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Edinburgh International Festival 2018

Edinburgh International Festival 2018: 大象传媒 SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes, and Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony with Edinburgh Festival Chorus.

Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Presented by Donald Macleod

Edinburgh International Festival 2018: 大象传媒 SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes and Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony with Edinburgh Festival Chorus.

Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscapes

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 1 ( A Sea Symphony )

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins and the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform music of land and sea, from the stage of Edinburgh's Usher Hall. Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes - receiving its Scottish Premiere - takes inspiration from the paintings of J. M. W. Turner, its movements turning those images into rich sonic pictures as diverse as his "Sunrise with Sea Monsters", and "Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps."

"Behold the Sea", so begins Vaughan Williams' epic A Sea Symphony, a vast sea-picture drawing on the words of Walt Whitman's metaphysical magnum-opus, Leaves of Grass. Tonight their humanist message comes to life in the voices of soloists Christopher Maltman and Elizabeth Watts, along with the massed ranks of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 13 Sep 2018 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Thea Musgrave

    Turbulent Landscapes

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Donald Tovey

    Variations on a Theme by Gluck

    Ensemble: Ormesby Ensemble.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 74

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Weber: Concertante Works for Clarinet and Horn: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 11-13.

Broadcast

  • Thu 13 Sep 2018 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3