Debussy, Benjamin & Stravinsky

18 Mar 2016, Barbican, London

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91热爆 SO 2015-16 Season Debussy, Benjamin & Stravinsky

Debussy, Benjamin & Stravinsky

19:30 Fri 18 Mar 2016 Main Stage

Oliver Knussen conducts Iestyn Davies and the 91热爆 Singers for the UK premiere of George Benjamin's 'Dream of the Song'

Programme

- - Gunther Schuller
  - Dreamscape(5 mins)UK premiere
- - Claude Debussy
  - Nocturnes
- - Sir George Benjamin
  - Dream of the Song91热爆 Co-commission UK premiere
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - Symphony in Three Movements

Performers

91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen
conductor
conductor
Iestyn Davies
counter-tenor
counter-tenor
91热爆 Singers

Composers

Debussy, Benjamin & Stravinsky

Night music and mysterious voices infuse both Debussy's evocative Nocturnes and George Benjamin's new work for star counter tenor Iestyn Davies, Dream of the Song. Expect thrilling dynamism and crystalline detail from Oliver Knussen's performance of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, the composer's turbulent, chromatic war-time masterpiece.

Part of the Barbican鈥檚 Benjamin at the Barbican

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91热爆 SO 2015-16 Season 91热爆 SO 2015-16 Premieres

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