sinfonia ViVA in Leicester

Wednesday 28th April 2010 at 7.45pm
Curve, Leicester
Tickets: £12, £9 under 18s / under 18s school groups of 10 or more plus 1 free supervisory ticket for every 10 tickets. Discounts: £2 off for 18-26yr olds, full time students, over 60s, registered unemployed and groups of 15+.
Box Office: 0116 242 3595
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• Barber: String Quartet (version for string orch)
• Anna Meredith (Composer in the House): Songs for the M8
• Glass: Symphony No.3
• Beethoven: Grosse Fugue

sinfonia ViVA returns with Principal Conductor André de Ridder and a time-travelling programme of contrasts which includes an exciting work by Anna Meredith, sinfonia ViVA's Composer in the House: a Royal Philharmonic Society and PRS for Music Foundation initiative.

Included is a rare opportunity to hear the 'jewel' that is Barber's Adagio for Strings set in the context of the whole work, the String Quartet No.1 in its version for string orchestra. The interesting melodies of Composer in the House Anna Meredith's Songs for the M8 inject their own fresh dynamic. Glass's Symphony No.3 emphasises the players as soloists in a composition where he came closer to 'traditional' symphonic form than ever before. And there's the gravity of Beethoven's astonishing and dramatic Grosse Fugue.

Supported by Curve, Orchestras Live and Arts Council England. Composer in the House is a Royal Philharmonic Society and PRS for Music Foundation initiative.

• Visit the Royal Philharmonic Society's Composer in the House webpage [external link]
• Visit the PRS for Music Foundation website [external link]
• Visit Anna Meredith's website [external link]