Title: Beyond Artist: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Label: Orchid Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060189563685 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-04-04 Number of Discs: 1
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 it's 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 Ades'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 it's virtuosic soloist.For this album of world-premiere recordings, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by contemporary music specialist Timothy Redmond, is joined by the virtuoso trombone superstar Peter Moore.
Tracks: 1.1 Three-Piece Suite from Powder Her Face~Overture 1.2 Three-Piece Suite from Powder Her Face~Waltz 1.3 Three-Piece Suite from Powder Her Face~Finale 1.4 Stargazer~I. Searching the Night Sky 1.5 Stargazer~II. Constellations 1.6 Stargazer~III Arcturus ; Canis chasing Ursa Major ; Minor with Lyra 1.7 Stargazer~IV. Gemini 1.8 Stargazer~V. Orion, Pegasus 1.9 Stargazer~VI. The Milky Way 1.10 Eurydice Suite~I. The Underworld 1.11 Eurydice Suite~II. A Letter From Above 1.12 Eurydice Suite~III. A Room Made Out of String 1.13 Eurydice Suite~IV. The Walk 1.14 Heath 1.15 Liar Suite from Marnie
