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Afternoon on 3: Norway's Leading Orchestras

Afternoon Concert: Norway's Leading Orchestras: Episode 1

Episode 1

Norway's Leading Orchestras

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Norway's Leading Orchestras, Episode 1

Penny Gore with music by Halvorsen, Ludvig Irgens Jensen, Bartok, Rachmaninov and Tveitt.

With Penny Gore. Halvorsen: Fossegrimen. Ludvig Irgens Jensen: Passacaglia. Bartok: Violin Concerto No 1. Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2. Geir Tveitt: Suite No 4, Op 151.

Penny Gore this week introduces recent concert performances by some of Norway's leading orchestras. Today the highly regarded Oslo Philharmonic are heard in music for a 'Troll Play,' and a dignified Passacaglia, much admired by Carl Nielsen. Then the orchestra's new principal conductor guides them through the luxuriant romanticism of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

Halvorsen
Fossegrimen, op. 21, Suite of Incidental music for the play by Sigurd Eldegard
Ragnhild Hemsing (Hardanger fiddle),
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

c. 2.25pm
Ludvig Irgens Jensen
Passacaglia, for orchestra (1926)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

c. 2.45pm
Bartok
Violin Concerto no. 1 Sz. 36
Vilde Frang (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

c. 3.05pm
Rachmaninov
Symphony no. 2 in E minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)


c.4.05pm
Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) 
Suite No. 4, op. 151, from 'A Hundred Hardanger Tunes' 
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Norway's Leading Orchestras

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Penny Gore presents concert performances by some of Norway's leading orchestras

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring concert performances by some of Norway's leading orchestras

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