大象传媒

From MediaCityUK, Salford.
Presented by Tom McKinney

Working in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century, Schreker was obsessed with tone colours and sound. His Chamber Symphony entrances with motives that transform as they are explored by different instruments in an orchestra that includes celeste, harp, harmonium and piano. Timothy Ridout joins the strings of the orchestra for Britten's Lacrymae, in which he reflects on a song by Dowland from the very end of the sixteenth-century, "If my complaints could passions move" in a series of shimmering variations; disintegration gently transforms to unity and we feel a sense of the whole song only as we arrive at the end of the piece.
Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony started life as his Third String Quartet, a piece he withdrew shortly after its premiere; arranged by Barshai to include woodwind, and harp it becomes a public statement

Schreker: Chamber Symphony
Britten: Lachrymae

8.15 (CD)
Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland
Sean Shibe (guitar)

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony op 73a

Timothy Ridout (viola)
大象传媒 Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor)