Event Details
BBC SSO Thursday Night Series Manze & The Best of British
City Halls : Grand Hall
If this invigorating programme by Andrew Manze and the BBC SSO is a sign of things to come… refreshing times lie ahead. The programme was a work of art.The Scotsman
It’s amazing that Henry Purcell’s music isn’t more often programmed with composers like Britten and Vaughan Williams, considering the huge influence he had on 20th century English music. In this programme, Andrew Manze has arranged and edited three of Purcell’s wonderful string pieces to provide a fascinating context for Britten’s Cello Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Sixth Symphony.
The fine German cellist Alban Gerhardt returns to the BBC SSO to play Britten’s dark, brooding symphony-concerto, written for the great Rostropovich. Vaughan Williams always rejected any suggestion that his E minor symphony composed at the end of the Second World War, had any specific ‘meaning’, but the remote desolation of its closing pages tells its own story.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Andrew Manze in conversation about British, and Britten-ish, music.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert):
Alban Gerhardt plays Britten’s Suite No.1 for solo cello, Op.72.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00p79gy
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Tickets: £23, £19, £16, £10
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Featuring:
Works:
Purcell - Fantasia upon one note (orch. Manze)
Purcell - Pavan in B flat major (orch. Manze)
Purcell - Chacony in G minor (orch. Manze)
Britten - Cello Symphony
Purcell - In nomine (in seven parts)
