Proms Saturday Matinee 5: Camerata Nordica

31 Aug 2013, Cadogan Hall

15:00 Sat 31 Aug 2013 Next Event

Proms 2013 Proms Saturday Matinee 5: Camerata Nordica

15:00 Sat 31 Aug 2013 Cadogan Hall

Violinist Terje T酶nnesen and the Camerata Nordica perform Britten鈥檚 Lachrymae, Walton鈥檚 Sonata for strings and Tippett鈥檚 Little Music, and give the world premiere of Britten鈥檚 early Elegy for strings, written four years before the Simple Symphony.

Programme

- - Benjamin Britten
  - Simple Symphony(17 mins)
- - Michael Tippett
  - Little Music for Strings(11 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - Elegy for strings(8 mins)world premiere
  - Lachrymae(15 mins)
- - William Walton
  - Sonata for Strings(27 mins)

Performers

Catherine Bullock
viola
viola
Camerata Nordica
Proms debut artist
Proms debut artist
Terje T酶nnesen
violin/director, Proms debut artist
violin/director, Proms debut artist

Composers

About this event

The focus on Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries continues with the world premiere of his Elegy for strings. Written six years before the Simple Symphony, this eloquent early miniature is contrasted with works by Tippett and Walton in the Proms debut of Camerata Nordica.

Violinist Terje T酶nnesen directs the Swedish ensemble as well as viola player Catherine Bullock in Lachrymae, arranged for string orchestra by Britten in the last year of his life. Tippett鈥檚 Little Music for strings and Walton鈥檚 Sonata for strings, another 1970s arrangement of a 1940s work, complete an all-British string ensemble matinee.

There will be no interval

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