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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
3 Dec 2021, Barbican, London
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2021-22 Season Christmas Tales

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Christmas Tales
19:30 Fri 3 Dec 2021 Barbican, London
Celebration and contemplation as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Chorus returns to the Barbican for music inspired by frozen landscapes and Christmas heroes.
Celebration and contemplation as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Chorus returns to the Barbican for music inspired by frozen landscapes and Christmas heroes.

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Before the red-cloaked, bushy-bearded St Nicholas squeezes himself down your chimney, discover the legends behind the 3rd-century bishop who would go on to inspire the Santa Claus myth. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus reunite at the Barbican for Benjamin Britten’s captivating cantata, recounting Nicholas’s life from birth to death.

As a child one Christmas Eve, Gerald Finzi climbed a local hill and heard the church bells ring out over his beloved Gloucestershire. This inspired his ‘Christmas Scene’, imagining Christ’s nativity in an idyllically frozen, picture-postcard English countryside setting. It is performed here in its 1956 chamber orchestra arrangement. From frozen Finland, Jean Sibelius’s Rakastava (The Lover) opens this wintry concert, based on folk stories from Karelia – borderlands between modern Russia and Finland.