Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra

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.

British Sign Language-interpreted by Sean Chandler

There will be no interval

Evelyn Glennie © Philipp Rathme and Brigitte

 

Programme: 

John Coltrane arr. Harry Baker Welcome

Duke Ellington arr. Harry Baker It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it Ain’t Got That Swing)

Héloïse Werner The Wood Pigeon (BBC commission: world premiere)

Vincent Ho Sandman’s Castle (excerpt)

Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel (excerpt)

Caroline Shaw Partita – Sarabande

Antonín Dvořák Czech Suite, Op. 39 – Finale (Furiant)

Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. R. Douglas Serenade to Music

Evelyn Glennie & Philip Sheppard Orologeria aureola 

Radiohead arr. Simon Hale Pyramid Song

Meredith Monk Panda Chant II

 

Performers: 

Evelyn Glennie (percussion)

BBC Singers

Fantasia Orchestra

Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)