NUITS D’ ÉTÉ
NUITS D’ ÉTÉ
Thursday 6th February, 7.30pm, Hall One
Ryan Wigglesworth First Book of Inventions
Sophie Bevan
When Berlioz encountered a set of poems by his friend Théophile Gautier which told of love passionate, unrequited and lost, his reaction was typically intense. Berlioz immediately set the songs to music – first for soprano with piano, then with orchestra. In the colour, sensuousness and grace of‘ Nuits d’ été’, Berlioz“ sowed the seeds for the entire musical lyricism of the nineteenth century in the French language”, according to one musicologist. Ryan Wigglesworth also includes Mozart’ s most miraculous piano concerto, Ravel’ s plangent memorial to lost friends and his own‘ Inventions’.
With a pre-concert talk
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat,‘ Jeunehomme’
Berlioz Nuits d’ été
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Conductor / Piano: Ryan Wigglesworth
Soprano: Sophie Bevan:
Northern Sinfonia
Buses from Alnwick and Hexham Tickets: £ 10- £ 33
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