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Radio 3 in Concert: Dvořák, Liszt, Kanai, and Takemitsu

Dvořák, Liszt, Kanai, and Takemitsu

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Dvořák, Liszt, Kanai, and Takemitsu

The BBC NOW and conductor Nodoko Okisawa explore a fascinating fusion of East and West

Nodoka Okisawa and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales explore a mix of Eastern and Western musical traditions through the music of Takemitsu, Kanai, Liszt, and Dvořák

Nodoko Okisawa makes her debut conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a programme which brings together Japan and Eastern Europe.  The first half begins with prolific Japanese film composer Tōru Takemitsu, and a suite that he made by reworking his music from three very different films.  Blues, threnody, waltz - the style of each movement shows a vastly different side to a composer that we think we know, creating a perfectly balanced concert suite.  This is followed by Okinawan composer Kikuko Kanai's Capriccio Okinawa, a work from one of the first Japanese women to compose in a Western style, and its first performance in the UK.  She transcribed traditional Okinawan melodies to use in the work, which also features the instrument at the heart of Okinawan folk music, the Sanshin.  After the interval, Iyad Sughayer joins the Orchestra for Liszt's poetic Second Piano concerto, and the concert concludes with a tone poem by Dvořák - his Wild or Wood Dove.  The music masterfully tells the story by Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, in which the dove of the title eventually drives a guilty wife to suicide.

Presented by Verity Sharp in Hoddinott Hall, recorded on the 24th of February.

Takemitsu: Three Film Scores (12')
Kanai: Capriccio Okinawa (25')
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A major, S 125 (21')
Dvořák: The Wood Dove, B 198 (19')

Iyad Sughayer (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nodoka Okisawa (conductor)

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