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Britten Sinfonia: Recycling Concerto

Pastoral Beethoven and Rautavaara's hymn to nature

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Recycling concerto

Nature and conservation are at the heart of this uplifting programme of orchestral works. 

Beethoven’s symphony features birdsong melodies he transcribed, while the great 20th-century Finnish composer Rautavaara’s work is a 'Concerto for Birds and Orchestra', with the recorded sounds of curlews, shore larks, whooper swans and others the soloists running throughout. 

Mayrhofer’s Recycling Concerto was written for the virtuosic percussionist Vivi Vassileva. Together they have collected and tuned an enormous battery of percussion from repurposed rubbish, which Vassileva makes full use of over the course of this powerful and thought-provoking work. 

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Programme

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara   Cantus Arcticus
  • Ludwig van Beethoven   Symphony No 6 Pastoral
  • Gregor L Mayrhofer   Recycling Concerto

Performers

  • Vivi Vassileva   percussion
  • Gregor L Mayrhofer   conductor
  • Britten Sinfonia  

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