大象传媒

Presented by Martin Handley.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in works centring on the city of Vienna, from 1900 to 1935.

The programme features works by Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, who were were close friends: Schoenberg composed his seminal piece Verklarte Nacht in 1899 while on holiday with Zemlinsky and Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde, who became Schoenberg's first wife in 1906. Based on a series of love poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, Zemlinsky's work was originally written for string sextet and he then arranged it for string orchestra some years later. Both pieces express the same sense of yearning common to much of the art of the time.

Solveig Kringelborn (Soprano)
Juha Uusitalo (Baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony

Followed by music from the generation of composers who influenced Henry Purcell.

Byrd: Pavana lachrimae
Sophie Yates (Virginals)
Recorded: 23rd November 1992

Byrd: The Carman's whistle
Sophie Yates (Virginals)
Recorded: 23rd November 1992

Jenkins: Pavan for 4 viols in B flat major
Concordia
Recorded: 21st November 1992

Jenkins: Air for 4 viols and organ no. 23 in D major
Concordia
Recorded: 21st November 1992

Lawes: Royall consort suite no. 8 in C major
Concordia
Recorded: 21st November 1992

Bassano: Fantasia no.3
His Majestys Sagbutts and CornettsIS HYPERION Hyperion CDA66894 1/23

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