大象传媒

Live from the Barbican, Sakari Oramo conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's 2nd Symphony & the UK premiere of Anna Clyne's violin concerto The Seamstress with Jennifer Koh.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad

Clyne: The Seamstress - Violin Concerto (UK Premiere)

c. 8.10pm - Interval - Butterworth's song-cycle Bredon Hill and Other songs

Elgar: Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63

Jennifer Koh (violin)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A yearning melancholy binds the music of Elgar and Butterworth that features in tonight's concert, and the sentiment is echoed in a beguiling new violin concerto from London-born composer Anna Clyne, written for dynamic violinist Jennifer Koh. George Butterworth, who died at the Somme in 1916, will forever be defined by his Housman settings, A Shropshire Lad, from which he derived this bittersweet orchestral rhapsody. 'A passionate pilgrimage of the soul' was how Elgar described his mighty, restless Second Symphony. Sakari Oramo, who has a strong affinity for English music, conducts.