The main work in today's programme, Harmonielehre (1985), was composed after a creative crisis in the composer's life, and its three movements were inspired respectively by a dream about a flying ocean tanker, by the Arthurian legend of King Anfortas, and by the medieval theologian Meister Eckhardt. Alwynne Pritchard introduces the music in conversation with the composer.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
China Gates
Alan Feinberg (piano) Harmonielehre San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart