Summer Festivals well under way
With the 2009-10 season successfully completed our attention is turned to Festivals over the summer months. So far this year Britten Sinfonia has performed at Brighton, Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals at sell out performances. The Brighton Festival performance was an eventful start for Britten Sinfonia’s 2010 summer festival performances which had cancellations, calamities and forgotten suitcases but was still a great concert, you can read all the detail in a blog entry from May. You can read reviews of both the Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals concerts here.
Still to come this summer Britten Sinfonia are performing at the world famous BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festivals. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Britten Sinfonia and I Fagiolini in a performance of Monteverdi and Gesualdo madrigals alongside new works inspired by the madrigals at Cadogan Hall on 21 August, 3pm as part of the Proms Saturday Matinee series. Tickets are selling fast but on the day tickets will be available for £5 in the side gallery as is tradition for the Proms.
In another collaboration Britten Sinfonia will work with the Jerwood Chorus Development scheme to present a series of performances of Stravinsky’s chamber operas Renard and Mavra. It is free to attend the events on 24, 26 and 27 August but booking is recommended and are only available to ticket holders for performances on that day.
You can also see which festival performances the Britten Sinfonia administration staff will be heading to in a blog entry from June.
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Next Production
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch October
London, Norwich, Cambridge and Birmingham
06 - 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
