Season Launch: New Music Britain at Barbican Hall, London on Sunday 12th September 2021

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Season Launch: New Music Britain

Add to my Calendar 12-09-2021 19:00 12-09-2021 21:00 36 Season Launch: New Music Britain Tradition is about the present – and the future – as well as the past. Sir Simon Rattle opens our new season with a concert that spans 100 years of British music. When Ralph Vaughan Williams conceived his Pastoral Symphony, it wasn’t the misty fields of an imaginary England that inspired him. He was in France, on the Western Front – where the sound of a distant trumpet unlocked a vision vast enough to transcend the noise (if not the anguish) of the First World War. But then, British music has never conformed to easy stereotypes. In this opening concert of our new season, Judith Weir reads ancient Taoist poetry, and finds ideas of radical simplicity. Peter Maxwell Davies attends an all-night party (and finds a bracing hangover cure) on his adopted home of Orkney. And because music never stands still, Sir Simon Rattle introduces the world premiere of two movements from a new choral work by Julian Anderson, inspired by the poetry of exile. Not what you might expect … Barbican Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

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

Sunday 12th September 2021
7:00 PM

Programme

Henry Purcell – Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences, Z.50
Judith Weir – Natural History
Michael Tippett – Praeludium
Julian Anderson – Exiles: two movements
~ Interval ~
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony no.3)
Peter Maxwell Davies – An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Performers

Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor
Lucy Crowe – soprano
Robert Jordan – bagpipe
Simon Halsey – chorus director

London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Tradition is about the present – and the future – as well as the past. Sir Simon Rattle opens our new season with a concert that spans 100 years of British music.

When Ralph Vaughan Williams conceived his Pastoral Symphony, it wasn’t the misty fields of an imaginary England that inspired him. He was in France, on the Western Front – where the sound of a distant trumpet unlocked a vision vast enough to transcend the noise (if not the anguish) of the First World War.

But then, British music has never conformed to easy stereotypes. In this opening concert of our new season, Judith Weir reads ancient Taoist poetry, and finds ideas of radical simplicity. Peter Maxwell Davies attends an all-night party (and finds a bracing hangover cure) on his adopted home of Orkney. And because music never stands still, Sir Simon Rattle introduces the world premiere of two movements from a new choral work by Julian Anderson, inspired by the poetry of exile. Not what you might expect …

London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle

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