Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Four works by leading composers are getting their premiere recordings on this album. That alone would recommend the release, if it was not also so well planned and enjoyable as a collection.Interlocking themes hold this selection of evocative orchestral scores together. Three of the four are suites derived from operas, venturing into mind zones loosely defined as “beyond”, and two leave time and space behind to explore the stars and the world between the living and the dead.The album opens with the Three-Piece Suite from Thomas Adès’s Powder her Face. The opera is based on the notorious escapades of the Duchess of Argyll and the louche atmosphere is captured in flamboyant waltzes and foxtrots, showcasing Adès’s eclectic brilliance.With Jonathan Dove’s Stargazer, a concerto for trombone and orchestra, the music blasts off into the cosmos. Against a glittering orchestral background the solo trombonist, Peter Moore, is freed from the instrument’s usual heavyweight pronouncements to be dexterous and airborne — a translucent concerto that should appeal widely.The other two works — Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice Suite and Nico Muhly’s Liar Suite from Marnie — are both derived from American operas. Aucoin’s modern-day take on Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired music of elemental power, which must have resonated powerfully during its 2021 performance in the huge Metropolitan Opera, while Muhly’s probing of a mind on edge is spellbinding. All get fine performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Timothy Redmond.★★★★☆‘Beyond’ is released by Orchid Classics
