Britten - Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
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Label: LSO Live
Cat No: LSO0830
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 19th April 2024
Contents
Works
Sinfonia da Requiem, op.20Spring Symphony, op.44
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Artists
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)Alice Coote (mezzo)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Tiffin Children’s Chorus
The Tiffin Girls’ School Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Simon RattleWorks
Sinfonia da Requiem, op.20Spring Symphony, op.44
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Artists
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)Alice Coote (mezzo)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Tiffin Children’s Chorus
The Tiffin Girls’ School Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Simon RattleAbout
Written shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Sinfonia da Requiem meditates in part on the political populism which had, for the second time in just a few decades, plunged the world into an existential crisis. In this piece, Britten’s rich, yearning harmonies reveal a sombre and dramatic warning of the cost of conflict.
From the darkness of war, we move towards the light with Britten’s choral Spring Symphony. With its mysterious reimagining of traditional English folk song and verse, the work depicts the gradual reawakening of the natural world when winter ebbs away, and spring begins to triumph.
Britten let his imagination catch fire in The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. This brilliantly original showpiece is one of the composer’s best-known pieces and draws the album to a close.
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