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Afternoon on 3: Northern Lights

Afternoon Concert: Northern Lights: Episode 1

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Ian Skelly

Episode 1

Northern Lights

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Northern Lights, Episode 1

Ian Skelly with music: Tveitt, Sibelius, Ingvar Lidholm, Magnus Lindberg and Stenhammar.

With Ian Skelly. Tveitt: Solgud-symfonien. Sibelius: Six Songs (excerpts). Ingvar Lidholm: A riveder le stele. Magnus Lindberg: Piano Concerto No 2. Stenhammar: Symphony No 2.

Ian Skelly begins a week of programmes to celebrate Northern Lights on Radio 3, with recent recordings of music from Norway, Finland and Sweden. Today the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra showcase Geirr Tveitt's 'Sun God' symphony conducted by Jurjen Hempel, which is followed by the premiere of Colin Matthews' arrangement of Sibelius' Six Songs, Op.72, commissioned by Finnish Radio earlier this year. The British pianist Nicholas Hodges joins forces with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste to give the Finnish premiere of Lindberg's 2nd Piano Concerto, and the Hannu Lintu conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stenhammar's lyrical 2nd Symphony redolent of Scandinavian landscapes and Norse heroism.


2pm
Geirr Tveitt
Solgud-symfonien
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jurjen Hempel (conductor)

2.25pm
Sibelius, arr. C. Matthews
Excerpts from Six Songs, Op.72 (Premiere)
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu (conductor)

2.40pm
Ingvar Lidholm (b.1921)
(Texts by Dante Alghieri)
A riveder le stele
Swedish Radio Chorus
Peter Dijkstra (director)

2.55pm
Magnus Lindberg
Piano Concerto No.2 (Finnish premiere)
Nicholas Hodges (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

3.40pm
Stenhammar
Symphony No.2
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Northern Lights

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