Suite on English Folk Tunes
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Symphony No. 2
Brahms as Brahms wished it to be heard: Sir Mark Elder joins Britten Sinfonia for the second instalment of their Brahms Symphony Cycle, paired with Mahler songs and Britten’s last completed orchestral work.
Sir Mark Elder conducts Brahms’s radiant and bucolic 2nd symphony, in the second year of an acclaimed four-year symphony cycle. The cycle borrows from the spirit of early performances of the works by performing them with the musical forces that Brahms intended, to ‘exhilarating’ effect (The Times). The concert also traces a poetic line from Brahms’s symphonic Romanticism to more intimate evocations of poetry, love and nature in Mahler’s emotionally charged Songs for a Wayfarer, and Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes, the composer’s last completed orchestral work.
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Download the programme notes for free here.
In Conversation – 6.30pm, Saffron Hall
Sir Mark Elder discusses tonight’s programme with Dr Kate Kennedy in this pre-concert talk.
In Conversation – 6.30pm, Theatre Royal, Norwich
Sir Mark Elder discusses tonight’s programme with Roger Rowe in this pre-concert talk.
"Naturally Britten Sinfonia exhibited a peerless command of the composer’s music."
Read More"The closing Allegro had plenty of impetus without becoming frantic, and the coda, capped by some athletic and jubilant trumpet playing, was terrific. Hugo Wolf once said “Brahms cannot exult”. He should have heard this."
Read More"The gracious interpretation of Brahms’s Second Symphony had all the advantages of poetic phrasing without any romantic overstatement."
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