成人快手

Proms 2024
25 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2015 Prom 54: Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen & Jan谩膷ek

Prom 54
Prom 54: Britten, Raymond Yiu, Nielsen & Jan谩膷ek
19:30 Tue 25 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall
Emily Beynon is the soloist in Nielsen鈥檚 Flute Concerto, part of a wide-ranging programme including Britten鈥檚 'Sinfonia da Requiem' and a world premiere by Raymond Yiu.
Emily Beynon is the soloist in Nielsen鈥檚 Flute Concerto, part of a wide-ranging programme including Britten鈥檚 'Sinfonia da Requiem' and a world premiere by Raymond Yiu.

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Proms regular Edward Gardner continues this year鈥檚 Nielsen anniversary celebrations with the Flute Concerto 鈥 a work that expresses what Nielsen perceived as the instrument鈥檚 鈥楢rcadian鈥 quality. This gentle, pastoral quality battles, however, with darker forces, characterfully symbolised by the bass trombone. Both Jan谩膷ek鈥檚 Sinfonietta and Britten鈥檚 Sinfonia da Requiem are also vivid expressions of contrast 鈥 in mood, texture and colour. The five movements of the Sinfonietta are all scored for a different 鈥 and sometimes unlikely 鈥 combination of instruments, while the three episodes in Britten鈥檚 elegiac Sinfonia da Requiem paint different stages of mourning, from grief, to anger and finally an uneasy acceptance. Raymond Yiu's 成人快手 commission is a symphony which features the amazing countertenor voice of Andrew Watts, singing texts by Walt Whitman, Constantine Cavafy,Thom Gunn and John Donne on memories of love and loss.

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