Name: Refugee
Start: 2019-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Andrew Gourlay

Singer

Allan Clayton

Tenor

Britten Sinfonia

Orchestra

Refugee

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Milton Court Concert Hall

Refugee: Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round", for chamber orchestra Tippett (+3 More)

Public

Private

Concert

Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round", for chamber orchestra

Refugee for tenor and chamber orchestra

Songs without Voices

Nocturne, op. 60

Approved

What does it mean to be a refugee, now and through the ages? Turnage’s new song cycle sets texts by poets including Benjamin Zephaniah and Emily Dickinson, performed by peerless tenor Allan Clayton.

The UK premiere of Refugee is performed alongside works by composers that Turnage counts among his major musical influences, including his teacher and mentor, the late Oliver Knussen. The concert opens with Tippett’s five-movement re-imagining of the traditional English tune, ‘Sellinger’s Round’, rich with quotations from music by Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Field and Sullivan. Allan Clayton returns for Britten’s final song cycle, the evocative Nocturne for tenor, seven solo instruments and strings.

English

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Ensemble