Mark Padmore (tenor) joins Britten Sinfonia (Richard Watkins, horn, pianist Huw Watkins, and cellist Caroline Dearnley) to mark Benjamin Britten's centenary with a tribute to the composer's partner and muse, Peter Pears.
Richard Rodney Bennett's 'Tom O'Bedlam's Song'; Poulenc's 'Elégie (in memory of Dennis Brain)'; Gerald Barry's 'Jabberwocky' (London premiere; co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Britten Sinfonia); Walton's 'Three Sitwell Songs'; Britten's Canticle III: 'Still Falls the Rain — the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn', Op 55.
(Note: at 12.15pm, a pre-concert talk: a tribute to the composer Benjamin Britten's partner and muse, Peter Pears.)