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This is Rattle: Helen Grime

Programme curated by the composer

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Portrait of Helen Grime

The British composer Helen Grime celebrates Sir Simon Rattle’s arrival with a personally curated programme of her own music and its inspirations.

Helen Grime is one of many living composers being championed by Sir Simon Rattle as Music Director of the LSO. She’s responded with a programme that places her own richly imagined music amidst the works – from Purcell to Stravinsky – that helped shape it.

So there are many living friends and inspirations in the mix: lovingly-crafted works by Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin. Britten Sinfonia has this music in its artistic DNA, just as it’s superbly placed to trace Grimes’s roots through Stravinsky and Britten and right back to Henry Purcell: the acorn from which a living tradition took root.

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Produced by the Barbican and Britten Sinfonia

Programme

  • Purcell   Fantasia Upon One Note
  • Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin and Colin Matthews   A Purcell Garland
  • Helen Grime   Into the Faded Air
  • Oliver Knussen   Cantata
  • Britten   Sinfonietta
  • Helen Grime   A Cold Spring
  • Thomas Adès   Court Studies from The Tempest
  • Stravinsky   Dumbarton Oaks

Performers

  • Britten Sinfonia  
  • Jacqueline Shave   violin/director

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Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available