A musical journey with the brass and percussion of the Berliner Philharmoniker
22 Nov 2020
Brass and percussionists of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Thomas Guggeis
Emmanuel Pahud
Stefan Dohr on the programme (5 min.)
Aaron Copland · Joan Tower
Fanfare for the Common Man · Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (6 min.)Wen-Chung Chou
Soliloquy of a Bhiksuni (7 min.)André Jolivet
Suite en concert for flute and four percussionists (18 min.)Emmanuel Pahud flute
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. by Elgar Howarth) (34 min.)
The members of the Berliner Philharmoniker invite you on a musical journey from America and Russia to Asia with a delightful combination of brass instruments and percussion: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man is answered by Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, and the meditations of a Chinese nun in Wen-Chung Chou’s Soliloquy of a Bhiksuni is contrasted with Mussorgsky’s powerful Pictures at an Exhibition.
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