Sir Simon Rattle, conductor / Siobhan Stagg, soprano / London Symphony Orchestra  – Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor / Siobhan Stagg, soprano / London Symphony Orchestra – Julian Anderson, Webern & Dvořák

Sunday, 9 January 2022, 7.00pm

Sun 9 Jan 2022 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Barbican Hall, London

Julian Anderson Suite from ‘Exiles’*
Mahler Blumine from Symphony No 1
Rott Third movement from Symphony in E major
Interval
Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra (1928 version)
Dvořák Symphony No 7

Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Siobhan Stagg soprano
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey chorus director
London Symphony Orchestra

* Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler, Dvořák, Webern and Hans Rott, as well as a new suite from Julian Anderson’s Exiles. Five very different musical voices – but the stories they tell are universal.

No music – no human life – exists in a vacuum. The poets who inspired Julian Anderson’s Exiles wrote in order to communicate, even in isolation. Tonight, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, they raise the curtain on a programme of music that’s bursting to say something new: from the ferment of late-Romantic Vienna to Antonin Dvořák’s symphonic cri de coeur.

Dvořák wrote his Seventh Symphony while mourning the death of a child. Impassioned, defiant and glowing with melody, it’s one of those pieces that wrestles hope from tragedy, and it’s long been a special favourite of Sir Simon’s. Meanwhile the young Mahler and his forgotten friend Hans Rott search for their own voices, and Anton Webern finds his, in the jewel-like, emotionally charged miniatures that make up his Six Pieces.

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Published by Journal of Music on 4 January 2022

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