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NYO: Odyssey

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Photo of a violinist superimposed onto an ocean wave

Join the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by firecracking musicianship.

Travel together through time and space, experiencing music's power to draw our deepest yearnings for belonging and understanding to the surface. Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes oscillates between compassion and fury as a community seeks a scapegoat for the unexplained death of a child, expressed through musical seascapes of exquisite eerie delicacy and ominous, brooding ferocity. 

Anna Clyne's mesmerising RIFT is an immersive, edge of the seat experience where the orchestra becomes a restless visceral landscape, propelling us from darkness to shining light. Richard Strauss's spiritual crisis is dramatised in Also Sprach Zarathustra – its opening symphonic sunrise immortalised in Stanley Kubrick’s cult movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, ringing out hope in our potential to take on life's epic challenges.

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The end time for this concert will be added here closer to the performance date

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Benjamin Britten   Four Sea Interludes
  • Anna Clyne   RIFT
  • Richard Strauss   Also Sprach Zarathustra

Performers

  • National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain  
  • Alexandre Bloch   conductor

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