Concerts
BRITTEN & AMERICA WITH ELIZABETH WATTS
Britten Sinfonia members will be notified when this event opens for booking.
Bury St Edmunds
The Apex
19 May 2026 at 7:00pm
Norwich
The Halls
20 May 2026 at 7:00pm
Performers
- Elizabeth Watts
- soprano
- Oleg Shebeta-Dragan
- clarinet
- Britten Sinfonia
- Huw Watkins
- piano
- Zoë Beyers
- violin/director
Programme
- Britten
- Young Apollo
- Copland
- Clarinet Concerto
- Britten
- Les Illuminations
- Copland
- Appalachian Spring
Sensuous music with a bright sheen from Britten and Copland.
Britten's Young Apollo and Les Illuminations were written in Canada and America. Here, his setting of Rimbaud’s surrealist poetry is sung by acclaimed UK soprano, Elizabeth Watts. We also hear the sound of 1940s America in the works of Britten’s “very dear friend” and mentor in his bohemian New York circle, Aaron Copland.
