Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20081124 | Penny Gore presents works focusing on the musical life of Norway and Sweden, featuring ensembles from the southern Norwegian city of Stavanger, one of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2008, as well as orchestras from both Norway and Sweden, which had a significant presence at the 2008 BBC Proms. There is also a celebration of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt. Stenhammar: Tranquillo e soave (Late Summer Nights, Op 33) Magnus Svensson (piano) Schubert: Scherzo (Octet) Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Strauss: Alpine Symphony Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Grieg: Selection of songs Miah Persson (soprano) Matti Hirvonen (piano) Geirr Tveitt: Piano Concerto No 1 Havard Gimse (piano) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor) Mozart: Selection of songs Sibelius: Kullervo Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano) Jorma Hynninen (baritone) Oslo Philharmonic Chorus Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor). Penny Gore presents music centring on Norway and Sweden. With Sibelius and Geirr Tveitt. |
| 02 | 20081125 | Penny Gore presents a celebration of the musical life of Norway and Sweden, featuring Daniel Harding conducting his Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz - with noted Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman - and the premiere of a four-movement version of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Plus 90th birthday celebrations for Sweden's greatest choral conductor, Eric Ericsson, and more from the Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival, in Norway's European Capital of Culture. Schubert: Adagio (Octet) Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival Ensemble David Wikander: Spring Evening Eric Ericson Chamber Choir Swedish Radio Chorus Peter Dijkstra (conductor) Berlioz: La mort de Cleopatre Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano) Daniel Harding (conductor) Lasse Thoresen: Piano Trio No 2 (The descent of Luminous Waters) Grieg Trio Three songs from Venezuela Schola Juvenil Chorus Alberto Grau, Luimar Arismendi (directors) Bruckner: Symphony No 9 (including performing version of the Finale by Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca) Ingvar Lidholm: ... a riveder le stelle Hannah Holgersson (soprano) Penny Gore introduces the Swedish Radio SO in Berlioz and Bruckner's 9th Symphony. |
| 03 | 20081126 | Penny Gore presents a programme celebrating the musical life of Norway and Sweden, with performances by the Oslo Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and soprano Malin Bystrom. Plus the first recital for over 250 years of the music composed for the coronation of King Adolph Frederik of Sweden in 1751, by the 'father of Swedish Baroque Music', Johan Helmich Roman. Geirr Tveitt: In the mountains with strong beer; The grouse on the Folgefonna glacier; Jews-harp song; The mountain girl on skis (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor) Schubert: Minuet (Octet) Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Johan Helmich Roman: 1751 Coronation Music Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble Nils-Erik Sparf (director/baroque violin) Berwald: Sinfonie singuliere Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) Schumann: Selection of songs Malin Bystrom (soprano) Magnus Svensson (piano) Harald Saeverud: Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia dolorosa) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Mikhail Jurowski (conductor) Shostakovich: The Execution of Stepan Razin Maxim Mikhailov (bass) Oslo Philharmonic Chorus Stenhammar: Adagio Emma Vetter (soprano) Penny Gore with music by Schubert, Berwald, Schumann, Saeverud and Shostakovich. |
| 04 | 20081127 | Penny Gore presents a celebration of the musical life of Norway and Sweden, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven, and young Swedish soprano Elin Rombo singing music from France and her native land. Plus veteran Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky with the Oslo Philharmonic in a revival of a notable Norwegian orchestral work from 1916, alongside the biggest symphony written by a man the orchestra have made their speciality - Tchaikovsky. Schubert: Finale (Octet) Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Svendsen: Romeo and Juliet Stavanger Symphony Orchestra John Storgards (conductor) Beethoven: Symphony No 8 Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Hjalmar Borgstrom: The Thought Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Selection of songs Elin Rombo (soprano) Magnus Svensson (piano) Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor). Penny Gore presents music including Gustavo Dudamel with the Gothenburg SO in Beethoven. |
| 05 | 20081128 | Penny Gore presents a programme in a series celebrating the musical life of Norway and Sweden. Featuring the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra marking their city's reign as European Capital Culture with the great Symphony No 5 by Nielsen, and a staging at the Drottningholm opera festival in Sweden of Monteverdi's work telling the story of Ulysses's return to his homeland after 20 years of wandering. Stenhammar: If I Had... (Three Choral Songs) Swedish Radio Chorus Peter Dijkstra (conductor) Nielsen: Symphony No 5 John Storgards (conductor) Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Ulisse - Petteri Salomaa (tenor) Penelope - Ann Hallenberg (soprano) Telemaco - Anders J Dahlin (tenor) Minerva, Fortuna - Susanne Ryden (soprano) Melanto, Amore - Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano) Ericlea, Giunone - Miriam Treichl (soprano) Eumete, Giove - Niklas Bjorling Rygert (tenor) Eurimaco, Feacio primo - Fredrik Strid (tenor) Iro, Feacio secondo - Johan Christensson (tenor) Pisandro, l'Humana Fragilita - Martin Vanberg (tenor) Antinoo, Nettuno, Tempo - Lukas Jakobski (bass) Drottingholm Court Orchestra Mark Tatlow (conductor). Penny Gore presents the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Nielsen's 5th Symphony. |