George Lewis and Beethoven
Another chance to hear the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO and Ilan Volkov with soprano Lucy Crowe perform George Lewis's Minds in Flux and Beethoven's Second Symphony and concert aria Ah! perfido.
From the 2021 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms: ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO & Ilan Volkov with soprano Lucy Crowe. A new work, Minds in Flux, by George Lewis; and Beethoven's Symphony No 2 and concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson
George Lewis: Minds in Flux
Interval
Kate Molleson talks to George Lewis about the forces that have influenced him as a composer and artist.
Part 2
Beethoven: Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’
Beethoven: Symphony No 2
Lucy Crowe, soprano
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Another chance to hear the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality and ‘smiling’ mood belie the private struggles and despair of a composer wrestling with hearing loss. Plus a commission from celebrated American composer George Lewis. This recent work blends a conventional orchestra with spatialised electronics, exploiting the unique space of the Royal Albert Hall to create, in Lewis’s words, ‘a medium for meditation on what processes of decolonisation might sound like’.
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Music Played
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George Lewis
Minds in Flux
Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Louis Andriessen
De Tijd
Ensemble: Netherlands Schoenberg Ensemble. Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw. -
Franck Bedrossian
Charleston
Ensemble: L'Itineraire Ensemble. Conductor: Mark Foster. -
Anthony Davis
Amistad (extract)
Orchestra: Orchestra of Lyric Opera Chicago. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. -
Matana Roberts
All Is Written
Performer: Matana Roberts. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ah! perfido
Performer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.2
Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Broadcast
- Wed 22 Dec 2021 19:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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