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大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davis in Elgar, Yiu and Elkington

Live from the Barbican, the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Two works by Elgar and baritone Roderick Williams performs a song cycle by Raymond Yiu.

Live from the Barbican, the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Two works by Elgar, & baritone Roderick Williams joins for a song cycle by Raymond Yiu.

Presented by Martin Handley

Elgar: The Starlight Express (selections)*
Raymond Yiu: The World was Once All Miracle (London Premiere)+

20.15 Interval

20.35
Lilian Elkington: Out of the Mist
Elgar: The Spirit of England Op.80

Emma Tring (soprano)*
Roderick Williams (baritone)*
Andrew Staples (tenor) +
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus +
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

The First World War looms large over tonight's concert with two Elgar works of the time performed by famed Elgarians the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with conductor Sir Andrew Davis.

When Elgar was asked early in the War to write music for a Homefront theatre adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's curious escapist novel A Prisoner in Fairyland he delivered a work of never-never land enchantment - The Starlight Express. Baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Emma Tring join the 大象传媒 SO.

Baritone Roderick Williams's second appearance tonight is for The World Was Once All Miracle by the composer Raymond Yiu. Premiered last year to great acclaim, the work sets texts by a hero of Yiu's, the writer and sometime composer Anthony Burgess - who was born in 1917.

Lilian Elkington's Out of the Mist (1921) is a recently discovered war treasure. It paints a picture of Dover on 10th November 1920 as HMS Verdun, with a flotilla of battleships, appears through the Channel fog bringing the body of the Unknown Warrior on its way to final rest in Westminster Abbey.

Elgar's noble choral masterpiece The Spirit of England memorialises the fallen setting texts by Laurence Binyon , including the lines 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old'. Andrew Staples is the tenor soloist.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 13 Apr 2018 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    The Starlight Express (selections)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Singer: Roderick Williams. Singer: Emma Tring.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'Sick of the sycophantic singing' (1st mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'For we were all caught in the shame of sleep' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'You were there, and nothing was said' (3rd mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'I have raised and poised a fiddle' (4th mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'One looks for Eden in history, best left unvisited' (5th mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Raymond Yiu

    The World Was Once All Miracles, 'Useless to hope to hold off' (6th mvt)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.

  • Rudi Stephan

    Music for 7 Stringed Instruments, 'Nachspiel' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Horenstein Ensemble.
    • Lost Generation.
    • Acousense Classics.
    • ACO12315.
    • 2.

  • Frederick Septimus Kelly

    24 Monographs for Piano, No. 18

    Featured Artist: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • A Race Against Time.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 00028948145799.
    • 40.

  • William Denis Browne

    4 Songs for Voice and Piano, 'Diaphenia' (no. 3)

    Singer: Robin Tritschler. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • No Exemptions No Exemptions.
    • Signum Classics.
    • SIGCD401.
    • 16.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, 'Toccata' (no. 6)

    Featured Artist: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Erato.
    • 2564 60268-1.
    • 14.

  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Spirit of England Op. 80, 'The Fourth of August' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Singer: Andrew Staples. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Spirit of England Op. 80, 'To Women' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Singer: Andrew Staples. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Spirit of England Op. 80, 'For the Fallen' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Singer: Andrew Staples. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Rom茅o et Juliette (Part 1, No 2b Strophes, Premiers transports)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Chorus. Conductor: Kazushi Ono.
    • Diva Divo - Opera Arias: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire (Overture)

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Naxos.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley Overture, Op.1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • LSO LIVE.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3