Name: BBC Symphony OrchestraWigglesworth: Heaven, Earth and the Human Heart
Start: 2023-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Sophie Bevan

Arianna

Soprano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Wigglesworth: Heaven, Earth and the Human Heart

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Wigglesworth: Heaven, Earth and the Human Heart: Lamento d'Arianna Monteverdi (+2 More)

Private

Public

Lament of Ariadne

Magnificat

Symphony No. 2 in C-Major Op. 61

Approved

My soul doth magnify the Lord: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in music from four centuries that aims directly at the human heart. 

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 BBC Symphony Chorus.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble