Name: New Music with Jack Sheen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Start: 2024-11-22T19:00:00
Location: BBC Maida Vale Studios

Nicolas Hodges

Jack Sheen

BBC Symphony Orchestra

A monsoon downpour and a cascade of flame: elemental forces are in play as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra continue their season with music inspired by the environment in all its fragility and power. But Stravinsky’s dazzling Firebird suite and Judith Weir’s magical rain-spell aren’t even the half of this gloriously colourful concert.

Yeol Eum Son plays Bartók's Third Piano Concerto

Barbican Centre

Conductor Jack Sheen returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra with four works – all receiving their UK premieres. Polish composer Lidia Zielińska explores dramatic contrasts. German composer Beat Furrer challenges soloist and orchestra in his virtuosic Piano Concerto. Italian Francesca Verunelli uses a detuned piano to destabilise our ears in Tune and Retune, and Øyvind Torvund takes us on quirky walk in a forest, complete with birdsong.