| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Nov-2012 Canongate Kirk | Calton Consort: Translated Daughters |
 From the altar of their customary home in Edinburgh’s 1691 Canongate Kirk, Calton Consort presented an a cappella concert enigmatically entitled “Translated Daughters”. The enigma dissolved upon hearing W.H. Auden’s text for Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia. It features the arresting couplet: “Translated Daughter, come down and startle / Composing mortals with immortal fire.” As though the transmission of musical inspiration from Heaven to Earth were not difficult enough, Britten experienced his own earthbound obstacles.Read full review... | |
| 16-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 43: Two wrongs don't make a right |
 The programme read a little like a musical version of Kim's Game: not one but two full-scale symphonies, the same number of prefatory pieces, and then a piano concerto to boot: a test for the audience as well as the orchestra. The principal connexion between the works – apart from their contemporaneity – was the celebrated conductor, Serge Koussevitsky. Not only had he premièred Bax's Second Symphony and Prokofiev's Fourth (which he also commissioned), he was a keen champion of Copland's music too.Read full review... | |
