Love Symposium (Esther Yoo, Long Yu, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (CD)

Esther Yoo’s new recording explores musical thoughts on the theme of ‘love’, together with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Long Yu.

At the heart of the album sits Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade written after Plato’s Symposium, which was her New York Philharmonic debut piece that garnered great response. Around it short pieces including new arrangement of Mahler’s ‘Adagietto’, Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’ carries on the deep and varied conversation on love.

Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's "Symposium": I. Phaedrus – Pausanias. Lento – Allegro marcato
Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's "Symposium": II. Aristophanes. Allegretto
Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's "Symposium": III. Erixymachus. Presto
Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's "Symposium": IV. Agathon. Adagio
Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's "Symposium": V. Socrates – Alcibiades. Molto tenuto – Allegro molto vivace
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Mahler: Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam (Arr. Farrington for Chamber Ensemble)
Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12
Pasek, Paul: Never Enough (Arr. Farrington for Violin & Orchestra)