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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 2027

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 2027

Royal Northern College of Music

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Ritual, mourning, memorial Tonight, Sean Shibe and the BBC Philharmonic examine the pageantry, rites and emotions of funeral music, ancient and modern. From Henry Purcell’s weighty, solemn tones, written for the funeral of Queen Mary in 1695, to Bruckner’s Aequales – intimate, chamber chorales – this is music of memory, grey-dark and silver. Exuberant work by Julia Wolfe and Alex Paxton sits alongside Kurtág’s ‘Gravestone’, trudging, slow, then...

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Program

HP

Henry Purcell - Funeral Music for Queen Mary (‘March’ and ‘Canzona’)

GB

George Benjamin - Fantasia 7 after Henry Purcell

CM

Cassandra Miller - Chanter

AP

Alex Paxton - Needy Mouth Corner

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Participants

Sean Shibe

Guitar

Naomi Woo

Conductor

Royal Northern College of Music

Producer

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

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1 dates (26 Feb - 26 Feb)

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26

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8:00 pm

Royal Northern College of Music

Manchester, United Kingdom

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