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London,
Saturday 21 August 2010
Britten Sinfonia returns to the BBC Proms in a programme including contemporary works based on the madrigals of Monteverdi and Gesualdo juxtaposed with the original music.
Glyndebourne: Stravinsky's Renard and Mavra
Lewes, East Sussex,
Tuesday 24 August to Friday 27 August 2010
Britten Sinfonia returns to Glyndebourne's Jerwood Studio, working with singers from the Jerwood Chorus Development Scheme. This year they perform two of Stravinsky's chamber operas: Renard and a new arrangement of Mavra.
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch 1
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,
Friday 15 October to Friday 22 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
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BBC Proms Saturday Matinee 3: I Fagiolini & Britten Sinfonia
London
21 August 2010
Britten Sinfonia returns to the BBC Proms in a programme including contemporary works based on the madrigals of Monteverdi and Gesualdo juxtaposed with the original music.
City of London Festival 2010
Mansion House, London
05 July 2010 7:30pm
Bach meets Brazil in this concert given by the outstanding pianist, Joanna MacGregor, and one of the UK’s most dynamic and musically inquisitive chamber orchestras, the Britten Sinfonia. This programme crosses the invisible divide between the classical and popular Brazilian music, and the concert is sure to sell out fast.
