Folk Influences
Tuesday 15 July 2008 14:15-17:00 (Radio 3)
In the run-up to the BBC Proms Folk day next month, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.
Duration:
2 hours 45 minutes
Playlist:
Butterworth: The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (selection)
Patricia Rozario (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Bridge: Two Old English songs - vers. for string orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles - arr. for chorus
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3.00pm
Smetana: Ma vlast (My country - Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Charles Abell (conductor)
Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
4.00pm
Liszt: Mesto (Heroide elegiaque - Hungarian national melodies, S242)
Eduard Kunz (piano)
Mansel Thomas: Suite of folksongs for chorus and orchestra
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
Vaughan Williams: 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (director)
