Sir Simon Rattle, Philip Cobb, Gábor Tarkövi & London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Opening Season: New Music Britain
Artist: Sir Simon Rattle, Philip Cobb, Gábor Tarkövi & London Symphony Orchestra - Soloist: Philip Cobb & Gábor Tarkövi - Producer: Laurent Lesperon - Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle - Composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten & Harrison Birtwistle - Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Opening Season: New Music Britain
Sir Simon Rattle returns to champion New, British music in this concert from the start of the LSO 2018/2019 season, featuring the world premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s new Fanfare and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s wild double trumpet concerto Dispelling the Fears. Holst’s Egdon Heath reflects the curious setting of Thomas Hardy’s major works, a place ‘accordant with man's nature – neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; … but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony’. Then clear away the haze with an uplifting symphony which reflects on ‘the progress of winter to spring and the reawakening of the earth and life’.