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Radio 3 in Concert: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

John Adams' Chairman Dances, Poulenc's Two Piano Concerto and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Poulenc's delicious Concerto for Two Pianos from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the rising young conductor Dmitry Matvienko

Romeo and Juliet in Copenhagen: the Danish National Symphony Orchestra plays music from Prokofiev's great ballet score. 

Dmitry Matvienko, the winner of the prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors in 2021, leads Denmark's national orchestra in a specially-devised sequence of music from Prokofiev's ballet. Before that, the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen join the orchestra for Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, a work influenced both by the music of Mozart and Bach and by the composer's encounters with the Balinese gamelan at the 1931 Exposition and the recent premiere of Ravel's jazz-inflected Piano Concerto. And the concert opens with a modern classic from West Coast America as Madame Mao gate-crashes a presidential banquet, strips down to a cheongsam, and signals the orchestra to play. Mao steps down from his portrait on the wall, and they begin to foxtrot together.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

John Adams: The Chairman Dances - Foxtrot for Orchestra

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61

Prokofiev:  Romeo and Juliet, op. 64 - extracts 
Montagues and Capulets (from suite No. 2)	 
Tableau (from suite No. 1)	 
The child Juliet (from suite No. 2)	 
Madrigal (from suite No. 1)	 
Masked Ball (from suite No. 1)	 
Balcony Scene (from suite No. 1)	 
Death of Tybalt (from suite No. 1)	 
Romeo at Juliet’s before Parting (from suite No. 2)	 
Friar Laurence (from suite No. 2)	 
Romeo at the Grave of Juliet (from suite No. 2)	 
The Death of Juliet (from suite No. 3)	 
 
Lucas Jussen and Arthur Jussen (pianos)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Matvienko (conductor)

Recorded DR Concert House, Copenhagen 02/11/2023

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