Name: Chineke! Orchestra: Armatrading & Tchaikovsky
Start: 2023-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Admin

Conductor

Andrew Grams

Orchestra

Chineke! Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Chineke! Orchestra: Armatrading & Tchaikovsky

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Chineke! Orchestra: Armatrading & Tchaikovsky: Poster

Public

Symphony No.1

Symphony No. 5

The Nutcracker Suite (arr. Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington)

Approved

South Bank Centre

Forging a path that has consistently defied categorisation, the composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Armatrading explores a new voice in writing for the orchestra.

With a renowned catalogue of 21 albums to her credit, Armatrading’s distinctive musicianship has always followed her own curiosity outside of genre boundaries and into new creative arenas.

Her first symphony, premiered by the Chineke! Orchestra, brings an electrostatic charge to the concert hall.

Audiences have long been entranced by Tchaikovsky’s ability to generate a rollercoaster of emotional depths and heights, and nowhere is this more evident than in his Fifth Symphony.

But the composer’s uninhibited creative choices attracted stinging criticism in his time, derided by many a reviewer as frivolous and sentimental.

In his own words, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth marked his ‘complete resignation before Fate’, tracing an expansive journey through both despair and triumph.

With the works of Armatrading and Tchaikovsky, the Chineke! Orchestra offers an evening that celebrates two uncompromising creative voices.

English

Chineke! Orchestra: Armatrading & Tchaikovsky by Armatrading, Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2023/2023), Conductor Andrew Grams, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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