Monday
23 June 2008 7.30pm
Aldeburgh
Festival Aldeburgh Church
Polina
Leschenko piano
Emer
McDonough flute
Nicholas
Daniel oboe
Joy
Farrall clarinet
Andrew
Webster bass clarinet
Sarah
Burnett bassoon
Stephen
Bell horn
John
Woolrich The Iron Cockerel Sings
György Kurtág Wind Quintet
Janácek Mládí
Britten Movement for Wind Sextet
Mozart Quintet for Piano and Wind
The brilliance
of Mozart’s music for winds is encapsulated in his piano quintet,
making a virtue of the instruments’ disparate sound qualities in
writing that is both dashingly soloistic and richly homogenous. Add a
true bass instrument – a bass clarinet – to the ensemble,
as Woolrich, Janácek and Britten have done – and this undervalued
instrumental combination shines still brighter. Janácek’s
sextet celebrates youth and childhood memories and shares the programme
with an appropriately youthful work from Benjamin Britten, completed in
his 17th year.
Aldeburgh
Festival
Box Office 01728 687110 book
online
Tickets
£17, £14, £8 (under 27s half price)
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Photograph by
Marco Borggreve
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