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Cambridge, London, Norwich, Birmingham,
Wednesday 06 October to Friday 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
MacMillan conducts MacMillan
Norwich, London, Cambridge, Birmingham, Chelmsford,
Friday 15 October to Sunday 24 October 2010
Since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of 18 Nicholas Daniel has developed a long and distinguished career as one of the foremost exponents of the oboe. In this concert Nicholas performs James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto written especially for him and Britten Sinfonia. The rest of the concert features Beethoven’s vigorous Symphony No. 2 and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, a powerful reaction to the 1945 bombing of
Music of Life - Composers' Workshop 2010
London,
Saturday 16 October 2010
Britten Sinfonia joins forces with the Music of Life Foundation for a Composers' Workshop in London, led by James MacMillan.
These New Puritans
London,
Saturday 23 October 2010
A special performance of These New Puritans recent, breathtaking album Hidden (2010) which sees the band working with Britten Sinfonia to realize the record’s cinematic textures and ambitious arrangements.
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Britten Sinfonia At Lunch October
London, Norwich, Cambridge and Birmingham
06 - 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
