Name: Old Pictures, New Worlds
Start: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Singer

April Koyejo-Audiger

Soprano

Marta Fontanals-Simmons

Mezzo Soprano

Joshua Stewart

Tenor

Old Pictures, New Worlds

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Old Pictures, New Worlds: Missa de Santa Cecília, CPM 113 Garcia, J. M. N. (+1 More)

Public

Missa de Santa Cecília, CPM 113

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

Nunes García was a contemporary of Beethoven – a musician and priest of mixed heritage who scaled the pinnacle of Brazilian musical life when the exiled Portuguese court relocated to Rio de Janeiro. This magnificent Mass setting from 1826 – dedicated to the patron saint of music – might just be his masterpiece. Martyn Brabbins, a suberb cast of soloists and the BBC Symphony Chorus bring it out of the shadows tonight. 

When Modest Mussorgsky visited an exhibition of pictures by a much-missed friend, his imagination ignited. Pictures at an Exhibition with its glowing skulls, dancing chicks and the Great Gate of Kyiv is one of the most colourful half-hours you’ll ever spend in a concert hall.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble