Philip Glass Ensemble: Glassworks
Joining us from New York, the Philip Glass Ensemble makes a triumphant return to Cambridge following their sell-out Festival performance in 2014. Philip Glass's music is instantly recognizable for its tonal chords, pulsing rhythms, and hypnotic repetition of shifting note patterns. Sitting somewhere between Classical and...
Boris Giltburg plays Chopin & Rachmaninov
Boris Giltburg piano ChopinPiano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op.35Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52Scherzo No 4 RachmaninovSix preludes:E major, Op.32 No.3 G major, Op.32 No.5G minor, Op.23 No.5B minor, Op.32 No.10G-sharp minor, Op.32 No.12C minor, Op. 23 No.7Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.36...
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Carolyn Sampson soprano Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo Andrew Staples tenor Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone BBC Singers BBC Concert Orchestra Daniel Hyde conductor Mendelssohn Elijah Dubbed the ‘Messiah of its day’, Mendelssohn’s Elijah was an instant hit and the most popular oratorio of the nineteenth century. Elijah tells the dramatic story of this inspirational and...
Mozart: Requiem
Soloists TBC Choir of King’s College Britten Sinfonia Daniel Hyde conductor Mozart Requiem Elgar Serenade for Strings Stravinsky Mass Commissioned by a mysterious benefactor, Mozart’s final unfinished work became his own Requiem. The music shows all Mozart’s operatic flair – from the melancholy opening Requiem chorus, the Lachrymosa’s sad lyrical sighs, to the...
Jali Bakary Konteh
Jali Bakary is the third generation in the Konteh family of Gambian masters of the kora – a 21-string cross between a harp and a lute – capable of astonishing virtuosity and lyricism. It is hard to overstate the regal, nearly divine, stature of the Konteh...