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London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle & Imogen Cooper

Haydn, Mozart & Gershwin

,Barbican Hall
Imogen Cooper

High spirits and summer sun, as Sir Simon Rattle kicks up his heels in music by Haydn, Mozart, and Gershwin – and introduces the latest showstopper from John Adams.  

‘The world is always better with Haydn,’ says Sir Simon Rattle, and tonight the exuberance and wit of Haydn’s 86th Symphony is merely the curtain-raiser for an all-laughing, all-dancing concert of Mozart, Gershwin and John Adams: music that spans three centuries without losing its smile.

After all, you’re never far from a party with George Gershwin, and tonight he takes to the dance floor, first in Havana and then in Paris. But good times are meant to be shared, so we’re delighted to welcome the great Imogen Cooper, in a concerto that shows Mozart at his most brilliant, as well as his most poignant. And there’s a swinging, sizzling new postcard from America from another old friend of the LSO, John Adams. 

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This concert will end at approximately 9.20pm.

Programme

  • Joseph Haydn   Symphony No 86
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Piano Concerto No 18
  • George Gershwin   Cuban Overture
  • John Adams   I Still Dance
  • George Gershwin   An American in Paris

Performers

  • Sir Simon Rattle   conductor
  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • Imogen Cooper   piano

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The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

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