Lunchtime in the City: Brook Street Band
Join The Brook Street Band for an hour, and travel with them through the ideas of night, a place of wonder and creativity where different worlds, centuries and musical influences collide.
Central to this night is Nitin Sawhney’s ‘Early Transitions’ which in Nitin’s own words explores “connections between Eastern and Western classical ideas with particular reference to my love of Baroque music, Indian classical raga and mathematical interactions through the taal system, phrasing and diatonic expansion”. A real chance to dream…
Repertoire
Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665)
Ciaccona in C major Op. 12 No. 20
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704)
Ciacona in C major from ‘Der Nachtwächer’
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Modéré from Paris Quartet No. 12 in E minor TWV:43e4
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
Suite ‘Airs tendres’ from Sérénade ou Concert
Sommeil; Songes agréables (Sarabande; Gavotte; Bourrée; Menuet); Sommeil
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Trio Sonata in C minor BWV 526
Vivace; Largo; Allegro
Nitin Sawhney b. 1964
‘Early Transitions’ (London Première)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Larghetto; Allegro [from Organ Concerto in F major HWV 296 ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’]; Adagio; Allegro; Minuet [from Trio Sonata in F major Op. 5 No. 6 HWV 401]
Tickets: £15
Booking Dates
Monday 21 November: tickets on sale to Major Donors and Director’s Circle
Wednesday 23 November: tickets on sale to Gold Patrons
Friday 25 November: tickets on sale to Patron’s Circle
Monday 28 November: tickets on sale to Festival Benefactors
Wednesday 30th November: tickets on sale to Associate Benefactors
Friday 2 December: tickets on sale to Friends
Monday 5 December: tickets on sale to General public
