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Britten and Mahler

London Symphony Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov

,Barbican Hall
Semyon Bychkov

Semyon Bychkov and Janine Jansen bring us a concert of sorrow and triumph with music from Britten and Mahler.

Following her LSO Artist Portrait last season, Janine Jansen presents Britten’s Violin Concerto, a grief-stricken yet achingly beautiful violin-concerto-as-requiem, written in despair at the victory of General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. The work struggles between an encroaching darkness and that very last candle-flame of hope, which ever refuses to be fully extinguished.

With its huge emotional scope and large orchestral forces, Mahler’s Symphony No 5 is a real journey from tragedy to triumph. It opens in turbulent darkness and uncertainty, and closes with a vast exultant finale and an ecstatic riot of counterpoint, which ensues in the work’s final pages.

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

Programme

  • Britten   Violin Concerto
  • Mahler   Symphony No 5

Performers

  • London Symphony Orchestra  
  • Semyon Bychkov   conductor
  • Janine Jansen   violin
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Location
The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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