13 May 2008
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday 13 May 2008 19:00-20:45 (Radio 3)
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the world premiere of Tsunami by Dominic Muldowney as well as a work for baritone and orchestra setting the poetry of James Fenton. Muldowney's piece incorporates television footage of the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, with Olivier award-winning music theatre actor and singer Philip Quast as the soloist.
This is prefaced by two pieces by Vaughan Williams - the war-time Symphony No 6, and an early choral work whose text is derived from a metaphysical text by Walt Whitman. Holst's choral work that follows is based on another mystical text, the Apochrypha, which uses the theme of dance as a divine path to enlightenment.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist:
Philip Quast (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region; Symphony No 6 in E minor
Dominic Muldowney: Tsunami (RPS commission: world premiere)
Ives: General William Booth enters into Heaven
Holst: The Hymn of Jesus Op 37
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