Britten Prelude and Dances from The Prince of the Pagodas
Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes (A time there was)
Britten Nocturne
Britten Cello Symphony

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Mark Padmore tenor
Truls Mørk cello

‘Write for the cello everything that your heart tells you’, said the great Mstislav Rostropovich when asking Britten for a new work for his instrument. Britten responded with music of fraught intensity but also of optimism – his only piece of ‘absolute’ symphonic music and an inspiring journey from darkness to light. At the end of his career Britten turned once more to an enduring theme: the corruption of innocence and the recollection of times lost. His Suite on English Folk Tunes is a gentle but touching act of homage to both the country in which he felt so rooted and the tradition of folksong to which he owed so much.

Supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation

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Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas - Prelude
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes (A time there was) - II. The Bitter Withy
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes (A time there was) - III. Hankin Booby
Britten: Nocturne, Op. 60 - II. below the thunders of the upper deep
Britten: Nocturne, Op. 60 - VI. She sleeps on soft last breaths
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 - I. Allegro maestoso
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 - III. Adagio

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