. |
02 | 20080715 | In 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. |
03 | 20080716 | In 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 |
04 | 20080717 | In 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. |
05 | 20080718 | In 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. |