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Janacek's Taras Bulba

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, the London Philharmonic Orchestra in music ranging from Janacek's Taras Bulba to Lutoslawski's Fourth Symphony plus a violin concerto by Martinu.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, the London Philharmonic Orchestra present four composers, each with a thousand tales to tell.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra's Principal Conductor shares his passion for music from Central Europe in the first of two 'Phoenix Lands' concerts. Their programme opens with an overture by Gra偶yna Bacewicz, written during the German occupation of Warsaw and premiered four months after the German surrender as part of the Krakow Festival of Contemporary Music. That's followed by the violin concerto Bohuslav Martin暖 wrote whilst in exile in the USA and premiered in 1946 by the Ukrainian-born American violinist Mischa Elman. He was famed for his lyrical tone, and tonight it falls to the young Czech violinist Josef 艩pa膷ek to step into his shoes. After the interval comes a late masterpiece by Witold Lutos艂awski, premiered in Los Angeles as recently as 1993. And the concert ends with Jan谩膷ek's Taras Bulba, an orchestral rhapsody which retells Nikolai Gogol's tale of the death of the Cossack military leader Taras Bulba. Jan谩cek wrote this suite between 1915-1918, and dedicated the work to 'our army... the armed protector of our nation'.

Presented live by Ian Skelly from London's Royal Festival Hall.

Bacewicz: Overture for orchestra
Martin暖: Concerto no. 2 for violin and orchestra
Josef 艩pa膷ek (violin)

Interval

Lutos艂awski: Symphony no. 4
Jan谩膷ek: Taras Bulba - rhapsody for orchestra

Josef 艩pa膷ek (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

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Music Played

  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Overture

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Concerto No. 2

    Performer: Josef 艩pa膷ek. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque (Op.101 No. 7) in G flat major

    Performer: Josef Spacek. Performer: Pieter Schoeman. Performer: Henry Shapard. Performer: Ben Roskams.

  • Josef Suk

    Ten Songs for female voices and piano four hands Op.15

    Performer: Daniel Buranovsk媒. Performer: Mari谩n Lap拧ansk媒. Choir: Pra啪sk媒 komorn铆 sbor. Conductor: Josef Pan膷铆k.
    • Chandos.

  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Symphony No. 4

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Taras Bulba - Rhapsody

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Keyboard Sonata in A minor, Wq 57-2

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le gibet (Gaspard de la nuit)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Samuel Barber

    Sure on this shining night

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin.
    • Barber: Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3 (Arr. Parkin for Cello and Pian.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

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