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Aldeburgh On Tour: The Rape Of Lucretia

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Dir: Edward Dick.
Cast: Britten-Pears Orchestra, David Parry (cond)


Description: Edward Dick directs Britten's first chamber opera, set amongst the violence and degradation of ancient Rome.


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Adès pulls the strings

By Fiona Maddocks, Evening Standard  04.11.08
 
Thomas Adès

Composer's insight: Thomas Adès is an exemplary musical partner

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An attentive Kings Place audience burst into whoops at the close of an all-Stravinsky recital by violinist Anthony Marwood and pianist Thomas Adès, which launched this week’s Aldeburgh on Tour series.

Given the technical mysteries of the violin, most non-string playing composers need an expert ally before daring to write for the instrument. In Stravinsky’s case, inspiration came from Samuel Dushkin, a Polish-American violinist, for whom he wrote the Violin Concerto as well as several duo works.

Adès and Marwood used this material for their recital, opening with the cool, mechanically brilliant Suite Italienne, moving on to the Duo Concertante, bristling with febrile detail and fierce but unconventional virtuosity. The climax was the big-boned Divertimento, with the furiously energetic Danse Russe from Petrushka to end.

There’s no let-up in this taut, sinewy music. Marwood met the fiendish challenges with only tiny signs of fatigue and Adès, providing a composer’s insight, was an exemplary musical partner.

Tonight, Rape of Lucretia, 7.30pm (0844 264 0321).

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