Hear and Now

ED BENNETT Ausland (London premiere)
RYAN WIGGLESWORTH Sternenfall (World premiere)
WOOLRICH The Street of Crocodiles
KNUSSEN Songs & A Sea Interlude from Where the Wild Things Are

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Claire Booth soprano
Huw Watkins Piano

DAVID MONRAD JOHANSEN Pan
NIELSEN Flute Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

Eivind Gullberg Jensen conductor
Ayako Uehara piano Michael Cox flute

RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
GIYA KANCHELI Broken Chant(BBC commission: world premiere)
MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Lionel Bringuier conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Francois Leleux oboe

The unanimous winner of the 2005 Besançon Young Conductors Competition, 21-year-old Lionel Bringuier makes his UK debut with a pair of pieces revealing Ravel’s mastery of orchestral colour, whether reworking his own piano music, in the hyper-Hispanic ‘Jester’s Morning Song’, or Musorgsky’s, in his virtual promenade around a dead friend’s paintings. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, one of the most brilliant and fast-rising young musicians on the musical scene, commissioned tonight’s double concert for herself and her husband from fellow Georgian Giya Kancheli, a composer of hauntingly beautiful music.

Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Barbican Hall
An introduction to tonight’s music.

BBC Music Intro Concert
This concert is a Music Intro concert, with tickets at only £5 each for families. Please see the website for further details.

ADAMS The Chairman Dances
SHCHEDRIN Concerto Parlando for Violin, Trumpet and Strings
RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Op.45

Mikhail Agrest conductor
Philippe Graffin violin
Martin Hurrell trumpet

In order to achieve a full house, we have to distribute more tickets that there are studio seats as not everyone who receives free tickets uses them. Please arrive in plenty of time, as admission is on a first come, first served basis.

PENDERECKI Symphony No. 8, ‘Lieder der Vergänglichkeit’ (UK premiere)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Jiri Belohlavek conductor
Heidi Grant Murphy soprano
Agnieska Rehlis mezzo-soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus

Since his breakthrough St Luke Passion of 1966 the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has regularly tackled such big issues as man’s place in the cosmos or the death-camps at Auschwitz in a series of choral works noted for their power and direct appeal. Premiered in Luxemburg in 2005 and now receiving its UK premiere to celebrate the composer’s 75th birthday, his latest symphony, ‘Songs of Transience’, is a large-scale setting of German poems by Goethe and others on the theme of man’s destruction of nature. It is complemented by Brahms’s Bach-inspired final symphony.

Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Fountain Room
Penderecki’s Symphony No 8