Work: Tema Sacher| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Tuesday 18-Jun-13 03:00pm |
 Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, AldeburghChamber Music Century Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Tuesday 18-Jun-13 03:00pm Chamber Music Century Charlotte Bray new work for mezzo soprano and ensemble (world premiere)
And Colin Matthews’ arrangements of music by Berg and Debussy Guest Artistic Associate Colin Matthews crafts an ingenious programme that mines the riches of the last hundred years of chamber music repertoire, tracing an elegant arch from the turbulent opening years of the twentieth century to the present day and back again. Framed by tiny masterpieces for a solo instrument, this is a rich tapestry, weaving into its fabric the distilled fervour of Berg and Webern, Knussen and Woolrich’s lyricism, and Stravinsky’s brittle, brilliant pastiches. Matthews’ own music and his arrangements of others takes its place here, as does Britten – some of his earliest chamber music to his last instrumental work. Nods also to Aldeburgh Artistic directors of the past and music from a composer who was a regular visitor and significant presence – Hans Werner Henze. A seamless sequence that seems to shape a new composition from many pre-constructed fragments – the familiar, the re-imagined and the unusual sharing an intimate space without ever jarring or jostling for attention – this is a modernist montage that startles, reveals and illuminates. | ||
