Name: The BBC Symphony Orchestra Performs George Walker
Start: 2022-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Alpesh Chauhan

Instrumentalist

Laura van der Heijden

Cello

Singer

April Koyejo-Audiger

Soloist

Zoe Drummond

Georgia Mae Bishop

Jessica Gillingwater

Joshua Stewart

Florian Panzieri

Henry Waddington

Frazer Scott

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

The BBC Symphony Orchestra Performs George Walker

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

The BBC Symphony Orchestra Performs George Walker: Sinfonia No. 2 Walker, George (+4 More)

Public

Sinfonia No. 2

Lyrics for Strings

Symphony No.5

Mass

Movements for Cello and Orchestra

Approved

“I try to write something I'm going to be able to live with, and hope that others will begin to find some of the things that I feel have given certain strength to the music” said George Walker. “I don't really believe in creating something that doesn't have any strength”. The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays two of his late Sinfonias, as well as his single best-known work – the beautiful Lyric for Strings.

Walker didn’t go in for elaborate titles. “Things that are overly embellished, or that are too rich, just don’t suit my temperament” he said. But make no mistake, his Movements (a cello concerto by any other name), his concise but deeply-felt Mass and his late masterpiece – the Sinfonia No.5 – are music that speaks directly to our times, impassioned, unsparing and unambiguously sincere.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble