BCMG conducted by Oliver Knussen

photo by Adrian Burrows

BCMG Conducted by Oliver Knussen - Monday 25 January 2010, 7.30pm

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Helen Grime in conversation.

Programme:

Harrison Birtwistle	The World is Discovered
Peter Maxwell Davies	Leopardi Fragments
Luke Bedford	Good Dream She Has
Helen Grime	A Cold Spring
Alexander Goehr	The Deluge

Fast rewind. Half a century ago British music was being shaken up by three young Manchester-trained composers, and tonight we hear how. Peter Maxwell Davies, fresh back from studies in Rome, wrote a lustrous setting of poetic fragments by Giacomo Leopardi for two female voices and ensemble, following the example of Alexander Goehr in The Deluge, based on a description by Leonardo. Meanwhile, Harrison Birtwistle, impressed by a Picasso show at the Tate that showed the painter tackling the same subject in multifarious ways, created The World is Discovered.

But this is not all: we also hear how music in this country is being stirred again by new voices. Luke Bedford’s rapturous meditation on Paradise Lost, returns from two years ago, and Helen Grime offers a beautiful instrumental poem, which BCMG performed the world premiere of at Aldeburgh Festival in June 2009.

We will also be performing this programme at Wigmore Hall in London on Sunday 24 January 2010.

Contact Details

Mon 25th January 2010, 7:30pm

CBSO Centre - October 2010

Adv: £14 / £8 / £5 door: £15 / £9 / £6
Berkley Street, Birmingham
B1 2LF [map link]
Tel : 0121 767 4050

Mon 25th January 2010, 7:30pm

Wigmore Hall

36 Wigmore Street
W1U 2BP [map link]
Tel : 020 7935 2141