Britten Sinfonia: Kaleidoscopes
Friday 3rd October 2014
Venue: West Road Concert Hall
Category: Gigs & Live Music
Price Info: £30, £25, £15, £5
Time Info: 19:30
Nicholas Daniel oboe/director
Jacqueline Shave violin/director
Mozart Adagio for cor anglais and string trio, K580a
Gyorgy Kurtag arr. Thomas Adès In Memoriam Andras Mihaly
Lutosławski Preludes and Fugue
Tavener Kaleidoscopes
John Tavener’s theatrical oboe concerto, Kaleidoscopes, written for and premiered by Britten Sinfonia and Nicholas Daniel in 2006, is a musical mosaic, featuring four string quartets and percussion. Tavener’s greatest musical hero, Mozart opens the programme with his beautifully poignant Adagio and the programme is completed by Lutoslawski’s thrilling and virtuosic Preludes and Fugue and an arrangement by Thomas Adès of Kurtag’s spacial memorial to Andras Mihaly with musicians placed around the auditorium.
In Conversation - 6.30pm
Nicholas Daniel and Jacqueline Shave discuss tonight's programme.
Supported by the Friends of Britten Sinfonia.
http://www.brittensinfonia.com/concerts/events/view/kaleidoscopes
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