Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák: with Sir Simon Rattle at Barbican Hall, London on Sunday 9th January 2022

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Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák

with Sir Simon Rattle

Part of the London Symphony Orchestra 2021-22 Season

Add to my Calendar 09-01-2022 19:00 09-01-2022 21:00 36 Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler, Dvořák, Webern and Hans Rott, as well as a new suite from Julian Anderson’s Exiles. Five very different musical voices – but the stories they tell are universal. No music – no human life – exists in a vacuum. The poets who inspired Julian Anderson’s Exiles wrote in order to communicate, even in isolation. Tonight, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, they raise the curtain on a programme of music that’s bursting to say something new: from the ferment of late-Romantic Vienna to Antonin Dvořák’s symphonic cri de coeur. Dvořák wrote his Seventh Symphony while mourning the death of a child. Impassioned, defiant and glowing with melody, it’s one of those pieces that wrestles hope from tragedy, and it’s long been a special favourite of Sir Simon’s. Meanwhile the young Mahler and his forgotten friend Hans Rott search for their own voices, and Anton Webern finds his, in the jewel-like, emotionally charged miniatures that make up his Six Pieces. Barbican Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England

Sunday 9th January 2022
7:00 PM

Programme

Julian Anderson – Exiles: Suite
Gustav Mahler – Blumine
Hans Rott – Symphony no.1 in E Major
~ Interval ~
Anton Webern – 6 Pieces for Large Orchestra, Op.6
Antonin Dvorak – Symphony no.7 in D minor, Op.70

Performers

Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor
Siobhan Stagg – soprano
Simon Halsey – chorus director

London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler, Dvořák, Webern and Hans Rott, as well as a new suite from Julian Anderson’s Exiles. Five very different musical voices – but the stories they tell are universal.

No music – no human life – exists in a vacuum. The poets who inspired Julian Anderson’s Exiles wrote in order to communicate, even in isolation. Tonight, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, they raise the curtain on a programme of music that’s bursting to say something new: from the ferment of late-Romantic Vienna to Antonin Dvořák’s symphonic cri de coeur.

Dvořák wrote his Seventh Symphony while mourning the death of a child. Impassioned, defiant and glowing with melody, it’s one of those pieces that wrestles hope from tragedy, and it’s long been a special favourite of Sir Simon’s. Meanwhile the young Mahler and his forgotten friend Hans Rott search for their own voices, and Anton Webern finds his, in the jewel-like, emotionally charged miniatures that make up his Six Pieces.

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