The British Project is composed of four separate performances by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its young conductor, Mirga Gra?inyte-Tyla, issued as digital-only single performances by the Deutsche Grammophon label during the pandemic and compiled into a single album in 2021. It's not clear whether the whole thing was in the performers' sights at the beginning, but it may as well have been; it's a coherent and effective program. With Elgar's lovely Sospiri, Op. 70, as a kind of preamble, Gra?inyte-Tyla ...
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The British Project is composed of four separate performances by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its young conductor, Mirga Gra?inyte-Tyla, issued as digital-only single performances by the Deutsche Grammophon label during the pandemic and compiled into a single album in 2021. It's not clear whether the whole thing was in the performers' sights at the beginning, but it may as well have been; it's a coherent and effective program. With Elgar's lovely Sospiri, Op. 70, as a kind of preamble, Gra?inyte-Tyla launches into Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20. This work is not exactly obscure, but it's a youthful piece much less often heard than its cousin, the War Requiem, Op. 66. The all-orchestral work was composed in 1939 under a commission from the Japanese government, which was not pleased with the results, but its uneasy mood seems newly relevant, and Gra?inyte-Tyla catches Britten's ambitions. She gives a colorful performance of Walton's Symphonic Suite from Troilus and Cressida....
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