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10 Aug 2013, Cadogan Hall
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Proms 2013 Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland

Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland
Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland
15:00 Sat 10 Aug 2013 Cadogan Hall
Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland in music by Britten and his peers, including Young Apollo, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Priaulx Rainier’s Movement for strings, and Shostakovich’s sparkling Piano Concerto No. 1 (featuring trumpeter Alison Balsom).
Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland in music by Britten and his peers, including Young Apollo, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Priaulx Rainier’s Movement for strings, and Shostakovich’s sparkling Piano Concerto No. 1 (featuring trumpeter Alison Balsom).

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Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland in its Proms debut with a programme continuing the season’s focus on the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries. Withdrawn from performance for 40 years after its 1939 premiere, Britten’s Young Apollo opens a sequence of works of brittle, edgy beauty, including the world premiere of Priaulx Rainier’s 1951 Movement for strings. Lennox Berkeley’s Serenade for strings and Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge frame a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, whose witty trumpet part is played by Alison Balsom.

There will be no interval

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