2. October 2024
New recording with Omer Meir Wellber (October 2024)
On 4 October, a new recording with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and pianist Jonathan Biss will be released by Orchid Classic. The recording combines Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Sally Beamish’s “City Stanzas”, which was inspired by Beethoven’s piano concerto but also by Jonathan Biss’ virtuoso playing.
Further information on the recording as well as texts by Jonathan Biss and Sally Beamish on the pieces can be found at Orchid Classics.
Composer Sally Beamish and conductor Omer Meir Wellber already know each other from the BBC video conversation series The Music Room, which was created by Wellber in 2020 and focused on Beethoven’s nine symphonies. All episodes can be watched here.
nations come together in London and a wide variety of languages are spoken on the streets. At the same time, London is also the cultural capital of Europe with a rich and lively music scene. In the evenings, people come together at the opera, in the concert halls, but also in the many private salons and theatres. You can hear new music by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giuseppe Matteo Alberti. These cultural highlights were widely reported in the first daily newspapers of the time, which did not go unnoticed abroad and attracted even more musicians and composers to London. For this is the story of the foreign masters. London was then, as it is today, a melting pot of the European cultural scene. Anyone who thought highly of themselves, or who – to put it bluntly: wanted to earn money – went to London and presented their music there.