Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus

17 Dec 2015, Barbican, London

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麻豆官网首页入口 SO 2015-16 Season Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus

Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus

19:30 Thu 17 Dec 2015 Main Stage

Edward Gardner conducts the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus in Tippett's 'A Child of our Time'

Programme

- - Oliver Knussen
  - The Way to Castle Yonder
- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
- - Michael Tippett
  - A Child of Our Time

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Edward Gardner directs the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Tippett's moving oratorio 'A Child of Our Time', prefaced by Beethoven's Apollonian Fourth Piano Concerto and Knussen's delightful suite from Higgledy Piggledy Pop.

An ideal cast features in Tippett's extraordinarily prescient work, begun at the start of the Second World War but prefiguring its atrocities, and memorably replacing hymn chorales with spirituals. Gifted 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes on Beethoven's graceful fourth concerto, while we follow Maurice Sendak's dog Jennie to heaven in Knussen's affectionate requiem The Way to Castle Yonder.