This Sunday 29th June sees us giving the world premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Funeral Music, a work that has been completed from fragments that live in the Britten Pears Archive in Aldeburgh by composer Bernard Hughes. Though similar in scoring, this is a different piece from the Russian Funeral for Brass and Percussion. It is fitting then that this first performance will take place at the Aldeburgh Festival, which Britten himself founded back in 1948 and has seen the performance of so much of his music.
Alongside this, we will be performing another Britten reconstruction from manuscript, A Fanfare for June 30th 1970, as well as music by Imogen Holst, Sir Malcolm Arnold, George Gershwin, Emily Hall and Joseph Horovitz.
The concert will take place in the Britten Studio within Snape Maltings at 11am on Sunday 29th June. The event also jointly celebrates the launch of our latest recording, Transatlantic, of which the Funeral Music and Fanfare form the centre piece. We will be signing CDs after the concert and would love to meet everyone and answer any questions. A few tickets remain.