Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Tippett, John Tavener & Gubaidulina

3 Sep 2011, Cadogan Hall

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Proms 2011 Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Tippett, John Tavener & Gubaidulina

15:00 Sat 3 Sep 2011 Cadogan Hall

Music of humanism, of faith and light and some unquiet brooding too.

Programme

- - Michael Tippett
  - The Windhover(3 mins)
  - Plebs angelica(4 mins)
- - John Tavener
  - Popule meus(14 mins)UK premiere
- - Michael Tippett
  - Little Music for Strings(11 mins)
- - Sofia Gubaidulina
  - The Canticle of the Sun(42 mins)

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About this event

The 麻豆约拍 Singers are joined by the Britten Sinfonia and former 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Natalie Clein in a programme that opens with the music of an individualistic master who first worked with the 麻豆约拍 Singers in 1944.

Sir John Tavener's Popule meus meditates upon the rejection of God by modern man, with the solo cello steadfast against the temptations of the secular world as hurled out by the timpani.

In her 80th-birthday year, Sofia Gubaidulina is represented by the atmospheric The Canticle of the Sun, a setting of St Francis of Assisi in which the silences can seem as important as the notes.

There will be no interval

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