Folk Influences
Monday 14 July 2008 14:00-17:00 (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. With the Ulster Orchestra performing music from Ireland, Norway and central Europe plus an eclectic mix of live and specially-recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside BBC Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements.
Playlist:
Grieg: Lyric suite (arr. for orchestra, Lyric pieces for piano - Book 5, Op 54)
Ulster Orchestra
Esa Heikkila (conductor)
Vaino Raitio: Four Dances: Tango; Danse grotesque; Humoreski; Valssi
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila (conductor)
Harty: An Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
3.00pm
Joan Trimble: Suite for strings
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Gorecki: Wislo moja, Wislo szara
Jetse Bremer Komt vrieden in het ronden
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)
Janacek: Lachian dances
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)
Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian folk-song (The Peacock)
Ulster Orchestra
David Porcelijn (conductor)
4.15pm
Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 100 (orch. from 15 Hungarian peasant songs for piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Archibald James Potter: Gaelic Fantasy No 1 for orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Robert Houlihan (conductor)
Stanford: Irish rhapsody No 1 in D minor, Op 78
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
