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Brighton Dome Concert Hall
Church Street
Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
BN1 1UD
England
Tickets
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Programme
Harrison Birtwistle – The Triumph of Time
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite, 1919
Erik Satie – Two Gymnopédies
Performers
Joanna MacGregor – Conductor
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
A compelling journey, through Time’s Winter into Spring’s Awakening.
In a creative career that lasted more than 50 years, the great English composer Harrison Birtwistle showed a deep affinity for folklore, the seasons and the soil: he wrote of Gawain’s journey and the ancient landscape of Silbury Hill, and chose to live near Stonehenge. His breakthrough came in 1972 with the epic The Triumph of Time, hinting at a connection with Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s apocryphal etching of the same name, with its wagons of Time, Death and Fame. The idea of a cryptic, cyclical procession was to return often in Birtwistle’s music, with his favourite instruments – harp, cor anglais, soprano saxophone – narrating. Don’t miss a rare chance to hear this gripping masterpiece, the first-ever in Brighton.
After Time’s triumph, Debussy’s transparent, subtle orchestrations of Satie’s timeless Gymnopédies, coaxing spring’s rebirth. Stravinsky’s celebrated Firebird Suite blazes with a different folklore, that of the mythical bird whose feathers glitter and flicker like flames.
