Metamorphoses (Night Owl)

Exploring transformation in music and words - from Bach to Britten 
and Keats to Kafka

Britten’s 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid was written in 1951, midway through humanity’s most turbulent century and at the end of the Second World War when the will to transform at a political, societal and psychological level was being felt most urgently. This evocative work for solo oboe punctuates a programme of music and literature related to the theme of metamorphosis; ranging from the transcriptions of J.S. Bach via Debussy and Philip Glass, to the words of William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Angela Carter.

Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Allemande)
Britten 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid
Philip Glass Metamorphosis
Bach Prelude in B minor BWV 855
Handel Apollo & Daphne Suite for Orchestra in B-flat Major HWV 352
Buxtehude arr. Gordon Choros
Debussy Syrinx
Bach Concerto for Keyboard in D minor BWV 1052
Violin/Director David Le Page
Keyboard David Gordon
Oboe Victoria Brawn
Violin/Director David Le Page
Keyboard David Gordon
Oboe Victoria Brawn

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