Aldeburgh Music

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
EXAUDI*
Jonathan Nott conductor

Stravinsky Four Etudes for Orchestra
Pierre Boulez Cummings ist der Dichter*
George Benjamin Palimpsests
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945)

Stravinsky’s unmistakable soundworld is both prelude and coda to two equally distinctive voices.

Boulez’s deconstruction of e e cummings’ text is complex but seductive whilst Benjamin’s musical palimpsest overlays a placid chorale with music of vigour, clarity and lyricism.

Stravinsky is lean and astringent in his four short character pieces, but lavish and exotic in a suite from the Russian fairy-tale ballet that propelled him to international recognition exactly a century ago.

An Aldeburgh and CBSO debut for British conductor Jonathan Nott, who has become a leading figure on the Continent.

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