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Radio 3 in Concert: BBC NOW perform Tansy Davies, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

BBC NOW perform Tansy Davies, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, BBC NOW perform Tansy Davies, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

Ryan Bancroft takes the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales travel to Aberystwyth to perform Tansy Davies and Tchaikovsky. Clara-Jumi Kang is the soloist in Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their principal conductor Ryan Bancroft travel to Aberystwyth to perform Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Tansy Davies.  The concert opens with Monolith, a work for percussion and strings that Davies wrote for the 2021 Aldeburgh Festival.  It takes inspiration from Claude Cahun’s photograph titled I extend my arms, which depicts disembodied arms extending from a monolithic stone.  Before the interval, violinist Clara-Jumi Kang joins Bancroft and his Orchestra for Sibelius' much loved Violin Concerto - the composer's beautiful love song to the instrument he had so dearly longed to be a virtuoso on.  The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, considered by many to be the composer's statement on fate and destiny, and one of his most popular compositions. 

Recorded on the 16th of March, and presented by Verity Sharp.

7.30pm
Tansy Davies: Monolith - I extend my arms
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47

8.25pm
Interval music (from CD)
Tansy Davies: Forgotten Game
James Turnbull (oboe)
Huw Watkins (piano)

Korngold: Suite, Op 23 (2nd mvt)
Spectrum Concerts Berlin

G Conus: 3 pieces, Op 36
Jonathan Powell (piano)

8.45pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

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