Venue:

Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Start Time:

13:05

End Time:

14:00

Price:

£5.50 (£3)

Tags: music, recorder

Fractured Sounds, Borrowed Voices..., Recorders: Christopher Orton, Piano: Magdalena Nasidlak

Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for recorder and piano (1939)

Luciano Berio: Gesti (1966) for solo tenor recorder

Elizabeth Winters: Sonatina for recorders and piano (2004)

Giorgio Tedde: Austro (1994) for solo alto recorder

Edward Southall: False Lights (2008) for alto recorder and piano

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano (1957)

Since graduating from the Conservatoire with a Distinction in the prestigious Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Performance, Christopher Orton has become widely regarded as one of the leading and most exciting recorder players of his generation.  This opportunity to hear him in a varied and intriguing programme is not to be missed.