Harrison Birtwistle 80th Birthday Concert
Nicolas Hodges (piano) performs at Wigmore Hall, London. Birtwistle: Variations from the Golden Mountains: Gigue Variations. Mozart: Gigue, Bolero and Variations. Debussy: Etudes.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: an 80th birthday tribute.
Pianist Nicolas Hodges celebrates Sir Harrison Birtwistle in a programme which pairs Debussy's late, sublime 脡tudes with a work especially commissioned for this Wigmore Hall concert.
Presented by Tom Service
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Debussy: 脡tudes - Book I
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Variations from the Golden Mountains (world premi猫re)
at c. 7.40pm
Interval music: Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments dedicated to the memory of Debussy and Busoni's Berceuse 茅l茅giaque.
at c. 8.05pm
Mozart arr. Busoni: Gigue, Bolero and Variations
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Gigue Machine
Debussy: 脡tudes - Book II
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Followed at approximately 9.25pm by recorded performances of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 and Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks, a work inspired by it.
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Composers' Rooms: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Sara Mohr Pietsch meets Sir Harrison Birtwistle in his Wiltshire home studio.
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle at 80
Tom Service talks to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
Music Played
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Part 1
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Claude Debussy
12 Studies for piano (nos. 1-6)
Performer: Nicolas Hodges. -
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Harrison Birtwistle
Variations from the Golden Mountain (world premiere)
Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
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Interval
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Ferruccio Busoni
Berceuse elegiaque Op.42 (Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge seiner Mutter)
Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.- CPO.
- 999-161 2.
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of wind instruments
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- Virgin Classics.
- 482-106 2.
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Part 2
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Ferruccio Busoni
An die Jugend
Performer: Nicolas Hodges. -
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Harrison Birtwistle
Gigue machine
Performer: Nicolas Hodges. -
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Claude Debussy
12 Studies for piano (nos. 7-12)
Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
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Encore
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Ludwig van Beethoven
No.3 in E flat major from 6 Bagatelles Op.126
Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
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Post concert
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg concerto no.3 in G major, BWV.1048
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for chamber orchestra in E flat major "Dumbarton Oaks"
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. -
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and fugue no.19 in E flat major
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva. -
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and fugue no.20 in C minor
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
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Broadcast
- Sun 14 Sep 2014 19:30麻豆社 Radio 3
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