成人快手

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 only at the end of the piece do we feel a sense of the song as a whole.

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, timpani and harp, it becomes a public statement.

Programme

Schreker: Chamber Symphony

成人快手 Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon, conductor

Britten: Lachrymae

成人快手 Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon, conductor

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony op 73a

Timothy Ridout, viola
成人快手 Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon, conductor

From MediaCityUK, Salford.
Presented by Tom McKinney