London Schubert Players. King’s Place. George Enescu: ‘Chamber Symphony for 12 solo instruments’

Описание: The UK Première in 2011 of George Enescu’s Chamber Symphony
The work was chosen as a ‘Composing Model’ in the series: Enescu inspires contemporary composers.

Enescu's last work, the Chamber Symphony for 12 solo instruments Op. 33 finished in May 1954, two months before the stroke that crippled him, is a poignant testimony to the composer's pain, regret and acceptance of his imminent mortality. Written in a gigantic and very complex sonata-form encompassing all four movements, the work is an unusual composition where the major roles are played by the winds, horn and trumpet, while the piano sustains the harmonic resonances and the strings have only a secondary, coloristic importance. It is based on an earlier attempt of the composer to write a Septet for Winds and Brass (1900) and bears similarities with his Quartet No 2 and the great aria of the Sphinx from his opera Oedipe in the dark, intense and foreboding atmosphere of the Scherzo and the Adagio. However, the trajectory of the work travels from darkness to light and the fourth movement encapsulates all the significant moments from the previous movements.

Performers:
Hu Kun - Conductor
Anda Anastasescu – Piano
Florin Szigeti – Violin
Vladimir Mendelssohn – Viola
Dorel Fodoreanu – Cello
Michael Cretu – Double Bass
Wissam Boustany – Flute
Andrew Knights – Oboe
Ruth Berresford – Cor Anglais
Florian Popa – Clarinet
Tom Hardy – Bassoon
Mark Wood – Horn
Huw Morgan – Trumpet

Live performance in London’s King’s Place concert hall in 2011 as part of the project ‘Invitation to Composers’ financed by the European Commission.
www.invitationtocomposers.co.uk