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Britten Sinfonia at Lunch - Jan 2009
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Thu 22 Jan Town Hall

A concert focussing on Oliver Knussen, featuring his poignant and touching Songs without Voices, alongside a new work by Ryan Wigglesworth who has been greatly influenced by Knussen. The programme ends with Schoenberg’s witty and riotous arrangement of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz. _“To me, real music is real music when you’re not sitting around thinking it’s music - it actually takes you over.”_ *Knussen*
*Ryan Wigglesworth* conductor *Jacqueline Shave* violin/director
*Oliver Knussen* Songs without Voices 11’ *Britten* Phantasy Quartet 15’ *Ryan Wigglesworth* New Work 10’ (world première tour) *Johann Strauss* Emperor Waltz 12’ arr. Schoenberg
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch - Feb 2009
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Thu 19 Feb 2009 Town Hall

Thomas Adès’ Court Studies from his highlyacclaimed and popular opera The Tempest are set alongside the music of the young composer Richard Harrold, who studied at the Royal Academy of Music. A French theme permeates the rest of the programme with Debussy’s Cello Sonata and Fauré’s Piano Trio, a late masterpiece full of lyrical energy and exuberance, performed by the celebrated young pianist Cédric Tiberghien with members of Britten Sinfonia. ‘... the fact that it [Britten Sinfonia] fills houses almost everywhere testifies to the loyalty it has built up.’ _The Independent_
*Jacqueline Shave* violin *Caroline Dearnley* cello *Joy Farrall* clarinet *Cédric Tiberghien* piano
*Debussy* Sonata for Cello and Piano *Richard Harrold* New Work (world première tour) *Thomas Adès* Court Studies from The Tempest *Fauré* Piano Trio
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch - March 2009
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Thu 12 Mar 2009 Town Hall

For the final concert in our lunchtime series, Britten Sinfonia draws on a programme devised by John Woolrich. Woolrich’s evocative Quiddities • written for Nicholas Daniel and Britten Sinfonia in 2005 • is set alongside a new work from one of Poland’s hottest young composers Pawel Mykietyn. Chacony is perhaps the best known of Britten’s Purcell editions, and there is also a chance to hear Schoenberg’s beautiful Verklärte Nacht at its most transparent and delicate in the original string sextet version.
*Jacqueline Shave* violin/director *Thomas Gould* violin *Martin Outram* viola *Clare Finnimore* viola *Caroline Dearnley* cello *Ben Chappell* cello *Nicholas Daniel* oboe/cor anglais
*Purcell ed. Britten* Chacony in G minor *Paweł Mykietyn* New Work (world première tour) *John Woolrich* Quiddities *Schoenberg* Verklärte Nacht