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 Sounds and Visions Free

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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