Ruth Leon recommends…12 Ensemble – Mary Bevan
Ruth Leon recommends12 Ensemble – Mary Bevan
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September 8 at 8pm.
12 Ensemble is a group that plays without a conductor, and, over the past year, this exciting string ensemble has, become part of Wigmore audiences’ listening experience through live-streamed or open-air events.
Here Mary Bevan, one of the UK’s finest sopranos, joins them for classic Britten, Les Illuminations. The 12 Ensemble also offers a work written for them by a rising star composer, Kate Whitley, and their own arrangement of Schubert’s death-haunted quartet, Death and the Maiden.
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Orpheus has been playing ‘leaderless’ for years. But if there is a soloist, the soloist is the ‘leader.’ All groups defer to one player, even if there is no actual conductor.
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