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Weekend 3 Weekend 3<br />
<strong>Plush</strong> 5 • Film Screening<br />
Saturday 27th August<br />
<strong>Plush</strong> 6 • Evening Concert<br />
Saturday 27th August<br />
5.30pm • £5 suggested<br />
donation<br />
Oliver Knussen<br />
“This is music that<br />
packs as much<br />
incident, information,<br />
and expression in<strong>to</strong><br />
mere minutes than<br />
some o<strong>the</strong>r composers<br />
manage in a lifetime.”<br />
The Guardian<br />
Sounds from <strong>the</strong> Big White House:<br />
Oliver Knussen at 50 (2001)<br />
Direc<strong>to</strong>r Barrie Gavin<br />
A film made <strong>to</strong> celebrate Oliver Knussen’s<br />
50th birthday. The composer talks about<br />
<strong>the</strong> perils <strong>of</strong> early fame, about meeting<br />
Stravinsky and demonstrates his amazing<br />
collection <strong>of</strong> mechanical <strong>to</strong>ys. Music<br />
performed by <strong>the</strong> London Sinfonietta<br />
and BBC Symphony Orchestra includes<br />
excerpts from Where <strong>the</strong> Wild Things<br />
Are and <strong>the</strong> Horn Concer<strong>to</strong>.<br />
7.30pm • £20<br />
Claire Booth<br />
“Claire Booth brought<br />
great warmth <strong>to</strong><br />
Knussen's haunting<br />
texts and vocal line.”<br />
Chicago Sunday Times<br />
<strong>Plush</strong> Ensemble<br />
Debussy Violin Sonata (Mor<strong>to</strong>n, Hor<strong>to</strong>n)<br />
Knussen Ophelia’s Last Dance (Hor<strong>to</strong>n)<br />
Knussen Whitman Settings for soprano<br />
and piano, Op. 25 (Booth, Hor<strong>to</strong>n)<br />
~<br />
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor,<br />
Op. 25 (Hor<strong>to</strong>n, Gould, Knight, Brendel)<br />
Brahms’ piano quartet is a much loved<br />
staple <strong>of</strong> festival programmes, while<br />
Debussy’s violin sonata establishes <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>to</strong>ne for <strong>the</strong> atmosphere <strong>of</strong> Oliver<br />
Knussen's music with its own radical and<br />
taut form. Knussen's two short works are<br />
full <strong>of</strong> wonderful material. 'Ophelia's Last<br />
Dance' sets a series <strong>of</strong> dance fragments<br />
around a recurring piano <strong>the</strong>me, while <strong>the</strong><br />
‘Whitman Settings’ for soprano and piano<br />
reimagine a familiar genre with fresh ears,<br />
musing on things in space or sky.
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