Performed by musicians from the BBC SSO, their compositions were judged by Julian Anderson.
His piece, Eden, succeeded in transforming the orchestra into a magnificent chiming carillon of sound when it opened the second half of the BBC SSO’s concert, conducted by Ilan Volkov, in Aberdeen’s Music Hall on Friday to launch a weekend of events surrounding the fourth biannual Music Prize – a collaborative enterprise between Aberdeen University and the BBC SSO, and supported by Sound, the north-east of Scotland’s contemporary music festival. This opening concert included a fervent Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan And Isolde, La Mort de Cléopâtre by Berlioz (with stunning Rumanian mezzo Ruxandra Donose) then an incomparable Sibelius Second Symphony.
