Anne Sofie von Otter & Bengt Forsberg: Shostakovich, Purcell, Britten and others

The great mezzo returns for a late-night event with her regular pianist Bengt Forsberg, their main work Shostakovich’s powerful settings of a poet who had lived outside Russia for many years before returning in 1939, eventually committing suicide in 1941, alongside an admiring realisation by Thomas Adès of a great predecessor’s work.

Programme

Purcell By Beauteous Softness (arr. Thomas Adès)
Britten
Voici le Printemps
La belle est au jardin d’amour
Fileuse
Medtner Fairy Tale in F minor Op. 14 No. 1
Shostakovich 6 Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva Op. 143
Grainger
Country Gardens
Blithe Bells
Handel in the Strand
Britten
At the mid hour of night
The Plough Boy
The Salley Gardens

Performers

Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano
Bengt Forsberg piano