Prom 08: Britten, Lutoslawski & Thomas Ades
Another chance to hear the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra at the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Proms in music by Britten and Lutoslawski, alongside the premiere of a new work by the conductor, Thomas Adès.
Another chance to hear the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra at the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Proms in music by Britten and Lutoslawski, alongside the premiere of a new work by the conductor, Thomas Adès
Presented by Katie Derham
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto
c. 2.50pm
Adès: Totentanz (world premiere)
Paul Watkins (cello)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès (condcutor)
Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens this programme of testimony and remembrance. Former Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ SO Principal Cellist Paul Watkins is the soloist in Lutoslawski's bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland.
Thomas Adès conducts the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of Lutoslawski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when Lübeck's Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War.
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Music Played
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Benjamin Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem
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Witold Lutosławski
Cello Concerto
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Witold Lutosławski
Sacher Variation
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Thomas Adès
Totentanz
Broadcast
- Sun 21 Jul 2013 14:00Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 3
