Name: Haydn and Strauss: Nelson Mass and A Hero’s Life
Start: 2024-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

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Hannu Lintu

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Soprano

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnston

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Derek Welton

Haydn and Strauss: Nelson Mass and A Hero’s Life

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

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Elysium

A Hero's Life, op. 40

The Missa in Angustiis (Hob. XXII/11)

Joshua Dos

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No prizes for guessing the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence, self-mocking humour and a positively steamy love scene, this “Hero’s Life” is very much the world according to R. Strauss – an exuberant, off-the-scale showpiece for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Hannu Lintu, making a much-anticipated return.

And that’s not even the half of it: Lintu opens the concert with a vision of paradise, originally created for the Vienna Philharmonic by the brilliant young Canadian composer Samy Moussa. Then it’s the turn of the BBC Symphony Chorus and a starry line up of solo singers, in Haydn’s Nelson Mass: sacred music written in a time of war, with all the power and drama of a great opera. An electrifying centrepiece to a concert that’s larger than life.

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Haydn and Strauss: Nelson Mass and A Hero’s Life by Moussa, Strauss, Haydn, From (2024/2024), Conductor Hannu Lintu, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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