Erkki-Sven Tüür: Magma (third party links)

Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. The composer herself remembers of Two’s Company:

“This work was commissioned by the BBC for Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. It was an enormous challenge to write a dramatic work for two such dissimilar sound worlds. I decided that I would strongly dramatize this difference before brining them harmoniously together. The soloists move around the orchestra to different positions and these changes are always dramatically motivated. Throughout the two soloists are aware of each other and play with each other’s attention, but only come together musically and physically in the very last section.”

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Solo Soprano: Lisa Milne
Oboe: Nicholas Daniel
Conductors: Osmo Vänskä & Jiří Bĕlohlávek
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra

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The starting point for Magma came in the form of a request from Evelyn Glennie for a percussion concerto. As Tüür turned the idea over in his mind, he realised he wanted to write a piece where the percussion soloist and the much more deeply integrated than is possible in a concerto; the solution became a symphony with a solo percussionist – in front of the orchestra, not tucked-away at the back where the percussion is usually found. The title was suggested to Tüür because of the raw energy and inner power displayed by the material and its ability to burst out in different places and in different moods; magma can also take an infinite number of shapes and behave in different ways, flowing or turning to stone.

Tüür: Symphony No 4 ‘Magma’
Tüür: Inquiétude du Fini
Tüür: Igavik (Eternity)
Tüür: The Path and the Traces

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Estonian National Male Choir
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

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