The Full Score Tuesday 19 February 2019

The Full Score with Liz Nolan

Seven-time grammy-winning pianist Emmanuel Ax still practices the piano four hours daily - hear him performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3 in today's Full Score.

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Monday 18th February

It was only after Tchaikovsky’s death that his fifth symphony grew in popularity. Audiences and critics alike acknowledged Tchaikovsky’s great skill as an orchestrator and his powerful evocation of the idea of fate throughout the symphony. Today, it stands as one of his most loved symphonies. We’ll hear it performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G BWV 1048
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K.364
Alexander Barantschik (violin)
Jonathan Vinocour (viola)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Tuesday 19th February

Seven-time Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax still practices the piano four hours daily – hear him performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 in today’s Full Score.

Mahler: Blumine
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Op.37
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Copland: Music from the from ‘Our Town’
Debussy: La plus que lente L121
Delius: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Sibelius: Valse triste from Kuolema Op.44
Rachmaninov: Vocalise Op.34/14
Delibes: Cortege de Bacchus from the ballet Sylvia
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Wednesday 20th February

Something worth listening out for! Alexander Barantschik plays a 1742 Guarnerius del Gesù violin. Once owned by the virtuoso Ferdinand David, who is believed to have played it in the world premiere of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in 1845, it was also the favourite instrument of the legendary Jascha Heifetz, who acquired it in 1922. Hear Barantschik playing two Beethoven Romances on today’s Full Score.

Beethoven: Romance in G Op.40
Alexander Barantschik (violin)
Beethoven: Romance in F Op.50
Beethoven: Symphony No.8 in F, Op.93
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Thursday 21st February

Fact of the day: Did you know that Berlioz wrote a part in his Symphonie Fantastique for the bass ophicleide, a brass instrument that looks like a cross between a bassoon and saxophone, with long, cone-shaped tubing and a mouthpiece similar to a trombone’s. Nowadays the part is played by the tuba. Tune in to the Full Score for the San Francisco Symphony’s rendition of this great work.

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1 in D Op.19
Julia Fischer (violin)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Op.14
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Friday 22nd February

Grandeur, bold melodies and heroic spirit – Liz Nolan has it all for you in today’s Full Score courtesy of Richard Strauss and Beethoven.

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat Op.73 (Emperor)
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Music Played on the Show

13:01

Title: Violin Sonata No. 10 In G, Op. 96

Composer: Beethoven, Ludvig van

Performer(s): Mintcho Mintchev (Violin), Еvgeni Bozhanov (Piano)

Album: Recorded at the Varna Summer International Music Festival / ER/2018/04/06/07

Duration: 25:18

13:27

Title: Balletto Delle Virtu

Composer: Stefano Landi

Performer(s): L'Arpeggiata

Album: Stefano Landi ‎– L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar -Homo Fugit Velut Umbra... / Alpha Productions / Alpha 020

Duration: 1:47

13:34

Title: Blumine

Performer(s): San Francisco Symphony Orchestra