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Britten was asked to rework the delicate minuet from Mahler’s Third Symphony to help bring him to a wider audience. Whilst preserving the essence of Mahler – distilling his wonderment at natural beauty – Britten lightens the original orchestral forces and gives this reverie on flowers a more intimate version, with almost Schubertian accents. Mozart’s E-flat Piano Concerto is a mix of profundity and flippancy. With its solemn slow movement and the opera buffa finale that suddenly turns darkly introspective. It is particularly notable for its luxuriant interplay between the piano and the woodwind quintet, rising out of the orchestra almost as a separate entity to engage in poignant, private conversations among themselves. Schumann wrote his First Symphony in an astonishing burst of creative energy over four days. Its vivacity is completely characteristic of him at the peak of his happiness. Opening with a dramatic fanfare by the trumpets summoning spring’s awakening, Schumann’s gift for melody and rich romantic harmonies is on full show whilst retaining a clarity, balance, and formal integrity.
Andrew Manze – Conductor
Yeol Eum Son – Piano
Works and Composers:
Mahler/Britten: What the Wild Flowers tell me
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22 K.482
Schumann: Symphony No.1 ‘Spring’