Beyond BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Redmond & Peter Moore

• Thomas Adès (b. 1971): Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face:
• 1 Adès: Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face: Overture 03:58
• 2 Adès: Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face: Waltz 04:07
• 3 Adès: Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face: Finale 02:22
• Jonathan Dove (b. 1959): Stargazer:
• 4 Dove: Stargazer: Searching the Night Sky 02:41
• 5 Dove: Stargazer: Constellations 03:59
• 6 Dove: Stargazer: Arcturus & Canis chasing Ursa Major & Minor with Lyra 02:17
• 7 Dove: Stargazer: Gemini 05:33
• 8 Dove: Stargazer: Orion, Pegasus 05:57
• 9 Dove: Stargazer: The Milky Way 02:41
• Matthew Aucoin (b. 1990): Eurydice Suite:
• 10 Aucoin: Eurydice Suite: The Underworld 05:06
• 11 Aucoin: Eurydice Suite: A Letter From Above 02:57
• 12 Aucoin: Eurydice Suite: A Room Made Out of String 04:01
• 13 Aucoin: Eurydice Suite: The Walk 06:15
• Heath:
• 14 Aucoin: Heath 12:21
• Nico Muhly (b. 1981): Liar Suite from Marnie:
• 15 Muhly: Liar Suite from Marnie 17:36
• Total Runtime 01:21:51

Info for Beyond

In opera, the orchestra creates the subconscious, the backstory, and the soundscape of the drama. Brooding and dark, overwhelming and passionate, or edgy and biting, the orchestra's sound guides our imagination, and when released from its supporting role in the pit the result can be a thrilling experience of musical storytelling.

This album celebrates the music of four of today’s most distinguished opera composers. The Three-Piece Suite from Thomas Adès’s modern classic Powder Her Face sparkles and sizzles; Nico Muhly’s Liar Suite from Marnie is a taut psychodrama in symphonic form; Matthew Aucoin distills his moving operatic version of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice into a haunting tone poem and sketches an as-yet-unwritten opera in Heath; and Jonathan Dove’s luminously beautiful Stargazer, subtitled “an opera for trombone and orchestra,” offers a lyrical showcase for its virtuosic soloist. For this album of world-premiere recordings, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by contemporary music specialist Timothy Redmond, is joined by the virtuoso trombone superstar Peter Moore.

Peter Moore, trombone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Redmond, conductor

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