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17 Dec 2015, Barbican, London
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO 2015-16 Season Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus
19:30 Thu 17 Dec 2015 Main Stage
Edward Gardner conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus in Tippett's 'A Child of our Time'
Edward Gardner conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus in Tippett's 'A Child of our Time'

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Edward Gardner directs the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Tippett's moving oratorio 'A Child of Our Time', prefaced by Beethoven's Apollonian Fourth Piano Concerto and Knussen's delightful suite from Higgledy Piggledy Pop.

An ideal cast features in Tippett's extraordinarily prescient work, begun at the start of the Second World War but prefiguring its atrocities, and memorably replacing hymn chorales with spirituals. Gifted ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes on Beethoven's graceful fourth concerto, while we follow Maurice Sendak's dog Jennie to heaven in Knussen's affectionate requiem The Way to Castle Yonder.