MOZART'S SINFONIA CONCERTANTE AND HAYDN'S SYMPHONY NO. 8
Booking for the Norwich performance: Priority Booking for Britten Sinfonia Members opens on Friday 13 November 10am and for E-list Subscribers on Monday 16 November 10am. General Booking opens on Tuesday 17 November 10am. The Saffron Walden date is already on general sale.
Performers
- Britten Sinfonia
- Zoë Beyers
- violin / director
- Sascha Bota
- viola
Programme
- Haydn
- Symphony No 8 ‘Le Soir’
- Mozart
- Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra
- Schoenberg
- Verklärte Nacht
A chance to see Britten Sinfonia in its signature form – unconducted and with the dynamism and dedication of the players on full display.
Mozart’s duo concerto is one of his grandest, fusing emotional depth and the playful sparring of a pair of soloists.
The last part of Haydn’s time-of-day triptych of symphonies – morning, midday, evening – mixes the collective virtuosity of the early Baroque concerto grosso with the wit and panache of his later symphonies and features a storm that echoes Vivaldi at his most pictorial.
Schoenberg was eventually to take music into the modern age, but his early works belong to the Romantic era. His poetry-inspired masterpiece is fuelled by passion, tenderness and is soaked in gorgeous string textures and harmonies. The subject matter sounds Wagnerian, and so does much of the music – a sumptuous nighttime instrumental mini-drama.