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Scotland Week - The RSNO

A celebration of works by Polish composers from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra opens its celebration of music by Polish composers with a medley of folk tunes by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a close friend of Shostakovich. He wrote this Rhapsody in 1949 whilst living in Russia after fleeing Poland and the Nazi invasion, and as was encouraged by the Soviet Communist Party it includes Jewish klezmer dance tunes and Moldavian folk songs from his family heritage. International soloist Nicola Benedetti joins the orchestra for Szymanowski鈥檚 first violin concerto; the piece that won her the title of 麻豆社 Young Musician in 2004. After the interval Andrzej Panufnik鈥檚 third Symphony expresses his religious and patriotic feelings, based on the Bogurodzica, a medieval Polish hymn that translates as 鈥榮he who gave birth to God鈥�.
Recorded earlier in the spring at the RSNO Centre in Glasgow

Weinberg: Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 Op.35

Approx 8.10pm
Interval

Approx 8.30pm
Andrzej Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No3) 1963

Thomas Sondergard - Conductor
Nicola Benedetti - Violin

Presenter - Kate Molleson

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 May 2021 19:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Mieczys艂aw Weinberg

    Rhapsody on Molavian themes

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Violin Concerto No.1 Op.35

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

  • Savourna Stevenson

    Misterstourworm And The Kelpie's Gift

    Author: Stuart Patterson. Narrator: Billy Boyd. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Scottish Opera. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • Misterstourworm And The Kelpie's Gift.
    • Circular records.

  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No 3)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.

  • Mieczys艂aw Weinberg

    Clarinet Sonata Op 28

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Lucas Blondeel.
    • Weinberg: Clarinet Sonata.
    • Genuin.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 21

    Performer: Rados艂aw Sobczak.
    • Szymanowski: Piano Music.
    • DUX Records.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Chopin: Etudes, Ballades etc.: Donohoe.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 May 2021 19:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3