Afternoon Performance: Fantasia: From Japan to Paris
14:00
Thu 30 Oct 2025
City Halls
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Programme
- Green(5 mins)
- O Hototogisu! - fragment of a Japonisme(8 mins)
- 厂丑茅丑茅谤补锄补诲别(16 mins)
- interval
- On Opened Ground(25 mins)
- La valse(12 mins)
Performers
- Lawrence Powerviola
- Claire Boothsoprano
- Matthew Highamflute
- Ryan WigglesworthConductor
About this Concert
Inspiration comes in many colours. Oliver Knussen heard a messenger from another world in the song of a Japanese cuckoo. Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 viola concerto turns rough magic into poetry, and T艒ru Takemitsu heard, as well as saw, the colours of his garden.
A fascination with nature, a love of the East and a shared passion for the endlessly subtle hues of French music: delicate and beautiful threads link the different pieces in this programme from Ryan Wigglesworth, soprano Claire Booth and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power. But Ravel鈥檚 luscious oriental songs 鈥� and his whirling, dizzying vision of a world waltzing on the brink 鈥� tie them all together, in a concert to touch the heart and ravish the ear.