19:30 Sat 18 Sep 2021 St Mary's Church, Haddington
Tenor Joshua Ellicott and conductor Peter Whelan join the BBC SSO in East Lothian as the Lammermuir Festival returns to live music-making after two years.
Tenor Joshua Ellicott and conductor Peter Whelan join the BBC SSO in East Lothian as the Lammermuir Festival returns to live music-making after two years.
Tenor Joshua Ellicott and conductor Peter Whelan join the orchestra in the beautiful surroundings of East Lothian as the Lammermuir Festival returns to live music-making after two years.
Night, sleep, dreams – mysterious, threatening, ambiguous, sensual – these are the subjects of the eight poems that make up Britten’s Nocturne.
He called it “the Dream piece… the strangest and remotest thing – but then dreams are strange and remote.” The key of G minor seems to evoke darkness and shadows in Mozart, too, giving his penultimate symphony its unique quality.
