Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.
Bernard Hermann Suite from ‘Vertigo’
Ryan Latimer Bestia: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Terence Blanchard Suite from ‘Fire Shut Up in my Bones’ (UK Premiere)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Sea Hawk
Fabien Gabel conductor
Selina Ott trumpet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Classical music
Making America: Billy Childs’s Saxophone Concerto
Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.
Du Yun Hundred Heads (European Premiere)
Billy Childs Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (UK Premiere)
John Adams Harmonielehre
Elena Schwarzconductor
Steven Bankssaxophone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Classical music
Making America: Requiem for America
The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.
Brent Michael Davids Requiem for America (World Premiere)
Teddy Abrams conductor
Brent Michael Davids Native American flute
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Event
Classical music
Making America: Oramo conducts Bartók & Korngold
Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.
