Sound Unwrapped: City of London Sinfonia and Bishi at Kings Place, London on Sunday 29th October 2023

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Sound Unwrapped: City of London Sinfonia and Bishi

Part of the CLS Season 2023-24

Add to my Calendar 29-10-2023 18:00 29-10-2023 20:00 36 Sound Unwrapped: City of London Sinfonia and Bishi Join us for our Kings Place debut as part of their Sounds Unwrapped Series, where we creatively explore the acoustic possibilities of Kings Place’s elegant main auditorium, Hall One, through our signature informal performance style. Curated in collaboration with London-born, internationally renowned singer-songwriter and sitarist BISHI, this concert explores the glorious sonic architecture of Kings Place through pieces that span the centuries from Purcell to Edward Finnis, from Debussy to Max Richter. Enjoy pieces for solo instruments and chamber groups, and the songs ‘Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep’ and ‘The Good Immigrant’ from BISHI’s third album, Let My Country Awake. The performance culminates with Terry Riley’s classic work of togetherness, In C, which unites BISHI’s voice and instrumentals and City of London Sinfonia’s musicians.  Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England

Sunday 29th October 2023
6:00 PM

Programme

Claude Debussy – Syrinx
Edmund Finnis – Aloysius
Igor Stravinsky – Three pieces for solo clarinet
Bishi Bhattacharya – Do not stand at my grave and weep
Bishi Bhattacharya – The Good Immigrant
Elena Kats-Chernin – Fast Blue Village 2
Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op.49: Pan
Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op.49: Phaeton
Max Richter – On the Nature of Daylight
Henry Purcell – Fantasia a 4 in C minor, Z.738
Terry Riley – In C

Performers

Bishi Bhattacharya – voice
Alexandra Wood – violin

City of London Sinfonia

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Programme Note

Join us for our Kings Place debut as part of their Sounds Unwrapped Series, where we creatively explore the acoustic possibilities of Kings Place’s elegant main auditorium, Hall One, through our signature informal performance style.

Curated in collaboration with London-born, internationally renowned singer-songwriter and sitarist BISHI, this concert explores the glorious sonic architecture of Kings Place through pieces that span the centuries from Purcell to Edward Finnis, from Debussy to Max Richter. Enjoy pieces for solo instruments and chamber groups, and the songs ‘Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep’ and ‘The Good Immigrant’ from BISHI’s third album, Let My Country Awake.

The performance culminates with Terry Riley’s classic work of togetherness, In C, which unites BISHI’s voice and instrumentals and City of London Sinfonia’s musicians.

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