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BBC Proms: 2021: Manchester Collective

Manchester Collective

2021

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Live at the BBC Proms: the Manchester Collective presents works by Górecki and Horovitz.

Live BBC Proms: the Manchester Collective and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani play harpsichord concertos by Górecki and Horovitz, along with works by Finnis, Eastman and Tabakova.

Fresh from the release of its debut recording, the dynamic Manchester Collective makes its Proms debut alongside genre-defying harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. 


Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Elizabeth Alker 

Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40
Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere
Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc

8.15: Interval: Elizabeth Alker is joined by the Lancashire born music journalist and radio presenter Stuart Maconie to discuss genre crossing, music and silence. 

Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu’
Joseph Horovitz: Jazz Harpsichord Concerto

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
Manchester Collective
Rakhi Singh, violin/director

Fresh from the release of its debut recording, the dynamic Manchester Collective makes its first appearance at the Proms with a programme that draws on the musical past to help imagine a bold musical future. Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani explodes stereotypes around his instrument in concertos by Joseph Horovitz and Górecki – the former a witty fusion of jazz colours and textures with Classical forms, the latter a musical ‘prank’, motoric and defiantly playful. Also looking back to the 18th century is Dobrinka Tabakova’s Suite in Old Style – a musical homage to Rameau (alias Amareu) that blends folk and Baroque details in its five contrasting movements. The concert also includes music by the black American avant-garde post- Minimalist and gay activist Julius Eastman and Novello Award-nominated composer Edmund Finnis.

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