Afternoon on 3 - Folk Influences - Episode 1

In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk Day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe. With the Ulster Orchestra performing music from Ireland, Norway and central Europe plus an eclectic mix of live and specially-recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside BBC Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements. Grieg: Lyric suite (arr. for orchestra) (Lyric pieces for piano - Book 5, Op 54) Ulster Orchestra Esa Heikkila (conductor) Vaino Raitio: Four Dances: Tango; Danse grotesque; Humoreski; Valssi Ulster Orchestra Tuomas Ollila (conductor) Harty: An Irish Symphony Ulster Orchestra Takuo Yuasa (conductor) Joan Trimble: Suite for strings Ulster Orchestra Takuo Yuasa (conductor) Gorecki: Wislo moja, Wislo szara Jetse Bremer Komt vrieden in het ronden BBC Singers Bob Chilcott (conductor) Janacek: Lachian dances Ulster Orchestra Adrian Leaper (conductor) Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian folk-song (The Peacock) Ulster Orchestra David Porcelijn (conductor) Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 100 (orch. from 15 Hungarian peasant songs for piano) Ulster Orchestra Takuo Yuasa (conductor) Archibald James Potter: Gaelic Fantasy No 1 for orchestra Ulster Orchestra Robert Houlihan (conductor) Stanford: Irish rhapsody No 1 in D minor, Op 78 Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley (conductor).