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大象传媒SO and Singers - Beethoven, Boulez, Dufourt, Grisey

Ilan Volkov conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Grisey: Megalithes. Hugues Dufourt: Piano Concerto. Boulez: cummings ist der Dichter. Beethoven: Symphony No 7 In A.

Ilan Volkov conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and 大象传媒 Singers in Beethoven, Boulez and Gerard Grisey, and Nicolas Hodges is the soloist in a concerto by Hugues Dufourt

Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Gerard Grisey: M茅galithes
Hugues Dufourt: Piano Concerto (UK premiere)

20.10 - Interval: Martin Handley's selection of interval music

Pierre Boulez: Cummings ist der Dichter
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 In A major

大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
大象传媒 Singers
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Followed at approx 9.30pm by CPE Bach and his keyboard sonatas
In his tercentenary year a chance to explore Emanuel Bach's revelatory keyboard music in performances on the clavichord, harpsichord, tangent and fortepianos as well as the modern concert grand piano.

Beethoven's powerful Seventh Symphony is prefaced by a trio of beguiling modern French works in the first of two concerts in the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra's season pairing Beethoven with recent French music. The 大象传媒 Singers have had great success with Boulez's now-classic work Cummings ist der Dichter, which sets the poetry of EE Cummings for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov, known for his high-voltage performances and radical programmes, presents the UK premiere of Hugues Dufourt's piano concerto with Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Dufourt's own world of sonorities reflects that of one of France's greatest 20th century composers, G茅rard Grisey. In his monumental early work M茅galithes, 15 brass players scattered around the hall hurl sonic clusters of shimmering dissonance into the auditorium.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Performer 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Performer 大象传媒 Singers

Broadcast

  • Wed 22 Jan 2014 19:30

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