Ralph Vaughan Williams began writing a cello concerto in the 1940s, but never finished. The fragmentary manuscript is in the British Museum in London. Cellist Steven Isserlis was thrilled to get a look at it recently, and asked composer David Matthews to take a peek. This year, Matthews incorporated that 4-minute fragment into a longer original piece that he calls "Dark Pastoral." On Friday's PT, the world premiere performance from a concert two weeks ago at the Proms in London. Steven Isserlis solos with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Also from the 2010 Proms, "Mashup" by Chris Willis, combining tunes from about a dozen and a half classical favorites.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ernest Bloch: Prayer from Jewish Life
Lynn Harrell, cello, Bruno Canino, piano
Anonymous: La Vida de Culin and Zappay lo Campo
La Caravaggia Ensemble, Lluis Coll, director
Sant Francesc Cloister, Berga, Spain
Anonymous: Lanchas Para Bailar
Ensemble Ars Longa
Stockholm Early Music Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
Perfchat with the Bergen Woodwind Quintet: Perfchat
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Harald Saeverud: Quintet No. 1 from Siljustol
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Chris Willis: Mash-Up
The National Children's Chamber Orchestra, the National Youth Chamber Orchestra, and the Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Salamone Rossi: Ebreo and Seconda Desperada
Fretwork
Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
Yuri Bashmet, viola, the London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Franz Schubert: First movement from Piano Sonata in G, D. 894
Lars Vogt, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
David Matthews: Dark Pastorale
Steven Isserlis, cello, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Georg Philipp Telemann: Gulliver's Suite, for two violins
Livia Sohn and Geoff Nuttall, violins
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantasie in D for Solo Flute
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
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