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Helen Grime world premiere

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

— ,Barbican Hall
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Mahler’s final symphony meets a new work by British composer Helen Grime in this double-bill with the LSO’s Music Director.

Nimble melodic lines take unexpected turns, rustling around one another inside vast orchestral landscapes. Bright orchestral colours shine with clarity, like light rays across a clear winter’s sky. At once familiar and strange, this is the music of Helen Grime.

Her new work reveals her world, before we arrive at another. Mahler’s final completed symphony, never heard while he was alive, doesn’t end so much as expire. Two slow movements frame two fast ones – the beginning, birth (or creation); the end, death (or ascension); with the hurried business of life in between.

Sir Simon Rattle once said that the music of Mahler never needed any translation for him; it just made sense. This performance promises to be a revelation.

Tagged with: Classical music London Symphony Orchestra 2017-18 Multibuy London Symphony Orchestra 2017–18

26 Apr generously supported by Baker McKenzie

Programme

  • Helen Grime   Woven Space* (world premiere)
  • Mahler   Symphony No 9

*Helen Grime's work was commissioned for Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra by the Barbican

Performers

  • Sir Simon Rattle   conductor
  • London Symphony Orchestra  
Generously supported by Baker McKenzie

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