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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from City Halls, Glasgow: Episode 2: BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 2)

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Episode 2

Episode 2: BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 2)

BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 2)

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles in John Adams's City Noir.

Live from City Halls in Glasgow, the conclusion of a concert featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles. They perform John Adams's City Noir.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and violinist James Ehnes bring us three masterworks from three centuries.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall

19.30
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1

20.45
Interval

21.05
John Adams; City Noir

James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles


Written in 2009, this masterpiece by John Adams was first suggested by reading the "dream" books by Kevin Starr, painting a picture of 1940s Los Angeles as possessing "a certain sassy, savvy energy. It was, among other things, a Front Page kind of town where life was lived by many on the edge, and that made for good copy and good film noir". His piece doesn't refer to the soundtracks of those films - but evokes the mood and feeling of the era. You'll hear Jazz, Symphonic and American music, jumping from high to low energy - and the city can be imagined "as a source of inexhaustible sensual experience".

Paired with Beethoven's dazzlingly bright Fourth Symphony written in 1806, and the ominous twilight of Shostakovich's tormented First Violin Concerto, started in 1947, played by the quite simply brilliant James Ehnes, this is an evening not to miss.

After the concert: Llyr Williams plays Wagner's piano music.

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Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and John Adams

A concert in which the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor Donald Runnicles and violinist James Ehnes perform masterworks from three, by Beethoven, Shostakovich and John Adams

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