Pleasure Garden

From the Bridgewater Hall
Presented by Ian Skelly

Conductor Elena Schwarz and violinist Daniel Pioro celebrate the magic of nature as they join the BBC Philharmonic for the world premiere of "Pleasure Garden", a violin concerto by the orchestra's Composer-in-Association, Tom Coult. Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Salford University it has been written in association with the Royal Horticultural Society to celebrate the recent opening of their garden in the BBC Philharmonic's home city of Salford, RHS Bridgewater. Tom Coult takes inspiration from images of "constructed natural spaces" around cities, drawing on stories from 9th century Japan and 14th century Italy as well as a visit from Queen Victoria to the very spot in which RHS Bridgewater now flourishes. Ravel brings a Fairy Garden to life at the end of his ballet about favourite fairy-tale characters, "Mother Goose" and the programme opens with music written for a real princess; Weill's Second Symphony written while he was in France in the 1930s was commissioned by the Princesse de Polignac, Winnaretta Singer, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and a generous patron of the arts.

Weill: Symphony No 2

8.00pm Interval Music (CD)
Britten: Five Flower Songs Op 47
RIAS Kammerchor
Justin Doyle (conductor)

Tom Coult: Pleasure Garden (BBC Commission, world premiere)
Ravel: Ballet, Mother Goose

Daniel Pioro (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Elena Schwarz (conductor)