SCHUBERT’ S GREAT
SCHUBERT’ S GREAT
Thursday 6th March, 7.30pm, Hall One
Louisa Tuck
From its monolithic opening theme kick-starting a cycle of inexorable momentum like a giant pendulum, to the breathless dash of its finale, Schubert’ s Ninth offers one of the most riveting journeys of any symphonic work. No wonder it attracted the title‘ Great’.“ Write for the cello everything that your heart tells you” said the great soloist Mstislav Rostropovich when asking Britten for a new work. Britten responded with his remarkable‘ Symphony’ for cello and orchestra, an inspiring musical journey from darkness to light.
With a pre-concert talk
Purcell( tr. Britten) Chacony
Britten Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C,‘ The Great’
Conductor: Paul Watkins
Cello: Louisa Tuck Northern Sinfonia
Buses from Alnwick, Hexham and Carlisle. Tickets: £ 10- £ 33
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