Sounds and Visions FreeStage

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

Sun 13 May 2018, 18:30 ,Barbican Foyers

12 ensemble holding posing with their stringed instruments

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.