Name: BBC SOLintu Journey's End
Start: 2022-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Hannu Lintu

Singer

Jonathan Biss

Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

BBC SO/Lintu Journey's End

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC SO/Lintu Journey's End: Night Ride and Sunrise, Op.55 Sibelius (+3 More)

Public

Private

Concert

Night Ride and Sunrise, op. 55

Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey)

Vista

Grosse Fugue Op 133, arranged for string orchestra (arr. Felix Weingartner)

Approved

Hear evocative musical journeys by composers past and present – a sleigh-ride through frozen Finland, a road-trip from LA to San Diego and a fateful Austrian carriage-ride.

After visiting his wounded nephew Karl in Gneixendorf in December 1826, Beethoven became ill as he travelled home to Vienna. Weeks later, the composer was dead – Karl his sole heir. One of his last completed works, the Grosse Fugue, moves through themes in an unfolding musical journey – tonight we hear its string arrangement by Felix Weingartner.

Brett Dean’s brand-new work is one of a series instigated by the pianist Jonathan Biss, each reflecting a piano concerto by Beethoven. Gneixendorf Music responds to the composer’s Emperor Concerto and takes the composer’s fateful winter journey of 1826 as its theme. Journeys of other sorts complete the concert: Kaija Saariaho’s work inspired by a drive across California and Jean Sibelius’s musical depiction of a sleigh ride from Helsinki to Kerava.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble