大象传媒

Two UK premieres on show tonight: sparky Firelights by Elisabetta Brusa, and Victoria Borisova-Ollas鈥檚 dream-like sound world in The Kingdom of Silence which explores 鈥渢hat mysterious country where we all should go to after our lifetime鈥�. Alexandra Dariescu is the soloist in the inventive Ballade for piano and orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), the only woman member of Les Six, the group of composers in 1920s Paris which included Poulenc, Honegger and Milhaud.

The concert finishes with Heroic Strokes of the bow by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen鈥檚 Music. This is the composer鈥檚 response to Paul Klee鈥檚 painting of the same name 鈥� 鈥渁 blue and black painting on pink newspaper鈥�.which seems to show a simple pattern of violin bows and pegs against a hypnotic blue background.鈥�

The conductor is Stefan Solyom, Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Helsingborg Symfoniorkester, Sweden.

Recorded at Maida Vale Studios on 31st January 2020
Presented by Penny Gore

Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights (UK premiere)
Germaine Tailleferre: Ballade for piano and orchestra

8.10 pm
Interval

Pauline Viardot: Choeur Bohemien;
Mel Bonis: L'Oiseau Bleu
大象传媒 Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor)

Clara Schumann: Notturno No 2 of Soire茅s musicales Op.6
Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

8.20pm Part 2
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Kingdom of Silence (UK premiere)
Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow

Alexandra Dariescu (piano)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom (conductor)