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Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England
Programme
Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz.68
James MacMillan – Í (A Meditation on Iona)
Benjamin Britten – Selection of Folk Songs
Percy Grainger – Molly on the Shore
Percy Grainger – Irish Tune from County Derry
Sándor Veress – Transylvanian Dance: Stomping Song
Traditional Danish – Sønderho Bridal Trilogy
James MacMillan – Three Scottish Songs
Jacqueline Shave – Machair to Myrrh
Performers
Ian Bostridge – tenor
Sir James MacMillan – Conductor
Britten Sinfonia
Programme Note
Ian Bostridge and Britten Sinfonia embark on a journey around Europe with folk-inspired chamber music from Bartók to Britten, including a new arrangement by Sir James MacMillan of his Three Scottish Songs.
Join a musical expedition across Europe, exploring folk-inspired chamber music from Scotland, Ireland, Romania and Denmark.
In his lifetime, Benjamin Britten produced over 60 arrangements of folk songs. Here Ian Bostridge sings four of the most evocative: O Waly, Waly, The Salley Gardens, Bonny at Morn, and She’s Like the Swallow. The concert also features the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Three Scottish Songs, new settings of three poems by the early 20th century Scottish poet William Soutar in a style based on traditional folk song. They will be heard with his 1996 work, Meditations on Iona, a musical portrait of the Scottish island where St Columba founded one of the oldest churches in Europe.
