Name: Sir Michael Tippett’s ‘New Year’ with BBC Singers
Start: 2024-04-13T19:30:00
Location: City Halls

Rhian Lois

Alan Oke

Susan Bickley

Ross Ramgobin

Roland Wood

Robert Murray

Rachel Nicholls

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Steve Reich’s music is made of movement. Patterns shift, collide, and reform. The smallest rhythm grows into something vast. A single chord can shimmer like glass.

In Three Movements, the music constantly moves and turns. Repeating figures stretch and ripple until you lose track of where the downbeat lands. Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards is a kaleidoscope of colour. Chords slide past one another, glowing one moment, dissolving the next.

Electric Counterpoint, written for both pre-recorded and live guitars, turns repetition into a trance. With Bryce Dessner at its heart, expect a sound both mechanical and deeply human. Then The Four Sections pulls the whole orchestra into Reich’s pulsing universe – strings, winds, brass and percussion stacked into layers that vibrate with raw power.

Steve Reich at 90: The Four Sections

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Book your free ticket for this chance to experience a live performance of Sir Michael Tippett’s space-age fairytale opera New Year. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and an internationally-renowned team of solo singers assemble to record a live, public performance of the complete opera, marking 35 years of NMC Recordings and its support of great titans of British contemporary music.

Sir Michael Tippett’s ‘New Year’ with BBC Singers

City Halls

New Year