Organization

Conductor

Gergely Madaras

Singer

Ian Bostridge

Soloist

CBSO

Orchestra

Britten & Tchaikovsky

Birmingham

United Kingdom

B:Music

Symphony Hall

Britten & Tchaikovsky: Dreaming Thorvaldsdottir (+2 More)

Public

Private

Dreaming

The Illuminations

Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, op. 13

Approved

From the tranquil to the fantastical, each dream is as vivid as the next.

The frosty magic of the Russian winter inspired Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony: music so tuneful, and so fresh, that you can almost see your breath in the air! Anna Thorvaldsdottir dreams of the vast stillness of Icelandic nature. And the great Ian Bostridge – possibly Britain’s finest living tenor – leads a wild parade through Britten’s shimmering, magical musical dreamscape. This promises to be a truly gripping evening…

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble