Britten Sinfonia at Lunch - Jan 2009

Thu 22 Jan 2009 1:00pm at Town Hall

A concert focussing on Oliver Knussen, featuring his poignant and touching Songs without Voices, alongside a new work by Ryan Wigglesworth who has been greatly influenced by Knussen. The programme ends with Schoenberg’s witty and riotous arrangement of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz. _“To me, real music is real music when you’re not sitting around thinking it’s music – it actually takes you over.” _*Knussen*

£7.50. 60plus/full-time students/under 16s/unwaged: £5

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Jacqueline Shave violin/director

Britten Phantasy Quartet 15’
Ryan Wigglesworth New Work 10’ (world première tour)
Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices 11’
Johann Strauss Emperor Waltz 12’
arr. Schoenberg

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