Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait

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Elizabeth Alker features specially recorded concert performances from home and abroad to reflect 250 years of American Independence including Aaron Copland's stirring Lincoln Portrait crafted on the words of Abraham Lincoln and recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow last month; the narrator is the award winning actor Rory Kinnear. Also in today's programme, religious music by Handel from the recent Rhine Vocal Festival and cellist Alban Gerhardt performs American composer Joan Tower's reflective and moving 'A New Day' for cello and orchestra, inspired by the final years of a loving marriage. Samuel Barber Knoxville - Summer of 1915 Sophia Burgos (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Lee Reynolds (conductor) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299/297c Adriana Ferreira (flute) Silvia Podrecca (harp) Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Ottavio Dantone (conductor) Aaron Copland Lincoln Portrait Rory Kinnear (narrator) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Christian Reif (conductor) Johannes Brahms Viola Sonata No. 2 in Eb major, Op. 120 Maxim Rysanov (viola) Dasol Kim (piano) William Grant Still Mother and Child Bern Symphony Orchestra Michael Sanderling (conductor) Georg Frideric Handel Chandos Anthem No. 4, ‘O Sing Unto The Lord’, HWV 249 Elena Harsanyi (soprano) Florian Sievers (tenor) Wolfgang Klose (tenor) Thomas Bonni (bass Kölner Akademie Michael Alexander Willens (director) Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G major, ‘Surprise’ Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Gottfried von der Goltz (direction) Joan Tower A New Day for cello and orchestra Alban Gerhardt (cello) Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Patrick Hahn (conductor) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live'.