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ELLIOTT CARTER : Symphonia 'sum fluxae pretium spei'
( 'I am the prize of inconstant hope' )
Saturday 25 April, 1998 – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Oliver Küssen, CBE
Hendon Music / Boosey & Hawkes, 2008
“A symphony beyond symphonies, the Symphonia was an astoundingly and hearteningly massive achievement for a composer in his mid-eighties. The invention is consistently alert, the execution masterful and the development typically nimble. Thinking of the latin poem Bulla ('The Bubble') by the English poet Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649), Carter adopts the viewpoint of a bubble floating above human affairs, observing, in the three movements, the games people play, the tragedies they endure, and the life that goes on fizzing through them.
The movements may be performed separately, and were separately commissioned: 'Partita' by Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 'Adagio tenebroso' by the BBC for the 100th anniversary of the Proms, and 'Allegro scorrevole' by the Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Christoph von Dohnányi.
But it is when they are played together that the full breadth of this extraordinary work stands revealed.” — Paul Griffiths
https://youtu.be/5jW_ljJnAZo?si=hYCRGAFyIkpORfCk
ELLIOTT CARTER : Symphonia 'sum fluxae pretium spei'
( 'I am the prize of inconstant hope' )
Saturday 25 April, 1998 – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Oliver Küssen, CBE
Hendon Music / Boosey & Hawkes, 2008
“A symphony beyond symphonies, the Symphonia was an astoundingly and hearteningly massive achievement for a composer in his mid-eighties. The invention is consistently alert, the execution masterful and the development typically nimble. Thinking of the latin poem Bulla ('The Bubble') by the English poet Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649), Carter adopts the viewpoint of a bubble floating above human affairs, observing, in the three movements, the games people play, the tragedies they endure, and the life that goes on fizzing through them.
The movements may be performed separately, and were separately commissioned: 'Partita' by Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 'Adagio tenebroso' by the BBC for the 100th anniversary of the Proms, and 'Allegro scorrevole' by the Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Christoph von Dohnányi.
But it is when they are played together that the full breadth of this extraordinary work stands revealed.” — Paul Griffiths
https://youtu.be/5jW_ljJnAZo?si=hYCRGAFyIkpORfCk