Name: A Sea Symphony
Start: 2024-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Direction d'orchestre

Sakari Oramo

Orchestra

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

Vilde Frang

Violin

Lawrence Power

Viola

Soprano

Silja Aalto

Baryton

Morgan Pearse

Baritone

A Sea Symphony

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Barbican Concert Hall

A Sea Symphony: Cleveland Pictures Knussen (+2 More)

Public

Cleveland Pictures

Double Concerto

Une symphonie marine

Ayyappa swamy y

Valide

Full sail for new shores: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Britten’s Double Concerto and an enchanting, newly uncovered late work by Oliver Knussen.

'Behold, the sea itself!' With a ringing fanfare, and a mighty choral shout Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. BBC Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Sakari Oramo has a special affinity for British music, and tonight he ends the season under full sail.

It’s all about new horizons, after all: so what better way to open than with the first London performance of a magical late work by the much-missed Oliver Knussen? Cleveland Pictures is Knussen at the top of his game: jewel-like in its colour, precision and sense of wonder. It’ll cast its spell over this performance of Britten’s atmospheric, rarely heard Double Concerto – with two uniquely sensitive soloists, Vilde Frang and Lawrence Power, supplying their own special poetry.

English

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