大象传媒

The 大象传媒 SSO and Artist in Association, Matthias Pintscher, perform Stravinsky, Schubert and Berlioz.

Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol
Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'

20.25
Music Interval

20.45
Berlioz: Harold In Italy

Antoine Tamestit, viola
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor

The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra with their Artist in Association, Matthias Pintscher, perform the music of dreamers and wanderers. In the first half: Stravinsky's "Chant Du Rossignol" or "Song of the Nightingale", in which the bird flies and dances high, but is then replaced by a mechanical bird which brings illness. However, the real nightingale then returns and brings salvation from death before finally returning to nature.
Schubert's 8th Symphony - one of the first romantic symphonies, wanders off with Schubert's imagination and remains an unfinished work to this day.
In the second half, the 大象传媒 SSO is joined by the great French viola virtuoso Antoine Tamestit, to perform Berlioz's masterpiece "Harold in Italy". Commissioned as a piece to show off Paganini's new Stradivarius viola, it is inspired by Lord Byron's poem, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' describing the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who looks for distraction in foreign lands. The piece perhaps mirrors Berlioz's own wanderings in Italy which he clearly loved.

Live from the City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall.