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Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Dmitry Shostakovich – 4 Waltzes for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Izaak Walton РFa̤ade
Performers
Ian Bostridge – reciter
Dame Felicity Palmer – reciter
John Wilson – Conductor
Nash Ensemble
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Programme Note
This years focus on William Walton wouldnt be complete without his witty, genre-bending 'entertainment Façade. Waltons first big success, the work sets poems by his friend and patron Edith Sitwell to create a sequence of colourful, whimsical and piquant numbers for chamber ensemble and reciters.
The whimsical side of Shostakovich is also represented, in his Four Waltzes. Arranged from the composers earlier film scores, they range from the good-humoured ‘Spring Waltz’, the faux naïf ‘Waltz-Scherzo’ and the charmingly kitsch ‘Barrel Organ Waltz’.