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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Centre
Courtesy of Bandsintown | Posted on April 29, 2019
Where
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
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020 7382 6199
When
Wed, May 1, 2019
19:30
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Sir Simon Rattle conducts a study in harmony, with music from John Adams and a new work by Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
Inspired by a dream in which an oil tanker launches into space like a Saturn V rocket, John Adams’ Harmonielehre marries the rich and expressive harmonies of late Romanticism with the postmodernist developmental techniques of 20th-century minimalism.
Catch spectral glimpses of Sibelius, Debussy, Mahler and early Schoenberg as we journey through a fantastical sonic landscape, from the high-energy opening and the melancholic second movement through to the tidal wave of brass and percussion which brings the piece to its grand and uplifting final climax....