SUNDAY JULY 22 8 PM EST
Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi Four Seasons Watch here
Dvorak: Rusalka 2002, Opera National de Paris
Rusalka -- Renée Fleming
Ježibaba -- Larissa Diadkova
The Prince -- Sergei Larin
The Water Spirit -- Franz Hawlata
The Foreign Princess -- Eva Urbanova
The Gamekeeper -- Michel Sénéchal
Paris National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
James Conlon, conductor
Robert Carsen, stage director
Michael Levine, set and costume design
Charles Abramovic: Delius In a Summer Garden, arranged for piano
In a Summer Garden (1908, rev. 1911) - Piano transcription by Peter Warlock (1921, published 1982)
An orchestral fantasy by English composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934), arranged for solo piano by his admirer and colleague Peter Warlock, a.k.a. Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894-1930). The score contains two literary quotations. The first is a couplet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
"All are my blooms; and all sweet blooms of love.
To thee I gave while Spring and Summer sang."
The second is of unknown origin:
"Roses, lilies, and a thousand scented flowers. Bright butterflies, flitting from petal to petal. Beneath the shade of ancient trees, a quiet river with water lilies. In a boat, almost hidden, two people. A thrush is singing in the distance."
Neptune, Poem of the Sea by Cyril Scott.
Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Philhamonic.
I. Andante - Molto Maestoso - 00:00
II. Con Moto - Largo - 5:36
III. Tempo Di Valse - Molto Cantbile - Wistfully- 7:18
IV. Allegro Agitato - 10:59
V. Adagio Molto - Tristamente - 20:28
The score of Neptune is a revised version of Scott's symphonic poem Disaster at Sea, a programmatic account of the sinking of the Titanic. The work evokes a cold calm sea, becoming more animated as the ship sails on its way. Later the trombones clearly evoke a foghorn and a tremendous climax follows. A series of storm episodes ensue before the whole orchestra takes up a lament for loss at sea.
Niklas Willén: Rangström Song of the Sea
[Havet sjunger] (1913)
A symphonic poem (or as the composer called it, a "tone painting") by Ture Rangström (1884-1947), one of the pioneers of modernism in Swedish music. He composed this work during the summer of 1913 in the fishing village Harstena in the Östergötland archipelago.
Conductor: Niklas Willén
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
