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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.20
Raymond Yiu – Symphony: BBC commission: world premiere
~ Interval ~
Carl Nielsen – Flute Concerto, FS 119
Leoš Janáček – Sinfonietta
Performers
Edward Gardner – Conductor
Andrew Watts – countertenor
Emily Beynon – flute
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Proms regular Edward Gardner continues this year’s Nielsen anniversary celebrations with the Flute Concerto - a work that expresses what Nielsen perceived as the instrument’s ‘Arcadian’ quality. This gentle, pastoral quality battles, however, with darker forces, characterfully symbolised by the bass trombone. Both Janáček’s Sinfonietta and Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem are also vivid expressions of contrast - in mood, texture and colour. The five movements of the Sinfonietta are all scored for a different - and sometimes unlikely - combination of instruments, while the three episodes in Britten’s elegiac Sinfonia da Requiem paint different stages of mourning, from grief, to anger and finally an uneasy acceptance.