Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4 2008-09

Caroline Dearnley
Nicholas Daniel oboe/cor anglais
Jacqueline Shave violin/director
Thomas Gould violin
Martin Outram viola
Clare Finnimore viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Ben Chappell cello
Purcell ed. Britten Chacony in G minor
Adam Walacinski Little Music of Autumn (UK première tour)
John Woolrich Quiddities
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
For the final concert in our lunchtime series, Britten Sinfonia draws on a programme devised by John Woolrich. Woolrich’s evocative Quiddities – written for Nicholas Daniel and Britten Sinfonia in 2005 – is set alongside a new work from one of Poland’s finest composers Adam Walacinski. Chacony is perhaps the best known of Britten’s Purcell editions, and there is also a chance to hear Schoenberg’s beautiful Verklärte Nacht at its most transparent and delicate in the original string sextet version.
Dates
Krakow
Sunday 08 March
12.00pm
Box Office: +48 (12) 429 13 45
Cambridge
Tuesday 10 March
1.00pm
Box Office: 01223 357851
London
Wednesday 11 March
1.00pm
Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Birmingham
Thursday 12 March
1.00pm
Box Office: 0121 780 3333
Norwich
Friday 13 March
1.00pm
Box Office: 01603 630000
