Brilliant Britten

Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

We celebrate the compositional range and prowess of Benjamin Britten with works from his early and middle creative periods: Simple Symphony, two rarely heard works for organ solo, and Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. PPC’s tenor soloist Jonathan Mack and horn player extraordinaire Aija Mattson are featured in the Serenade.

Program:

• Britten: Simple Symphony
• Britten: Voluntary on “Tallis’ Lamentation”
• Britten: Prelude and fugue on a theme of Vittoria
• Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Artists:

• Jonathan Mack, tenor
• Aija Mattson, horn
• Friends of Music Orchestra
• Timothy Howard

Resources:

• Benjamin Britten page at Wikipedia
• The Britten-Pears Foundation