´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2021-22 Season A New Dawn – Oramo conducts Brahms
A New Dawn – Oramo conducts Brahms
19:30
Sat 2 Oct 2021
Barbican, London
After 19 months that have changed us all, we open a new chapter at the Barbican. Here is music infused with the miracle of life, with the joy of existence and with the shadows of mourning.
After 19 months that have changed us all, we open a new chapter at the Barbican. Here is music infused with the miracle of life, with the joy of existence and with the shadows of mourning.
Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo leads a season opening like no other. At its heart is Johannes Brahms’s symphony of light and shadows – music that tells of the magnificence of creation but with a ribbon of mourning tied around its sleeve. Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 resembles the most beautiful of sunsets followed by the most invigorating of new dawns.
In 1968, the composer Ruth Gipps wrote a concerto for a newly qualified young horn player embarking on a career. That horn player happened to be her son. His mother’s gift is an ethereal, poetic and virtuosic piece, played here, in the centenary of the composer’s birth, by former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Young Musician finalist Ben Goldscheider. To open, Oramo conducts the UK premiere of Betsy Jolas’s ‘meticulously charming’ (The Boston Globe) collage in homage to Bach’s hometown, Leipzig.
