Afternoon on 3 - Exile - Episode 2

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Performances by BBC orchestras of music with the theme of displacement, featuring composers who left their native countries. Stravinsky, who emigrated to America in 1940, settled in California, but found life there completely alien to him. Angry after Walt Disney used his Rite of Spring in Fantasia, he returned to his Russian roots with the Symphony in Three Movements, and its punchy rhythms and harmonies. He had written his most popular works before he left Russia, and while he toured the USA as composer/pianist, there are very few works from his time there. Martinu and Britten were on the East coast, the former having escaped the pro-Nazi government in Czechoslovakia, and the latter an exile of conscience in a time of war. Walton was never forced into exile by anyone, but perhaps growing up in Oldham, an opportunity to move to an exclusive island in the Mediterranean was just too good a chance to pass up. Sibelius: Karelia Suite BBC Symphony Orchestra Pietari Inkinen (conductor) Martinu: Rhapsody Concerto Steven Burnard (viola) BBC Philharmonic Tomas Netopil (conductor) 2.35pm Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements BBC Symphony Orchestra Andrew Davis (conductor) Britten: Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra, Op 21 Steven Osborne (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Illan Volkov (conductor) 3.15pm Walton: Cello Concerto Peter Wispelwey (cello) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Illan Volkov (conductor) Rachmaninov: Three Symphonic Dances, Op 45 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Takuo Yuasa (conductor).