Of Paradise and Light

Dalia Stasevska, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and her strings bring dance rhythms, American inflexions, and Jazz notes in a programme ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary. The sparkle of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.3, and Stravinsky’s equally exhilarating reimagining of the Baroque era in Dumbarton Oaks frame two American works.

For Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto comes luxury casting with Richard Hosford the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Clarinettist as soloist. Richard’s recording of the work has consistently won BBC Radio 3’s Record Review Building a Library.
Plus Augusta Read Thomas’s Of Paradise and Light (2010), a song without voices, based on an E E Cummings poem, and a fine addition to the American school of string mediation started by Samuel Barber’s Adagio.

Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios
Presented by Ian Skelly

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048
Aaron Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Interval: Berlioz from the BBC Symphony Chorus
Berlioz: Hymne pour la consecration du nouveau Tabernacle
Berlioz: Tantum ergo
Berlioz: Veni Creator

BBC Symphony Chorus
Richard Pearce (organ)
Neil Ferris (conductor)

Part 2
Augusta Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light
Igor Stravinsky : Dumbarton Oaks

Richard Hosford (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Photo of Dalia Stasevska (c) Jarmo Katila