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Tickets

Standard – £17.00
Under 26s – £12.50
Students – £7.00
Jobseekers – £5.00
Carers / Under 16s – £0.00

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Programme

Gabriela Montero
Babel (European premiere)

Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony Op. 118a

Philip Glass
Echorus

Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time (movement 8)

Pēteris Vasks
Viatore

Plus improvisation

Babel explores the concept of music that comes with a message; a selection of powerful pieces using music as a tool to communicate something that words could not.

At the heart of the concert is Gabriela Montero’s new commission for piano and string orchestra, a colourful and inventive portrait of her experience as human rights activist as she tries to be heard in a world which wants only to talk, not listen.

Montero’s voice is joined by others, from Barshai’s arrangement of Shostakovich’s tenth String Quartet – an honest, heartfelt illustration of his disillusionment with a crushing Soviet regime – to Messiaen’s astonishing invocation of heaven, written whilst a German prisoner of war.

Join us and witness the room fill with complex, deep and urgent messages, from the political to the philosophical, without a single word being uttered.

SE Blether at 6.45pm

 Please join us for a free pre-concert talk in the main concert hall, when we’ll explore some of the context around the programme. Our SE Blethers are included in the price of your ticket.