Â鶹ԼÅÄ

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
15 Dec 2023, Barbican, London
Previous Event
19:30 Fri 15 Dec 2023 Next Event

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Barbican Season 2023-24 Heaven, Earth and the human heart

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Heaven, Earth and the human heart
19:30 Fri 15 Dec 2023 Barbican, London
My soul doth magnify the Lord: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄSO and Chorus in music from four centuries that aims directly at the human heart.
My soul doth magnify the Lord: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄSO and Chorus in music from four centuries that aims directly at the human heart.

Programme

About this event

Deserted by her lover, the beautiful Ariadne pours out her longing and loss. The virgin Mary sings to both heaven and earth in a moment of pure ecstasy. And Robert Schumann, smitten with his young wife Clara, weaves messages of pure love into a symphony inspired by Beethoven. Some say it’s his very greatest.

But what’s certain is that, as a composer himself, Ryan Wigglesworth brings a creator’s insight to everything he conducts - whether it’s Schumann’s ardent symphony, a reinvention of a classical myth from renaissance Venice, or Wigglesworth’s own gorgeous, typically uninhibited setting of the Magnificat, sung (for the first time in London) by the singer who inspired it, soprano Sophie Bevan, who will work wonders, along with the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Chorus.