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Nash Inventions
Nash Ensemble; Simon Wallfisch baritone; Peter Tregear baritone
Date
Wed 20 Sep 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Nash Ensemble
    • Simon Wallfischbaritone
    • Peter Tregearbaritone

    Programme

    • Alexander Goehr
      b. 1932
        • The Waking for two baritones
        • after 'The Waking' for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin and double bass
          (world première) [2]
    1. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
    2. Commissioned by the Radcliffe Trust, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    Alexander Goehr’s latest chamber work, scored for an intriguinglymixed quintet, is presented alongside Sir Harrison Birtwistle’ssingle-movement Trio, with its uncharacteristically abstracttitle, and the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s String Quintet, firstperformed as part of the Ensemble’s 50th anniversary celebrations.The programme is crowned by John Casken’s folk-inspired Quintet.

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