PREVIEW: Britten Sinfonia

Alice Coote

Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote will be joining Cambridge-based chamber orchestra Britten Sinfonia to perform an evening of music of Benjamin Britten and other English composers on Monday 19 November at West Road Concert Hall, Cambrige. The concert will also be performed at Wigmore Hall in London on Thursday 22 November. The conductor will be Richard Hetherington. 

 

Programme:

 

Purcell Rondeau from Abdelazer Suite  
Purcell arr. Nico Muhly Let the Night Perish (Job’s Curse)
Purcell arr. Stokowski Dido’s Lament
Tippett A Lament, from Divertimento on ‘Sellinger’s Round’
Handel Selection of arias from Alcina 
Britten Prelude and Fugue
Purcell ed. Britten Chacony in G minor
Tippett Little Music
Britten Phaedra

 

more details

Britten Sinfonia website

West Road Concert Hall programme