Winter Remembered at Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon on Tuesday 2nd April 2019

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Winter Remembered

Add to my Calendar 02-04-2019 19:30 02-04-2019 21:30 36 Winter Remembered Two otherworldly, heart-stopping slow movements for strings – the first simply dying away, after one of the most shocking (and perhaps heartbreaking) dissonances ever written; the other resolved (thankfully) with brisk counterpoint – are enclosed by the works of two of this country’s most productive composers. David Matthews – once Benjamin Britten’s associate – gets us underway with a wonderful concertino for viola and strings partly inspired by memories of Schubert’s song-cycle Winterreise, this again closes quietly. And we end with the twenty-three-year-old Britten’s startlingly precocious – and thoroughly entertaining – tribute to his teacher, Frank Bridge. Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stratford Playhouse
14 Rother Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6LU
England

Tuesday 2nd April 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

David Matthews – Winter remembered
Benjamin Britten – Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.10

Performers

Kenneth Woods – Conductor
Carmen Flores – viola

Orchestra of the Swan

Programme Note

Two otherworldly, heart-stopping slow movements for strings – the first simply dying away, after one of the most shocking (and perhaps heartbreaking) dissonances ever written; the other resolved (thankfully) with brisk counterpoint – are enclosed by the works of two of this country’s most productive composers. David Matthews – once Benjamin Britten’s associate – gets us underway with a wonderful concertino for viola and strings partly inspired by memories of Schubert’s song-cycle Winterreise, this again closes quietly. And we end with the twenty-three-year-old Britten’s startlingly precocious – and thoroughly entertaining – tribute to his teacher, Frank Bridge.

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