大象传媒

Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Martyn Brabbins conducts Elgar and Tippett.

Elgar: Sospiri, Op 70
Sea Pictures, Op 37
8.15: Interval
Tippett: Symphony No. 3

Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Rachel Nicholls, soprano
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

In a restless and angry world, music battles to make itself heard. And then, from amidst the turmoil and strife, a woman's voice breaks through - singing not a hymn to joy, but a heartfelt and sorrowful blues. Michael Tippett had the idea for his Third Symphony while at the Edinburgh International Festival; written during the 'Summer of Love', it's a masterpiece with an urgent message for the 21st century. And it's a wonderfully appropriate counterpart to Elgar's Sea Pictures. Songs of beauty, longing and despair from a composer who was anything but a stiff old Edwardian gent, sung here by the great Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill.