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Sounds and Visions FreeStage

12 Ensemble: Tavener, Glass, Levi, Pärt, Sigur Rós

,Barbican Foyers
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The last of three FreeStage performances from the 12 Ensemble, as they turn their hands to some of the 20th Century’s most important composers.

There’s Philip Glass’s Company II, conceived as music for a stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novella of the same name, Mica Levi’s brilliant Love from her soundtrack to Under the Skin, and John Tavener’s hauntingly beautiful setting The Lamb. Then the ensemble look to Northern Europe, with an arrangement of Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós’s Fljotavik and one of the 20th century’s most enduring works; Arvo Pärt’s Fratres.

Tagged with: Contemporary music Free Sounds and Visions

Programme

  • Tavener   The Lamb
  • Philip Glass   Company II
  • Mica Levi   Lonely Void from Under the Skin
  • Mica Levi   Love from Under the Skin
  • Arvo Pärt   Fratres
  • Sigur Rós   Fljotavik (arr 12 Ensemble)

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