Radio 3 in Concert: World Environment Day Concert

Andrew McGregor introduces an evening of music to mark the United Nations' International World Environment Day, including Beethoven's Pastoral symphony and Tan Dun's Prayer and Blessing. The concert opens with Beethoven's homage to the sanctity of nature and continues with Tan Dun's response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and other natural disasters which, ending with the world premiere of Tan Dun's Prayer and Blessing, a work directly inspired by the corona pandemic. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op 68, Pastoral, Michael Gottard Fischer (arr.). Members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature (chamber version). Martin Grubinger, Martin Grubinger Sr and Slavik Stakhov (percussion), Ferhan Onder and Ferzan Onder (piano); Prayer and Blessing - World Premiere Martin Grubinger (percussion), members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra