Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme connecting Vaughan Williams’s lyrical Serenade for Music – written for Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood – via Radiohead and the jazz of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to the exhilarating invention of Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita. We also hear a world premiere from French-British soprano and composer Héloïse Werner.
The programme also includes works by Coltrane, Dvořák, Ellington, Feldman, Meredith Monk, Vincent Ho and Philip Sheppard
British Sign Language-interpreted by Sean Chandler
There will be no interval
Programme
John Coltrane
Welcome (6 mins)
arr. by Harry Baker
Duke Ellington
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it ain’t got that swing) (5 mins)
arr. by Harry Baker
Héloïse Werner
The Wood Pigeon (5 mins)
BBC commission: world premiere
Vincent Ho
Sandman’s Castle (7 mins)
Morton Feldman
Rothko Chapel (5 mins)
Caroline Shaw
Partita – Sarabande (5 mins)
Antonin Dvořák
Czech Suite op.39 – v. Finale (Furiant): Presto (6 mins)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (14 mins)
arr. R. Douglas
Philip Sheppard and Evelyn Glennie
Orollogeria Aureola (5 mins)
Radiohead
Pyramid Song (5 mins)
arr. Simon Hale
Meredith Monk
Panda Chant II (2 mins)
Performers
Evelyn Glennie: percussion
BBC Singers
Fantasia Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh: conductor
