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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from St Magnus Cathedral

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from St Magnus Cathedral: Episode 1: BBC SSO - Ives, Ravel, Shostakovich (part 1)

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Episode 1: BBC SSO - Ives, Ravel, Shostakovich (part 1)

Live from St Magnus Cathedral

BBC SSO - Ives, Ravel, Shostakovich (part 1)

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The BBC SSO under Thomas Dausgaard in music by Ives and Ravel.

Live from St Magnus Cathedral, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Ives: The Unanswered Question. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Live from St Magnus Cathedral as part of the St Magnus International Festival, Orkney. Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.

Presented by Jamie MacDougall

19.30
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin

20.00
Interval

20.20
Shostakovich - Symphony No 14

Joan Rodgers
Sergei Leiferkus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

Completing its residency at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, one of the world's most renowned conductors, directs the BBC SSO in what promises to be an intense and moving event. Ives' iconic and atmospheric work displaces the musicians around the cathedral to pose the "ultimate question of existence" whilst Ravel's dazzling orchestration of his earlier piano work conjures up memories of friends lost in battle in WWI. After the interval in this very apt setting, we hear Shostakovich's powerful, dark and haunting reflections on the subject of death. Soprano Joan Rodgers and Baritone Sergei Leiferkus bring the poetry to life in the music.

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Ives, Ravel and Shostakovich

Jamie MacDougall presents a performance given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard at the St Magnus International Festival, Orkney. With music by Ives, Ravel and Shostakovich

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