Archived Event

Ligeti, Strauss, Anna Meredith and Beethoven
Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra
Date
Sat 24 Sep 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra

    Programme

        • Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28
          (arranged by Brett Dean for nonet)

    Interval

    1. Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes andsupport for new music combine here, aided by aWigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herselfa fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing composer,and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collectionof intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968.Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today aswhen it was first performed over two centuries ago.

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