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London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle

Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák

,Barbican Hall
Siobhan Stagg

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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Programme

  • Julian Anderson   Suite from Exiles*
  • Gustav Mahler   'Blumine' from Symphony No 1
  • Hans Rott   Third movement from Symphony in E major
  • Anton Webern   Six Pieces for Orchestra (1928 version)
  • Antonín Dvořák   Symphony No 7

Performers

  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sir Simon Rattle   conductor
  • Siobhan Stagg   soprano
  • London Symphony Chorus  
  • Simon Halsey   chorus director

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