Scotland
Västerås Sinfonietta, Simon Crawford-Phillips
[Grime's] two-part Elegiac Inflections includes the filtering of Scottish folk ideas through a personal sieve, transforming them into abstract ideas; the Västerås Sinfonietta gives a pretty...
Scotland
Västerås Sinfonietta, Simon Crawford-Phillips
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[Grime's] two-part Elegiac Inflections includes the filtering of Scottish folk ideas through a personal sieve, transforming them into abstract ideas; the Västerås Sinfonietta gives a pretty...
About
Swedish-based, British conductor, Simon Crawford-Phillips, leads the award-winning Swedish chamber orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, on their new concept album, ‘Scotland’. The principal work is Felix Mendelssohn’s famous 3rd Symphony, the ‘Scottish’, coupled with two interesting contemporary works with strong bonds to Scotland: Helen Grime’s ‘Elegiac Inflections’, and Peter Maxwell-Davies’ ‘Strathclyde Concerto’ No. 10.
Contents and tracklist
- Västerås Sinfonietta
- Simon Crawford-Phillips
- Västerås Sinfonietta
- Simon Crawford-Phillips
- Västerås Sinfonietta
- Simon Crawford-Phillips
Awards and reviews
December 2023
[Grime's] two-part Elegiac Inflections includes the filtering of Scottish folk ideas through a personal sieve, transforming them into abstract ideas; the Västerås Sinfonietta gives a pretty good account of her challenging, Knussen-influenced score.
November 2023
The most significant item in this Scottishthemed collection is Helen Grime’s two-movement Elegiac Inflections for double wind quintet, commissioned by the Royal College of Music in 2005, of which this is the first recording.
