Organization

Conductor

Thomas Adès

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Violin

London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Myth and Magic – Thomas Adès

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Myth and Magic – Thomas Adès: Agon Stravinsky (+3 More)

Public

Private

Agon

Partita

Air (Violin Concerto)

Orpheus

Approved

The Programme
Stravinsky didn’t attend the premiere of Agon on his 75th birthday, worried that audiences wouldn’t like his new direction. But the ballet was greeted with shouts and whistles, its bracing music compared to Champagne. It’s a cool and considered triumph which melds together ingredients from Baroque to jazz.
Lutosławski’s delicate Partita and Adès’ arching Air convert age-old structures into intriguingly unfamiliar objets d’art.
Like Agon, Orpheus was a balletic collaboration between Stravinsky and choreographer George Balanchine. Orpheus’ traditional lyre becomes a harp in Stravinsky’s elegant, ritualistic music.

The Performers
His music shapes the sound of the present moment, and Thomas Adès presents a much-anticipated UK premiere in this concert. Air was co-commissioned by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom Lutosławski’s Partita was also written.

 ‘Why do we need composers? It’s a compulsion. I have no choice. There is an image in my head which to me is completely real.’ – Thomas Adès

Public online booking opens Friday 31 March at 10am

Priority booking for LSO Patrons & Friends:
Thursday 23 March at 10am – for LSO Patrons, LSO Pioneers and Ambassador level Friends
Monday 27 March at 10am – for all LSO Friends

English

Myth and Magic – Thomas Adès by Stravinsky, Lutosławski, Adès, From (2024/2024), Conductor Thomas Adès, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

Program, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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