Sunday 9 March, 12.00pm
Krakow Filharmonic Hall

Tuesday 11 March, 1.00pm
Cambridge West Road Concert Hall

Wednesday 12 March, 1.00pm
London Wigmore Hall

Thursday 13 March, 1.00pm
Norwich Assembly House

Tuesday 18 March, 1.00pm
Birmingham Town Hall

This series of lunchtime concerts features Britten Sinfonia’s brilliant brass section in a programme spanning 400 years, from the courtly dance music of late-16th-century English composer Anthony Holborne, via Matthew Locke’s majestic music for brass instruments, probably written for Charles II’s coronation in 1661, to a brand new work by 21st-century Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski.

Britten Sinfonia’s principal flautist, Michael Cox, shows off his virtuosic skills in Oliver Knussen’s Masks, an unusual and technically demanding work that is effectively a ‘dialogue’ for solo flute. The title of Janácek’s Capriccio gives a hint of the piece’s character. Written for piano (left hand alone) and wind/brass septet, it is a capricious, quirky piece, blending folk-like tunes and Romantic melodies within a 20th-century
harmonic framework.

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