Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony

Available for 25 days

On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, music to mark the American civil rights leader by Duke Ellington, plus choral music by Leonard Bernstein and the first symphony by a female American composer. Elizabeth Alker includes music to mark 250 years of American Independence in exclusive recordings from home and abroad. Duke Ellington Three Black Kings Matthias Ambrosius (saxophone) Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Patrick Hahn (conductor) Cesar Franck (arr. Jules Delsart) Sonata in A major Alban Gerhardt (cello) Alexei Volodin (piano) Amy Beach Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 ‘Gaelic’ German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Marie Jacquot (conductor) Robert Schumann Märchenbilder, Op. 113 Maxim Rysanov (viola) Dasol Kim (piano) Richard Wagner Tannhauser - Overture Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding (conductor) Harold Arlen Blues in the Night Julian Bliss and Friends Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms National Youth Choir BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say, 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live'.