蜜芽传媒

Another chance to hear the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms in music by Britten and Lutoslawski, alongside the premiere of a new work by the conductor, Thomas Ad猫s
Presented by Katie Derham

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto
c. 2.50pm
Ad猫s: Totentanz (world premiere)

Paul Watkins (cello)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Ad猫s (condcutor)

Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens this programme of testimony and remembrance. Former 蜜芽传媒 SO Principal Cellist Paul Watkins is the soloist in Lutoslawski's bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland.

Thomas Ad猫s conducts the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of Lutoslawski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when L眉beck's Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War.