Britten Sinfonia

Night Music 2008

Mark Padmore

Mark Padmore

Mark Padmore tenor/director*
Maxim Rysanov viola
Jacqueline Shave leader/director

Stravinsky Fanfare for a New Theatre
Harrison Birtwistle Prologue
Britten Lachrymae
Handel 'Thus when the sun' and 'Total Eclipse' (Samson)
John Woolrich  Ulysses Awakes
Britten Nocturne*

Fêted British tenor Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia in a ravishing programme exploring the theme of night in this dramatically-treated performance. Fresh from his acclaimed realisation of Bach’s St John Passion, Mark Padmore performs this unique, unconducted interpretation of Britten’s Nocturne, while also beguiling us with two gems of arias from Handel’s Samson, intensely evocative settings of Milton’s glorious poetry, including the poignant meditation on Samson’s blindness, ‘Total Eclipse’. Viola wunderkind Maxim Rysanov takes the leading role in Britten’s interpretation of Dowland’s Lachrymae and John Woolrich’s Ulysses Awakes, a moving reworking of Monteverdi.
 
‘... one achingly beautiful stanza succeeds the other, and the purity of Padmore's delivery here is a thing of wonder.’
The Independent

In conversation 
Free pre-concert talk with Mark Padmore and Kate Kennedy focusing on the poetry and its musical setting. This talk is free, and will last for approximately 35 minutes.
Cambridge 7.00pm
Norwich 6.30pm (please book in Norwich)
London 6.15pm
Southampton 7.00pm
 
The London concert of this tour will be recorded fro broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Monday 3 November 2008.

Programme Notes (available from 16 October 2008 until 04 November 2008)

Concerts in Cambridge, Norwich and Southampton are supported by Orchestras Live
Concert in  London is supported by The Archer Charitable Trust

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