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Royal Northern Sinfonia playing Britten, Bach and Mendelssohn

Adam Tomlinson presents the Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by Bradley Creswick with violinist Kyra Humphreys, playing Britten, Bach and Mendelssohn at Sage Gateshead.

Adam Tomlinson presents the Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by Bradley Creswick, with violinist Kyra Humphreys playing Britten, Bach and Mendelssohn at Sage Gateshead. Britten's Op.1 was written whilst a composition student of John Ireland at the Royal College of Music. It's an astonishingly assured debut for an 18 year old: in spite the hostility of the College to the radicalism of the Second Viennese School - Britten was prevented from studying with Berg in 1934 - the influence of Schoenberg is clear. In contrast, Mendelssohn's youthful Symphony No 1 looks back - Mozart a huge influence on the then-15 year old. And further, to the contrapuntalism of JS Bach, whose Concerto for 2 Violins - fittingly written for two principle orchestral violinists - also bridges the centuries as the basis of Vaughan Williams' relatively neglected Violin Concerto. And in between, a contribution to the nascent Sinfonia genre by Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, eldest (and reputedly both favourite and most talented) child of dad Johann Sebastian.

Britten: Sinfonietta, Op.1
Vaughan Williams: Violin Concerto in D minor (Accademico)
JS Bach: Double Violin Concerto in D minr, BWV 1043
WF Bach: Sinfonia in D minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op 11

Royal Northern Sinfonia
Kyra Humphreys (violin)
Bradley Creswick (violin/director).

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 6 Oct 2017 19:30
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  • Part 1

    Duration: 58:52

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sinfonietta, Op. 1

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Bradley Creswick.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Violin Concerto in D minor 'Accademico'

    Performer: Kyra Humphreys. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Bradley Creswick.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Violin Concerto BWV 1043

    Performer: Kyra Humphreys. Performer: Bradley Creswick. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Bradley Creswick.

  • Interval

    Duration: 15:49

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.

  • Part 2

    Duration: 48:08

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    Sinfonia in D minor

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Bradley Creswick.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no. 1 in C minor, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Bradley Creswick.

  • Post-concert

    Duration: 30:10

  • Claude Debussy

    Violin sonata

    Performer: Nathalia Milstein. Performer: Maria Milstein.
    • The Vinteuil Sonata.
    • Mirare.
    • MIR384.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Les Cath茅drales

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Oct 2017 19:30
    91热爆 Radio 3