Moira presents a special live concert from the Clandeboye Festival in County Down, recorded exclusively for Classic FM. Taking place on the historic Clandeboye Estate each August, the festival is the brain-child of Northern-Irish pianist Barry Douglas, and stars his brilliant Camerata Ireland.
Douglas himself plays Beethoven’s mighty ‘Emperor’ piano concerto, after directing the orchestra in works by Mozart and Grieg. Violinist Patrick Rafter also features, playing highlights from a firm Classic FM favourite: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Programme to include:
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons – Highlights
Violin: Patrick Rafter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.29 in A major K.201
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major Opus 73
(‘Emperor’)
Piano: Barry Douglas
Camerata Ireland
Moira showcases a new recording of Beethoven’s famous ‘Moonlight’ Sonata by young pianist Alice Sara Ott. Ott has been celebrated for her performances of Beethoven’s piano works, and this latest release came out at the end of September on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The Sonata was an instant success for the composer, and Ott herself says of performing it: ‘one feels transported both mentally and physically’.
Also in the programme, there’s a brilliant recording of Bach’s Concerto for 2 Violins by two superstars, Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, and the Philharmonia Orchestra plays Dvořák’s cheerful Symphony No.8 in G.
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake — Waltz
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16
Piano: Stephen Hough
Andrew Litton conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins
Violins: Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern
Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana — Intermezzo
Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor Opus 27
(‘Moonlight’)
Piano: Alice Sara Ott
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute & Harp Concerto in C major K.299
Flute: James Galway
Harp: Catrin Finch
Sinfonia Varsovia
Georges Bizet
Carmen — Toreador’s Song
Baritone: Thomas Hampson
Michel Plasson conducts the Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Toulose
Ennio Morricone
Gabriel's Oboe
Ennio Morricone conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No.8 in G major Opus 88
Charles Mackerras conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
Moira features music of epic proportions in the programme. There’s highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which is the highest-ranking ballet in the Classic FM Hall of Fame, before Sir Stephen Hough takes to the stage in a critically acclaimed 2020 recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4
Later, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Mariss Jansons plays Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.2, and there’s a brand new and exclusive work written by Classic FM’s Composer in Residence, Debbie Wiseman, to mark Black History Month.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana — ‘O fortuna’
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in blue
Piano: Peter Donohoe
Simon Rattle conducts the London Sinfonietta
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake — Suite
Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georges Bizet
Carmen — Prelude to Act 1
Pablo Gonzalez conducts the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major Opus 58
Piano: Stephen Hough
Hannu Lintu conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No.2 in D major — Hornpipe
Nicholas McGegan conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor Opus 27
Mariss Jansons conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman & Grahame Davies
Windrush
Bass-baritone: Sir Willard White
Piano: Debbie Wiseman
Cello: Justine Pearson
