
Bostridge, Pappano & Members of the LSO
Bostridge, Pappano & Members of the LSO
Expressive singing reveals the emotional depth of Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar.
One of the most emotive singers working today, Ian Bostridge frequently performs music by Benjamin Britten, who wrote some of his most personal and heartfelt songs for the tenor voice.
Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo are sung alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams’ elegiac On Wenlock Edge from 1909 which brings the poetry of AE Housman to life. Vaughan Williams wrote the cycle following lessons with the French composer Maurice Ravel. He remarked that his music thereafter had a ‘French polish’, which can definitely be heard in this shimmering piece.
Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor (1918) is a piece of great contrasts: melancholic and vigorous, sustained and fragmented. Composed at the end of World War I, and one of Elgar’s final works, it is a powerful and very human response to the horrors of the previous years.
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What to expect at The Queen's Hall
Tune out the outside world and let morning recitals encircle you in rich concentration. This is the atmosphere where world-class chamber music thrives.
Supported by Susie Thomson
Programme
Ian Bostridge Tenor
Sir Antonio Pappano Piano
Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor
Sung in Italian and English with English surtitles