Details
LSO St Luke's
161 Old St
London
EC1V 9NG
England
Programme
György Ligeti – Ramifications
Béla Bartók – Divertimento, Sz.113 (BB 118)
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen, TrV 290
Performers
James Ham – Conductor
Stephen Bryant – Leader
London Orchestra Project
Programme Note
Principal players from London’s professional orchestras sit side-by-side outstanding students and recent graduates from London’s music colleges in a programme of masterpieces for strings.
Written at the end of the Second World War, Metamorphosen is an intensely emotional monument to cultural loss. Music from two giants of Hungarian music completes the evening, with Bartok’s folk inspired Divertimento and the constantly shifting patterns of Ligeti’s Ramifications.
Includes players from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.