Metamorphoses
June 19, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
METAMORPHOSES (Night Owl)
Stratford Play House
Wednesday 19 June 2024 at 7pm
Violin/Director David Le Page
Keyboard David Gordon
Oboe Victoria Brawn
Tickets: £25, £5 under 35s*
*Use code UNDER35ONLY when you book tickets
About the Concert
Exploring transformation in music and words – from Bach to Britten and Keats to Kafka
Britten’s 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid was written in 1951, midway through humanity’s most turbulent century and at the end of the Second World War when the will to transform at a political, societal and psychological level was being felt most urgently. This evocative work for solo oboe punctuates a programme of music and literature related to the theme of metamorphosis; ranging from the transcriptions of J.S. Bach via Debussy and Philip Glass, to the words of William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Angela Carter.
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| Bach | Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Allemande) |
| Britten | 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid |
| Philip Glass | Metamorphosis |
| Bach | Prelude in B minor BWV 855 |
| Handel | Apollo & Daphne Suite for Orchestra in B-flat Major HWV 352 |
| Buxtehude arr. Gordon | Choros |
| Debussy | Syrinx |
| Bach | Concerto for Keyboard in D minor BWV 1052 |
Violin/Director David Le Page
Keyboard David Gordon
Vocals Jackie Oates
Other concerts at Stratford Play House:
From Bach to Barber. Via Brazil (14/11/23)
Revolutionaries, Renegades & Visionaries (27/02/24)Â
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Includes readings and poetry by: Shakespeare, Keats, Kafka, Stevenson, Woolf, Carter and Carroll
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