Britten Sinfonia

Pre-Concert Talks Available Online

In addition to our regular SinfoniaCast series, we are happy to announce that you will now be able to hear recordings of most of our pre-concert talks. To launch this, we have made available recordings of interviews from the Norwich dates of our Eight Seasons and Dialogues concerts.

Bob Shingleton, a well respected blogger, talks violins, seasons, and what it takes to get a Canadian audience to their feet with Tom. The Eight Seasons concert in Norwich brought the ever popular Four Seasons into a new light when interspersed with Piazzolla’s bold reflection on Vivaldi’s work. Argentinean composer, Piazzolla has created a Four Seasons of tango bars and late night jazz clubs that is passionate and thrilling. To hear the pre-concert talk from this programme click here.

In the Dialogues talk, we hear why the listener shouldn’t feel left out when it comes to Elliott Carter’s music, and Pierre-Laurent’s animated descriptions shed new light on an interesting repertoire. The Dialogues concerts earlier in November had a programme of works by Elliot Carter and Haydn and the masterful pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard demonstrated these two composers and their skill in creating contrapuntal lines of balance and clarity. To hear the pre-concert talk from this programme click here.

You can enjoy all previous podcasts here.

Calendar

May 2012

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Brighton Festival - King Priam

Brighton
27 May 2012

‘I have to sing songs for those who can’t sing for themselves. Those songs come from the torments and horrors that have happened. I can’t lose faith in humanity.’ Sir Michael Tippett

Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
01 May 2012 1:00pm

Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.