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| When: | |
Sunday 25 January 2009 at 19:30 |
| Where: | |
CBSO Centre, Birmingham |
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| Concert Title: | |
BCMG Conducted by Benjamin |
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| Performers: | |
George Benjamin, conductor Claire Booth, soprano Birmingham Contemporary Music Group |
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| Programme : | | Oliver Knussen |
| 1: | | 2 Organa, Op 27 |
| Luigi Dallapiccola | |
| 2: | | Piccola musica notturna |
| 3: | | Cinque Frammenti di Saffo |
| Francesco Antonioni | |
| 4: | | Ballata |
| Luigi Dallapiccola | |
| 5: | | Tre Laudi |
| George Benjamin | |
| 6: | | 3 Inventions for Chamber Orchestra |
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| Note: | |
Come early at 6.30pm for a free pre-concert talk with Francesco Antonioni. Luigi Dallapiccola lived through fascism in Italy to gain a voice of purity and power—a voice conditioned by his admiration for Schoenberg, Berg and Webern but also unmistakeably Italian in its grace and lyrical intensity. His settings of Sappho fragments and of medieval laudi (spiritual songs) come from the fascist years, while his little night music takes us into a later period, still watchful. The new piece by one of Dallapiccola’s musical descendants, Francesco Antonioni, also has ancient material—from a song by the fourteenth-century Florentine composer Francesco Landini—brought into the modern world. Framing all this come major works by Oliver Knussen and George Benjamin. - Paul Griffiths. BCMG is one of the world’s leading classical new music ensembles and was formed by players from the CBSO. The group is devoted to the performance of new music and has commissioned and performed over 100 world premieres of new works by today’s leading composers. |
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£15 (£9 Concessions, £6 under 16s, £1 off for advance purchases) - Tickets available online from 0121 767 4050 |
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| Venue: | |
CBSO Centre Berkley Street Birmingham West Midlands B1 2LF England |
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information@cbso.co.uk |
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0121 616 6500 |
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0121 616 6518 |
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