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Mark Padmore Sings Britten

Name: Mark Padmore Sings Britten
Start: 2024-11-07T19:30:00
Location: Glasgow City Hall

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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When night falls, so too does silence – and that’s when music can weave its darkest spells. In the middle of the 20th century, composers Benjamin Britten and Witold Lutosławski were kindred creative spirits, and each crafted ravishing, dream-haunted tapestries of song for a handful of instruments and the tenor voice of Peter Pears. One of Britain’s greatest living tenors, Mark Padmore, assumes his mantle today, at the dark heart of this typically...

Program

Benjamin Britten - Nocturne

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No 34 in C major

Witold Lutosławski - Paroles tissées

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2 in C major

Participants

Mark Padmore

Singer

Ryan Wigglesworth

Conductor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra