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World premiere of Josephine Stephenson's Une Saison en Enfer lights up Aurora at Wigmore Hall

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“a bewitching combination of dissonance and sweet-toned cantabile”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 4 December 2019
Britten, Les Illuminations, for soprano or tenor and strings, Op.18
Stephenson, Une Saison en enfer
Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten, Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, song cycle, Op.31
Ailish Tynan, Soprano
Allan Clayton, Tenor
Robert Murray, Tenor
Christopher Parkes, French horn
Aurora Orchestra
Brett Dean, Conductor
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