Philharmonia – Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky (part 1)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall in London Episode 1 of 2
First broadcast: Thursday 17 October 2013
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a Russian programme of music by Stravinsky plus Tchaikovsky’s ‚Manfred‘ Symphony.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Stravinsky: Four Norwegian Moods
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
The Philharmonia’s Conductor Laureate leads the orchestra in a programme culminating in Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony, a programmatic piece based on the poem by Lord Byron. It’s a love it or hate it piece: Toscanini considered it Tchaikovsky’s greatest work, while Bernstein condemned it as ‚trash‘. The first half starts with Stravinsky’s music for a projected Hollywood film about the Nazi invasion of Norway, which he recycled as a short suite. Young Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, a neoclassical piece from 1931.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cnrlq
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