Name: Britten Sinfonia and the Marian Consort
Start: 2024-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Admin

Britten Sinfonia

Barbican Centre

Orchestra

The Marian Consort

Conductor

William Cole

Pianist

Huw Watkins

Piano

Britten Sinfonia and the Marian Consort

London

United Kingdom

Milton Court Concert Hall

Britten Sinfonia and the Marian Consort: Two Chansons (arr. Lisa Illean) Binchois (+3 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Two Chansons (arr. Lisa Illean)

Carlo

Arcing, Stilling, Bending, Gathering (19’)

Composition

Darknesse Visible

Regina celi

Heu me Domine

Allor che ignuda

Moro, lasso, al mio duolo in Madrigals, Libro 6 (No.17)

Sparge la morte

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

Aristocrat, murderer and composer of extraordinary music hundreds of years ahead of its time – join us in an exploration of the music and life of the sixteenth-century Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, Carlo Gesualdo.

Britten Sinfonia performs arrangements of Gesualdo’s motets, whose extremes of expression lead to harmonies that even today feel moving and refreshingly new.

Our collaboration with the acclaimed vocal ensemble The Marian Consort centres on the life and extraordinarily innovative music of sixteenth-century prince, composer and – infamously – murderer, Carlo Gesualdo. In addition to Gesualdo’s own motets and madrigals, the programme features Brett Dean’s darkly dramatic Carlo, mixing live and electronic sounds, and there is a pre-concert screening of cult filmmaker Werner Herzog’s idiosyncratic documentary, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices. We also hear music by Gesualdo’s predecessor, the African-Portuguese composer Vincente Lusitano, and Lisa Illean’s haunting and mesmeric new work, offering fleeting glimpses of transparent tapestries of sound.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble