Instrumentation
2(=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2 - 2221 - timp(=crot) - perc(4): tuned drum/cyms/bell/2 glsp/vib/2 gong/xyl/susp.cym/2 tam-t/mar/3 tom-t/(3 ch.dr) - pno - harp - strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)
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Suite from Death in Venice
orchestra
Suite from Death in Venice
Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom)
Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder CBE CH
Suite from Death in Venice
BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
Suite from Death in Venice
Staatstheater (Kassel, Hessen, Germany)
Staatsorchester Kassel/Otto Tausk
Suite from Death in Venice
Online stream. Recorded on 6 May.
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre (London, United Kingdom)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
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studio recording, coverage: live on BBC Radio 3
City Halls (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
Faber Music at the 75th Aldeburgh Festival
Premieres from Tom Coult, alongside 60th anniversary production of Curlew River and music from Imogen Holst and Carl Vine
New productions of Britten’s Death in Venice from Welsh National Opera and Theater Heidelberg
Composer's final opera with text by Myfanwy Piper directed by Olivia Fuchs and Magdalena Fuchsberger
'Suite from Death in Venice' reviews
'...prodigious masicality. Everything to which the composer had responded, he had made his own, from Mahler to Balinese music...'
Meirion Bowen, The Daily Telegraph, 15 June 1984