Britten Birthday Concert
Live from the Wigmore Hall, a Britten birthday concert, featuring works by Purcell, Muhly, Tippett, Handel and Britten himself. With the Britten Sinfonia and mezzo Alice Coote.
Live from the WigmoreHall, London
Presented by Katie Derham
Britten Birthday Concert, live from Wigmore Hall, featuring works by Purcell, Muhly, Tippett, Handel and Britten himself. Britten Sinfonia is joined by mezzo Alice Coote
Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazer Suite
Purcell arr. Muhly: Let the night perish (Job's Curse)
Purcell arr. Stokowski: Dido's Lament from 'Dido and Aeneas'
Tippett: Lament from Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round'
8.00 Interval
8.20
Handel: Selection of arias from Alcina
Britten: Prelude and Fugue, Op.29
Purcell arr. Britten: Chacony in G minor
Tippett: Little Music for strings
Britten: Phaedra, Op.93
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Britten Sinfonia
Jaqueline Shave (director)
Richard Hetherington (conductor, Phaedra)
For what would have been the composer's 99th birthday, acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote joins Britten Sinfonia in a celebration of English music by, influential to and connected with Benjamin Britten.
Coote performs a selection of arias from Handel's mystical opera, Alcina, as well as Britten's late cantata Phaedra - inspired by Handel's dramatic cantatas and cast for devastatingly economical forces.
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Henry Purcell
Abdelazer, or The Moor's revenge - incidental music Z.570
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Henry Purcell
Let the night perish (Job's curse) Z.191 for soprano, bass and continuo
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas - opera in 3 acts Z.626
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Michael Tippett
Divertimento on Sellinger's round for chamber orchestra
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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George Frideric Handel
Alcina - opera in 3 acts
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Alice COOTE - Mezzo-soprano Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Benjamin Britten
Prelude and fugue Op.29 for 18-part string orchestra
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Henry Purcell
Chacony (Z.730) in G minor, arr. Britten for string orchestra
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Michael Tippett
Little music for string orchestra
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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Benjamin Britten
Phaedra - cantata Op.93 for mezzo-soprano, str, perc, cello and hpcd
Conductor: Jacqueline SHAVE Performer: Alice COOTE - Mezzo-soprano Performer: Britten Sinfonia
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George Frideric Handel
Suite no. 5 in E major HWV.430 for keyboard - 1720
Performer: Sviatoslav RICHTER - Piano
- EMI.
- 5693372.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 4 in C sharp minor BWV.849
Performer: Sviatoslav RICHTER - Piano
- RCA.
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