大象传媒

Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Ilan Volkov conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in two new works by Dieter Schnebel and David Sawer, alongside Schubert's 9th Symphony.

Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major

Christine Rice (mezzo)
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Ilan Volkov conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in two new works by Dieter Schnebel and David Sawer, alongside Schubert's 9th Symphony.
Theatre is at the heart of David Sawer's incisive and original music, and his new commission Flesh and Blood is a dramatic scena featuring star British singers Christine Rice and Marcus Farnsworth. Dieter Schnebel's Schubert Fantasia, which opens the concert, recalls dreamlike fragments from Schubert's G major Piano Sonata refracted through a shimmering haze of dissonant harmonies. 150 years earlier, Schubert wrote his 'Great' Ninth Symphony, a powerful feat of sustained momentum, driven by buoyant rhythms, explosive emotions and vast, inexorable climaxes, conducted by the visionary Ilan Volkov.