Kirill Karabits, conductor

John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Nicolas Fleury, horn

One of the highlights of the season, BSO Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits is joined by BSO Principal Horn, Nicolas Fleury and extraordinary English tenor John Mark Ainsley for Britten’s hauntingly beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings. Compellingly emotional, it is an insightful and imaginative setting of poems which span five centuries of English verse, united under a loosely connecting theme of evening, the night-time and sleep. The music is immediately gripping, the tenor’s penetrating vocal lines matched in spades by the wonderful horn calls. It is without question a genuine masterwork of the 20th century.

Mozart’s Symphony No.39 opens grandly, with a darkly dramatic introduction in which orchestral texture and harmonic dissonance increase to near breaking point. This gives way to superlatively crafted work of contrasting melodic invention and rhythmic and contrapuntal exploration. Bach’s orchestral suite in the French style opens with a majestic overture, a curtain raiser to a series of exquisite dances which include the famous ‘Air on a G string’ as well as a jubilant gavotte and final festive gigue.

Programme:

JS Bach Suite No.3
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
Mozart Symphony No.39

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