Great Britten
After a busy tour of the Netherlands Britten Sinfonia's 'Britten in America' programme has hit UK shores. Four concerts happened over the weekend, in Cambridge, Bradford on Avon, Dartington and London. This tour is the final stage of Nico Muhly's residency with Britten Sinfonia and is the premiere tour of his new piece, Impossible Things, for violinist Pekka Kuusisto, tenor Mark Padmore and strings.
"Even by the Britten Sinfonia’s eclectic standards, this programme is a wacky affair — everything from 330-year-old Purcell fantasias to American music with the dots scarcely dry on the staves. Fittingly it is led by one of the wackiest young performers on the circuit: the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto."
Richard Morrison, T2, The Times.
To read the full review from The Times and other reviews as we recieve them, please click here.
The concert continues on to Cockermouth, Southampton and Norwich this week. Further details can be found here.
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Next Production
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.
