LIVE: Klaus Mäkelä conducts symphonies by Sibelius
The Radio Symphony Orchestra's first guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä visits the orchestra with Sibelius' symphonies number six and seven. The program begins with effervescent music by Robert Schumann for four horns and orchestra.
Klaus Mäkelä leads the concert's two symphonies without a break, so the sixth ends where the seventh takes over. The symphonies are also in a way related in content and both came to the years 1923-24.
The program begins with a bubbling orchestral piece signed by Robert Schumann. He composed a concert piece for four horns and orchestra in 1849, when he lived in Dresden and came into contact with the city's symphony orchestra and its master hornist Joseph-Rudolph Lewy. Schumann came to dedicate this work to him.
Soloists in this performance are members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloists: Hans Larsson, Chris Parkes, Anna Ferriol de Ciurana, Bengt Ny, French horn. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
1. Robert Schumann: Concerto for four horns, F major
2. Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6, in D minor
3. Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7, C major.
Live broadcast from Berwaldhallen in Stockholm.
Nigel Short conducts the Radio Choir
From Francis Poulenc's "Salve regina" to Bob Chilcott's "Marriage to my Lady Poverty" and Bach's motet "Sing to them a new song". Nigel Short leads the Radio Choir in a devotional and entertaining program.
The radio choir. Conductor: Nigel Short.
Johanna Sjunnesson, cello, Johan Hansson Lindström, organ.
1. Alfonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum
2. Anon: Pange lingua
3. Francis Poulenc: Salve regina
4. William Harris: Faire is the heaven
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem herrn ein neues lied
6. Edward Elgar: There is sweet music
7. Bob Chilcott: Marriage to my Lady Poverty
8. Bob Chilcott: The modern man I sing
Concert from 24 October 2020, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm.
Music towards midnight
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