Cadogan Hall5 Sloane Terrace, London, Greater London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
Performers
| Dame Sarah Connolly | Mezzo-soprano |
| Britten Sinfonia | |
| Sian Edwards | Conductor |
Two great British works for voice and string
orchestra appear in the second Proms Saturday
Matinee, which focuses on Britten and his peers.
Sarah Connolly joins conductor Sian Edwards
and the Britten Sinfonia in Britten’s searing final
vocal work, Phaedra, and a rare performance
of Lennox Berkeley’s intensely felt Four Poems of
St Teresa of Avila, premiered by Kathleen Ferrier
in 1948. In addition to featuring classics of the
string orchestra repertoire in Holst’s St Paul’s
Suite and Tippett’s Fantasia
concertante on a Theme
of Corelli, the programme
includes Britten’s inventive
Prelude and Fugue for
18-part string orchestra.Tickets £10 - £12.
orchestra appear in the second Proms Saturday
Matinee, which focuses on Britten and his peers.
Sarah Connolly joins conductor Sian Edwards
and the Britten Sinfonia in Britten’s searing final
vocal work, Phaedra, and a rare performance
of Lennox Berkeley’s intensely felt Four Poems of
St Teresa of Avila, premiered by Kathleen Ferrier
in 1948. In addition to featuring classics of the
string orchestra repertoire in Holst’s St Paul’s
Suite and Tippett’s Fantasia
concertante on a Theme
of Corelli, the programme
includes Britten’s inventive
Prelude and Fugue for
18-part string orchestra.Tickets £10 - £12.
