BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 4 - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (320kbp .mp3)
Live at the BBC Proms: Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
01. Andrea Tarrodi - Birds of Paradise
01a. Introduction to Andrea Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise
02. Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 in C major
02a. Outro to Tarrodi, intro to Beethoven
02b. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 4 - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - Interval
Violinist Rachel Podger talks to Hannah French about Vivaldi, and her experience performing Vivaldi's music on period instruments with her ensemble Brecon Baroque.
03 Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (interspersed with folk music improvisations)
03a. Outro to The Four Seasons and Finnish folk song
Ale Carr, cittern
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Pekka Kuusisto, violin/conductor
Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads one of Europe’s top chamber orchestras, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, in a Prom part-inspired by the natural world. A BBC documentary was the starting point for Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise, whose iridescent colours and sharp textural contrasts capture the exotic birds. Closer to home, a cuckoo calls out in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, whose pastoral scenes are heard as never before here – interspersed with folk music improvisations by Kuusisto and citternist Ale Carr. Beethoven’s youthful First Symphony forms the beating heart of the programme.
Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
