Britten Sinfonia – Town Hall, Leeds

Music: Carter, Bennett, Copland, Barber, (Encore: Arlen, Gershwin) Leader: Jacqueline Shave Soloist: Sarah Connolly Reviewer: David Gann In this concert the audience quickly senses ingredients of the American aesthetic. Only minutes into Carter’s ‘Elegy for Strings’ (1943), and we are in a world of melodic curves, writ large, rising up with grave intensity towards a ...