Sinfonietta - Series 2: Voices

Record ID: 126811
  • Title: Sinfonietta - Series 2: Voices
  • Date: 18th March 1990
  • Summary: VOICES This documentary is built around extracts from Hans Werner Henze's song cycle VO ICES with soloists Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano and Neil Jenkins, tenor. The third of the series in which Paul Crossley explores the role of the composer writing now and for our time. An actual flight from Rome to Munich, and music from the collection of songs VOICES, are used to explain the German composer Hans Werner Henze's journey from his own country to a voluntary exile in Italy; and the means by which he has felt able to return by literally and spiritually from Italy to his homeland.
  • Description:6 PROGRAMMES PRESENTED BY PAUL CROSSLEY WHO DISCUSSES WITH 6 INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED COMPOSERS HOW EACH WORK CAME ABOUT AND WHERE IT FITS IN THEIR OUTPUT. THECOMPOSER CONDUCTS EACH WORK HIMSELF. PERFORMED BY LONDON SONFONIETTA
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:LANDSEER FILM & TV PRODUCTIONS LTD
  • Programme Episode:Episode 3
  • Transmission Date:18/03/1990
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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