Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at the Barbican

BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at the Barbican

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Betsy Jolas, classical symphonies and Arthur Bliss writing for Kathleen Ferrier.

Betsy Jolas, classical symphonies and Arthur Bliss writing for Kathleen Ferrier performed by the BBC SO, and a concert spanning the 15th to 21st centuries from the BBC Singers.

Among the first composers commissioned by the Ensemble InterContemporain, Betsy Jolas wrote her Onze Lieder for them in 1977, with a solo part for Pierre Thibaud who was her colleague at the Paris Conservatoire where she was taught by Olivier Messiaen. She avoided the bald title ‘concerto’ in favour of something more atmospheric, creating a sequence of instrumental songs for trumpet of contrasting character and scoring. This concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall features star soloist Hakan Hardenberger who also performs Haydn's bright & energising trumpet concerto. Two "Classical" symphonies frame these concertante works under the orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. As part of the Barbican's Sound Unbound weekend in May this year the BBC Singers recorded a concert at St Batholomew-the-Great featuring music spanning the 15th- to 21st Centuries, and the afternoon ends with the second of the Vaughan Williams Symphonies which the BBC Symphony Orchestra has recently recorded with conductor Martyn Brabbins, and a piece by which Arthur Bliss wrote for the rich, expressive contralto voice of Kathleen Ferrier and an orchestra without clarinets, bassoons, or tuba, ‘relying on the nasal tone of oboe and cor anglais, and the sardonic sound of muted brass’.
Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Prokofiev: Symphony 1 "Classical"
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Betsy Jolas: Onze Lieder - UK premiere
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 "Drumroll"
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.15pm
Claudio Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a6 
Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum    
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via    
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria 
Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands  
Robert Lucas Pearsall: Lay a garland  
Pierre Villette: Hymne à la Vierge   
John Tavener: Mother of God, here I stand 
Joseph Rheinberger: Abendlied, Op. 69, No. 3    
Charles Wood: Hail, Gladdening Light  
Sergei Rachmaninov: Tebe poem
BBC Singers
Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

c.4pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.4.35pm
Arthur Bliss: The Enchantress 
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)	
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

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