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Online: The Hallé - Roderick Williams sings Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad

When
Wednesday March 10, 2021 at 13:00
Available online until
Wednesday March 10, 2021
Where
Online, Manchester
Tickets
£14, concessions £5
Book Online
No tickets "at the door"
  1. Russian Funeral (March for Brass and Percussion) - Benjamin Britten
  2. Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten - Arvo Pärt
  3. Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - George Butterworth, orchestrated by Roderick Williams
  4. Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings - Richard Strauss

In works refl ecting the poignancy and fragility of human life, this concert begins with Britten’s Russian Funeral for brass and percussion, followed by Arvo Pärt’s memorial threnody to Britten himself – an elegiac masterwork of disarming simplicity. Roderick Williams (named ‘our greatest baritone’ by The Daily Telegraph) sings Butterworth’s Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, in the world premiere of his new orchestration of these bitter-sweet settings which searingly penetrate to the heart of Housman’s poems. Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings is a huge favourite of Sir Mark’s, who wanted to perform it again with a new generation of Hallé strings. He feels it is ‘one of Strauss’s most deeply felt works’, the composer’s refl ection on the destruction of Germany, its people and culture following the tyranny of Nazism.

For more information on the event, how to book, and how to view the event, visit www.halle.co.uk/winter-season-2020


Venue
Online
Manchester
Manchester
England


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