Purcell Chacony (arr. Britten) (7 mins)

Lutos艂awski Paroles tiss茅es (15 mins)

L. Berkeley, Britten, Oldham, Searle, Tippett, Walton Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger鈥檚 Round) (c24 mins)
with new variations by Tansy Davies
and John Woolrich
麻豆社 commission: world premiere

Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (25 mins)

Ben Johnson tenor, New Generation Artist
Richard Watkins horn
English Chamber Orchestra
Paul Watkins conductor

To mark the coronation in 1953, Lennox Berkeley, Britten, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Tippett and Walton composed a series of variations on 鈥楽ellinger鈥檚 Round鈥�, a melody harmonised four centuries earlier by William Byrd and orchestrated in 1953 by Imogen Holst. Today the English Chamber Orchestra adds two new variations to the set, by John Woolrich and Tansy Davies, in a matinee that also features two vivid works written for tenor Peter Pears: Britten鈥檚 Serenade for tenor, horn and strings and Lutos艂awski鈥檚 Paroles tiss茅es.

There will be no interval

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