Drake Gritton and Benjamin Powell

Hindemith - Sonata for cor anglais and piano

Antonio Pasculli - Homage to Bellini

Chopin Nocturne, Op.62 No.1 in B major

Antonio Pasculli - Fantasia on Amelia’s aria, 'Un Pensiero' from Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera

Charles Koechlin - Au loin

Elliott Carter - Pastoral

Drake Gritton - cor anglais

Benjamin Powell - piano

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Drake Gritton takes the cor anglais out of the orchestra and brings it into the spotlight. He’ll perform a core piece of cor anglais repertoire by Hindemith and Antonio Pasculli’s Fantasia– a beautiful work that took inspiration from Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Charles Koechlin felt the cor anglais ‘voice’ was a perfect arrangement of his own song, and the sprightly Pastoral from Elliott Carter shows the agile side of this lesser heard member of the wind family.