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Proms Saturday Matinee 4: English Chamber Orchestra

Clemency Burton-Hill presents a Prom featuring the English Chamber Orchestra. With Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, plus works by Purcell and Lutoslawski.

With Penny Gore.

Britten 100: The English Chamber Orchestra performs two works written for the tenor Peter Pears, including Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Plus a set of variations by multiple composers which marked the Queen's coronation in 1953.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at Cadogan Hall, London.

Purcell, arr. Britten: Chacony
Lutoslawski: Paroles tiss茅es
Berkeley, Britten, Oldham, Searle, Tippett & Walton: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger's Round)
Tansy Davies & John Woolrich: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger's Round) - new variations (大象传媒 commission: world premiere)
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Ben Johnson (tenor)
Richard Watkins (horn)
English Chamber Orchestra
Paul Watkins (conductor)

To mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten, the English Chamber Orchestra focus on his evocative Serenade, together with one of his Purcell arrangments. The other two works in the programme are a set of songs which Lutoslawski composed for Peter Pears, and a set of Variations written collectively for the 1953 coronation. Britten contributed one variation, and the other composers were Lennox Bereley, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Michael Tippett and William Walton. For this performance there are two special new additions to the set, by Tansy Davies and John Woolrich.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Aug 2013 14:00