BBC Proms - 2008 - Proms Chamber Concerts - PCM8 - Aronowitz Ensemble

From Cadogan Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble are joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts for a performance of Gabriel Faure's song cycle La bonne chanson, a setting of poems by Paul Verlaine. The Ensemble also perform Richard Strauss's string sextet from his last opera, Capriccio, and give the world premiere of a BBC commission - a new string sextet written specially for the Aronowitz Ensemble by Welsh composer Huw Watkins, with a title inspired by a phrase from the Philip Larkin poem Sad Steps. Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Aronowitz Ensemble Strauss: Capriccio - Sextet Faure: La bonne chanson Huw Watkins: Sad Steps (BBC commission: world premiere).