with RWCMD student harp and percussion students.
Pre-concert Berio Sequenza performance concert in the foyer:
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III
Luciano Berio: Sequenza IX
Luciano Berio: Sequenza IV
Concert:
Luciano Berio: Quattro Canzoni Populari
Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Interval
Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli for Solo Flute
Manuel De Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth, who have forged a dynamic partnership through their performances of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire together, now turn their attention to Berio’s quirky and intriguing Folk Songs in the composer’s centenary year. Indeed, folk influences pervade the whole programme, from Rebecca Clarke’s pastoral-tinged duo for clarinet and viola and Katherine Hoover’s evocation of the Hopi people to Ravel’s sultry, sun-drenched pictures of Madagascar.
A preconcert thread of Berio Sequenzas sets the scene…..