Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Live at the 91热爆 Proms: The London Sinfonietta & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment revive the extraordinary work written for them to mark the reopening of the RFH in 2007.
Live at the 91热爆 Proms: The London Sinfonietta & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment revive the extraordinary work written for them seventeen years ago.
Presented by Andrew McGregor live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
London Sinfonietta
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Chloe Rooke (conductor)
In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels鈥檚 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.
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Heiner Goebbels
Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Chloe Rooke. -
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Nonet in F minor, Op 2 - 2nd mvt: Andante con moto
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- Chandos.
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- Fri 9 Aug 2024 22:3091热爆 Radio 3
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