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Radio 3 Live in Concert: City of London Sinfonia - Britten, Copland, Shostakovich

City of London Sinfonia - Britten, Copland, Shostakovich

27/09/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, City of London Sinfonia - Britten, Copland, Shostakovich

The City of London Sinfonia under Michael Collins in Britten, Copland and Shostakovich.

City of London Sinfonia under Michael Collins. Britten: Serenade. Britten: Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (2nd mvt). Copland: Clarinet Concerto. Shostakovich: Symphony No 14.

The City of London Sinfonia, directed by Michael Collins, play Britten's Serenade and Shostakovich's 14th Symphony.

Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Britten (arr.Colin Matthews): Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (second movement)
Copland: Clarinet Concerto

8.15: Interval

8.35
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14

Evelina Dobracheva, soprano
Graeme Broadbent, bass
Ronan Busfield, tenor
Stephen Stirling, horn
Michael Collins, conductor, clarinet

Britten and Copland wrote their clarinet concertos for the American 'King of Swing' Benny Goodman. Britten's original score was impounded by US Immigration, as he was being watched by the FBI, but it was eventually finished by Colin Matthews.
The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, composed in 1947, was one of the first pieces Britten wrote on his return from wartime America. Setting English poems on the ideas of night, sleep and the 'cloak of evil', it shares similar themes with Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony, a work filled with imagery of death and destruction.

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