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From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge. The 大象传媒 Singers in music for horns and voices exploring the hunt, the forest, magic and the night. Works by Schubert, Tippett and Bingham.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London.
The 大象传媒 Singers conducted by Paul Brough, with the Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, perform music for horns and voices exploring music of the hunt, the forest, magic and the night.
Their programme features Schubert's portayal of night time in a forest and Michael Tippett's Sonata, which conjures up the mysterious nocturnal world of his opera The Midsummer Marriage.
These are followed by the first performance of a new work by Judith Bingham, which retells Ovid's story of the hunter changed into a stag as punishment for seeing a Goddess naked, and then torn to death by his own hounds. Scored for chorus and four horns (which are distributed around the performing space, drawing the audience into the drama of the hunt), the piece explores the complex psychology of this familiar story.
Michael Thompson Horn Quartet
大象传媒 Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde, D913
Fanny Hensel: Partsongs
Michael Tippett: Sonata for four horns
Elizabeth Maconchy: Nocturnal
Judith Bingham: Actaeon - his strange new face (大象传媒 Commission: world premiere).
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- Thu 8 Oct 2009 19:00大象传媒 Radio 3