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Beamish - Viola Concerto No 2 ‘The Seafarer’, Whitescape, Sangsters | BIS BISCD1241

Beamish - Viola Concerto No 2 ‘The Seafarer’, Whitescape, Sangsters

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1241

Barcode: 7318590012413

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Ola Rudner

Works

Beamish, Sally

Sangsters (2002)
Viola Concerto no.2 'The Seafarer'
Whitescape (2000)

Artists

Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Ola Rudner

About

This is the fifth disc on BIS dedicated to the music of British composer Sally Beamish. The three works on this disc were all written during her four-year residency with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and each one springs from a literary source.
Beamish – herself a viola player – has given her second concerto for the instrument the title The Seafarer. It is inspired by a modern translation of a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon poem with the same title; a poem which reflects a Nordic view of life’s journey, using the metaphor of a sea voyage. The work is dedicated to Tabea Zimmerman, who performs it on this recording.
In the case of Whitescape, it was the life and work of novelist Mary Shelley and, in particular, her novel Frankenstein, which provided the inspiration. Sangsters also grew out of a poem, this time written in Scots by Betty McKellar. The sangsters (‘singers’) of the title are sky-larks and seals.
The British composer Sally Beamish has been called a “striking and personal voice” whose works “combine lyricism and drama with clarity of form” (Gramophone).

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