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Jamie Barton & Jake Heggie

,Barbican Hall
Jamie Barton in a red dress beside a brick wall and a plant draping over her shoulder

2022 Grammy nominees Jamie Barton and Jake Heggie explore what we’ve all been missing out on over the past eighteen months – music, its link with words, and the human connection of live performance.

From Purcell’s wonderous ‘Music for a While’ to Heggie’s own arias, via 19th-century Lieder and Florence Price’s beautiful vocal lines, tonight is about appreciating music’s capacity for emotional expression. The centrepiece is deeply personal to both performers – song cycle What I Miss the Most was their lockdown project, with moving texts by friends including Joyce DiDonato, Patti LuPone and the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg articulating their feelings in early lockdown.

Self-described ‘die-hard feminist’ Barton champions the voices of women. Tonight she focuses on the unjustly neglected music of Price and arias from some of Heggie’s powerful female opera characters. ‘Jamie Barton is a star… already a proper, bona fide star’ said The Guardian in 2019. She is – you only need hear her voice to feel thankful that live music has returned.

Tagged with: Classical music Classical Music Multibuy - Sep–Dec 2021 Barbican Presents

This concert will finish at approximately 9.20pm, including a 20-minute interval.

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Jake Heggie   'Music' from The Breaking Waves
  • Henry Purcell   'Music for a While' from Oedipus (arr Benjamin Britten)
  • Franz Schubert   An die Musik
  •   Gretchen am Spinnrade
  •   Rastlose Liebe
  • Florence Price   We Have Tomorrow
  •   The Poet and his Song
  •   Night
  •   Hold Fast to Dreams
  • Johannes Brahms   Unbewegte Laue Luft
  •   Meine Liebe ist Grün
  •   Von ewiger Liebe
  • Jake Heggie   What I Miss the Most
  •   Of Gods and Cats
  •   Iconic Legacies: First Ladies at the Smithsonian

Performers

  • Jamie Barton   mezzo-soprano
  • Jake Heggie   piano

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Jamie Barton is turned away from the camera, smiling, with her right arm up

Jamie Barton & Jake Heggie

Watch Jamie Barton & Jake Heggie in a snippet of Schubert's An die Musik and Jake Heggie's What I Miss the Most.

Barbican Hall

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

Public transport
​​​​​​​The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.