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Bartók, Bryce Dessner and Schumann
Britten Sinfonia
Date
Wed 13 Apr 2016, 1.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Britten Sinfonia

    Programme

    • Béla Bartók
      1881-1945
        • Duos for 2 violins BB104
          :
        • XIV. Parnas-tanc (Cushion Dance)
        • XVII. Menetelo nota (Marching Song)
        • XXVIII. Bankodas (Sorrow)
        • XXXVI. Szol a duda (Bagpipes)
        • XLIII. Pizzicato
    1. Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    Bryce Dessner, known to many as the guitarist fromThe National, has been leading a double life as aprolific composer and curator in the realm ofcreative new music.

    His compositions, marked bya keen sensitivity to instrumental colour and texture,feature in this hour-long programme alongsideBartók’s folklore-inspired Duos and Schumann’severgreen Piano Quartet.

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