麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra - Michael Zev Gordon, Mahler
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London. Michael Zev Gordon: Bohortha. Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder (with Alice Coote: mezzo-soprano).
The 麻豆社 SO's exciting new Barbican Season opens with Shostakovich's 4th Symphony, a new work by Michael Zev Gordon, and mezzo Alice Coote sings Mahler. Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Shostakovich was never closer to the spirit of Mahler than in his phantasmagoric fourth symphony, written and withdrawn during Stalin's Great Terror. The composer intended it to be his 'Symphonic Credo', and it's a work with an astonishing spectrum of characters and styles, from satire to high tragedy, romanticism to grotesquerie, all fuelled with a near-delirious life force. Shostakovich was fascinated by Mahler's vast orchestra and extended forms, a world away from the transparent orchestration of his mini-psychodramas, the R眉ckert-Lieder, performed here by one of the UK's most treasured mezzo-sopranos, Alice Coote. The concert begins with a seven-movement exploration of our awareness of time passing by Michael Zev Gordon. Bohortha is a tiny hamlet on the Cornish coast with no roads from it: in Gordon's words, 'a beautiful image of open-endedness'.
Michael Zev Gordon: Bohortha
Mahler: R眉ckert-Lieder *
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra.
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Michael Zev Gordon
Bohortha - 7 pieces for orchestra
Conductor: Jukka-Pekka SARASTE Performer: 麻豆社 S O.
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Gustav Mahler
5 Ruckert-Lieder vers. for voice and orch
Conductor: Jukka-Pekka SARASTE Performer: Alice COOTE - Mezzo-soprano Performer: 麻豆社 S O.
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- Wed 3 Oct 2012 19:30麻豆社 Radio 3