Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean unlock musical memories at Kings Place

Lotte Betts-Dean, Brett Dean and Aurora Orchestra

Aurora Orchestra winds play Ravel

Von Eleanor Knight, 19 Januar 2026

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“Betts-Dean’s vocal command is impressive and her dramatic interpretation an absolute knock-out”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Kings Place: Hall One, London, am 17 Januar 2026

Ives, Memories

Copland, Simple Gifts

Adams, Shaker Loops: Shaking and Trembling

Radiohead, Harry Patch (In Memory Of)

Ives, The Unanswered Question

Weinberg, The Passenger: Marta’s aria

Couperin, Les Barricades mystérieuses (arr. Thomas Adès)

Shaw, Cant voi l'aube (Can't See the Dawn)

Boulanger, Versailles

Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet

Dean, Recollections: Locket

Kurtág, Kafka Fragments, Op.24 (Part 4)

Kurtág, Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie, Op.31b (2. Fassung)

Weill, Nannas Lied

Copland, Old American Songs: At the River

Drake, I Remember

Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzosopran

Aurora Orchestra

Brett Dean, Musikalische Leitung

Ein Land geht, die Musik bleibt: Brexit-Konzert in Brüssel

Jens Klier, 29th March

Altstaedt, Bostridge und das Aurora Orchestra nehmen den Brexit zum Anlass für ein nachdenkliches, starkes Konzert-Statement.

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Grotesk-Gruber und Klassiker vom Aurora Orchestra in Köln

Jens Klier, 9th September

Die Musiker beeindrucken wieder einmal mit ihrer Lebendigkeit und Interaktion, auch wenn ihre Frankenstein-Version ein wenig zu sehr in Klamauk ausartet.

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Pastorale in Köln: Nicholas Collon und das Aurora Orchestra

Jens Klier, 1st October

Collon und das Aurora Orchestra lieferten ein farbenreiches Programm mit Sinn und Elan, das wunschgemäß glücklich machte.

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Echoes of Youth from the Aurora principals at Kings Place

Mark Valencia, 19th March

Billed under the heading ‘Echoes of Youth’, this Kings Place programme is an attractive ragbag of unlikely bedfellows.

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Aurora dazzle in Edinburgh International Festival debut

Simon Thompson, 18th August

Aurora Orchestra turn Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony inside out to exhilarating effect in a dazzling performance in their Scottish debut. Abel Selaocoe’s Four Spirits, on the other hand, has surface shine but not much substance.

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Aurora Orchestra pulls off another dramatic performance from memory

Nick Boston, 17th August

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra, together with Frantic Assembly, present an illuminating analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, followed by a blistering account of the work from memory.

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.