大象传媒

The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth in a concert of music by Helen Grime, Hans Abrahamsen, and Mark-Anthony Turnage from Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 6 August as part of the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival.

Presented by Tom Service and Nicola Benedetti.

Helen Grime: Virga
Hans Abrahamsen: Let me tell you
Elizabeth Ogonek: as though birds
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Three Screaming Popes

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Jennifer France (soprano)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth explore orchestral works by some of today's composers. The works are discussed and dissected on stage by Tom Service, and Edinburgh International Festival's director, Nicola Benedetti. They'll explore the festival's theme of 'Where Do We Go From Here?'. On the bill: Helen Grime's 'Virga', a piece which creates a musical picture of half-evaporated rain-drops; Elizabeth Ogonek's youthful score, 'as though birds'; and Mark-Anthony Turnage's excoriating imagining of the visual world of Francis Bacon, 'Three Screaming Popes'. And at the concert's core, an award-winning, poll-beating work by Hans Abrahamsen, 'Let me tell you', in which the orchestra is joined by soprano Jennifer France.