大象传媒

Presented by Penny Gore
The 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios with a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded recently.
Two works written by composers at the start of their creative outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There鈥檚 a rarely performed work by the 13-year-old Richard Strauss, his Serenade in G major. The Concerto for piano, full string orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct furrow through the 20th-century Soviet Union. And we end with Jean Sibelius鈥檚 final symphony, written in 1923-24. Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of one long continuous movement. Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan both make their 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra debuts.
It's followed by performances given by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama taken as part of the 大象传媒's Total Immersion cycle, devoted this time to the music of Detlev Glanert, including also works from some of his German contemporaries. First we hear Three Auden Songs by Hans Werner Henze, followed by Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op. 13, by Glanert himself.

2.00pm
R. Strauss: Serenade in G, AV 32
Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto*
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Marianna Shirinyan, piano*
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen, conductor

3.10pm
Henze: Three Auden Songs (1983)
Jonah Halton, tenor
Matthew Gemmill, piano

Glanert: Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op.13 (1986)
Leo Popplewell, cello
Matthew Gemmill, piano