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Edinburgh International Festival: Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-M枚st

The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Most, play Ives and Bruckner's Eighth Symphony at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival.

The Cleveland Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. Once viewed as iconoclastic, Ives is now seen as the father of American music. From the Steeples and Mountains paints a picture of a quiet Sunday morning and ends having ascended the highest of craggy peaks. The magnificence of the Usher Hall's organ can be heard in Joela Jones's performance of two of Ives's works for organ; his Variations on America and Postlude in F.

Bruckner's Eighth Symphony is one of his grandest. Hugo Wolf, who attended the Vienna premiere, wrote that it was 'the work of a giant'. Here it receives what one critic described as "an epic account, with an impressive combination of power and delicacy".

First presented by Petroc Trelawny on 20th September 2010.

Ives: Variations on America (original version for organ)
From the Steeples and Mountains (for four sets of bells, trumpet and trombone)
Postlude in F for organ
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 (original 1887 version)

Joela Jones Organ
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-M枚st Conductor

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Charles Ives

    Variations on 'America'

    Performer: Joela Jones.
  • Charles Ives

    From the steeples and the mountains

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
  • Charles Ives

    Postlude in F

    Performer: Joela Jones.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 8 in C minor (original edition)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Two Concert Studies

    Performer: John Ogdon. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • TESTAMENT.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    String Quartet in E minor

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Lloyd Coleman

    Rhossili Bay in August

    Performer: James Horan.

Broadcast

  • Thu 17 Sep 2020 19:30