BBC Symphony Orchestra
Part One
Friday 12 May 2006 19:30-19:55 (Radio 3)
Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the BBC Symphony Orchestra present the live UK premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Wing on Wing - written in 2004 for the opening of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The hauntingly beautiful score is filled with echoes of water and wind, and includes two coloratura sopranos and the amplified sound of the Plainfin Midshipman, a Pacific-dwelling singing fish!
It's paired with, after the interval, Shostakovich's monumental and anguished 8th Symphony, written during the Second World War.
Presented by Martin Handley from the Barbican.
