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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

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Radio 3 in Concert: The RSNO, Catriona Morison and Thomas Sondergard in Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov

The RSNO, Catriona Morison and Thomas Sondergard in Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, The RSNO, Catriona Morison and Thomas Sondergard in Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov

Thomas Sondergard begins his tenure with RSNO with Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov

Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov with mezzo soprano Catriona Morison, Thomas Sondergard and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Newly appointed Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Thomas Sondergard begins this evening’s concert with Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, before former Cardiff singer of the world winner and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Catriona Morison joins them to perform Ravel's exotic orchestral song cycle Sheherazade.  The concert closes with Rachmaninov’s hugely ambitious and passionate First Symphony that he believed ‘opened up entirely new paths’. It was dedicated rather enigmatically to' A.L' thought to be Anna Lodïzhenskaya, the wife of a friend and it shares the biblical quotation 'Vengeance is mine, I shall repay' which was also used to preface Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. We can only speculate as to what if anything was the relationship between the composer and this Anna.

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites No1 and No2
Movement order;
Morning Mood
The Abduction of the Bride
Arabian Dance
Peer Gynt’s Journey Home
Aase’s Death
Anitra’s Dance
Solveig’s Song
In the Hall of the Mountain King

Ravel: Shéhérazade

Interval: Sibelius En Saga Op. 9, BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Rachmaninov: Symphony No1

Catriona Morison - mezzo soprano 
Thomas Sondergard - conductor
Royal Scottish National Orchestra


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Producer - Laura Metcalfe

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