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Performance on 3: Ulster Orchestra/Walker

Ulster Orchestra/Walker

09/03/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Ulster Orchestra/Walker

Garry Walker conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.

The Ulster Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker performs Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, Britten's depiction of Rimbaud's world in Les illuminations and Dvorak's Symphony No 6.

Presented by Martin Handley

The Ulster Orchestra performs a programme full of colour and vitality with the conductor Garry Walker. Charm, grace and lightness of touch inform Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, a tribute both to the great masters of the French Baroque and to his friends who died in the First World War. These dance movements are exquisitely orchestrated from his earlier piano suite.

The visionary and highly original prose poems of the French poet Rimbaud inspired an equally fantastical response from the young Britten. The hallucinatory, dreamlike quality of Rimbaud's Les illuminations challenged Britten to create sparkling textures and shifting harmonies for string orchestra, with the texts to be sung by either a tenor or soprano. In this concert the orchestra are joined by Elizabeth Watts.

Dvorak's Sixth Symphony rounds off the programme. It is a delightful work, full of light orchestral sonorities and free-flowing melodies, suffused with Bohemian folksong and dance tunes.

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin 
Britten: Les illuminations 
Dvorak: Symphony no.6 

Elizabeth Watts (soprano) 
Ulster Orchestra
conductor Garry Walker 

Followed by a focus on Baroque and Baroque-inspired organ music from the BBC Archive and European recitals:

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV543
Peter Hurford (organ) 
St Catherine's College Cambridge

Liszt: Prelude & Fugue on B A C H
Christopher Herrick (organ)
Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Hindemith: Sonata no.2
David Sanger (organ)
Bromley Parish Church

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