Name: BBC Symphony OrchestraOramo: Fantastic Voyages
Start: 2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnston

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo: Fantastic Voyages

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo: Fantastic Voyages: Shéhérazade Ravel, Maurice (+2 More)

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Sheherazade, M.41

Symphony No. 3

Jason, or The Argonauts and the Sirens Overture

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Beethoven’s Eroica, Ravel’s exotica, and the adventures of the Argonauts: mezzo Jennifer Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and no emotion is off-limits.

Alice Mary Smith defied the expectations of 19th century Britain, and her musical imagination travelled without boundaries. Today, she sets sail with Jason and the Argonauts: just the start of a concert that voyages East onboard Ravel’s ship of dreams, before confronting Napoleon Bonaparte himself in Beethoven’s revolutionary Eroica symphony.

By any standards, it’s an incredible journey – but BBC SO chief conductor Sakari Oramo is a born explorer, and this is a long overdue chance to hear Smith’s spirited overture. British mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston is the soloist in Ravel’s Shéhérazade: an unashamedly poetic vision of an imagined Orient, sung by a singer whom one critic has described as having 'one of the most generous and beautiful voices in the business'.

English

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo: Fantastic Voyages by Ravel, Beethoven, Mary Smith, From (2023/2023), Conductor Sakari Oramo, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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