Nash Ensemble; Claire Booth soprano; Lionel Friend conductor

Performers

Nash Ensemble

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Claire Booth

soprano

Lionel Friend

conductor

Programme

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Returning, for string sextet*

Colin Matthews

The Island, for soprano and seven instruments*

Alexander Goehr

Clarinet Quintet

Peter Maxwell Davies

The Last Island, for string sextet*

Harrison Birtwistle

Fantasia on all the notes, for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp** (world première)

Jonathan Harvey

Song Offerings, for soprano and eight instruments

*Nash Ensemble commission
**Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Wigmore Hall and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

About this concert

The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s renowned chamber ensemble in residence, presents its annual selection of Nash Inventions, consisting of music by a roll-call of Britain’s leading composers.

There are revivals of recent works written specially for the Ensemble and two works by senior figures of the highest international standing.