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Thursday 6 December 2007, 7.30pm
PRE-CONCERT EVENT AT 6.15PM
Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé: Suite 15'
Sally Beamish The Singing (Accordion Concerto) 25' HALLÉ FIRST | WORLD
Vaughan Williams Sinfonia antartica 41' HALLÉ FIRST | WORLD
Martyn Brabbins conductor • James Crabb accordion • Caroline MacPhie soprano • Hallé Youth Choir
Two works given their first performances by the Hallé - Vaughan Williams's 'Antarctic' Symphony and Sally Beamish's poetic accordion concerto - return in this anniversary season. Both are musical landscapes, Vaughan Williams reflecting the extreme cold, whiteness, space and threat of the southern wastes, Beamish contemplating the human wastefulness of the Highland clearances in a work of piquancy and lament. 'Beamish creates a vivid musical landscape, making use of Gaelic song and psalm, the insistent rhythms of the looms, and the lamenting pibroch as well as dance...' (The Independent on The Singing.) Vaughan Williams developed his symphony from a film score, for Scott of the Antarctic, and another piece with cinematic connections opens the concert: Prokofiev's lively Lieutenant Kijé suite, whose 'Sleigh Ride' troika adds a cheery note to the wintry theme. |
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