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Performance

VenueRoyal Albert Hall
Also: Elgar Room
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From17th July 2013
To17th July 2013
When19:30
PricesFrom £7.50. To £36.00.
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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  • Date of change: 18 Apr 13 - T393340184

Prom 8 - Britten, Lutoslawski & Thomas Ades

Prom 8

Work:: Prom 8 (S370)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Britten, Lutoslawski & Thomas Ades (T393340184)

Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens a programme of testimony and remembrance. Paul Watkins is the soloist in Lutoslawski's bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland. Thomas Ades conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of Lutoslawski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when Lubeck's Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War. Finish time: approx. 21:55
Performer Paul Watkins (Paul Watkins (cello)
Performer Christianne Stitijn (mezzo soprano)
Performer Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Company BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Ades

Listing:: L0446716205




Britten, Lutoslawski & Thomas Ades

Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens a programme of testimony and remembrance. Paul Watkins is the soloist in Lutoslawski's bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland. Thomas Ades conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of Lutoslawski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when Lubeck's Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War. Finish time: approx. 21:55

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