Blissed-out visions of heaven from Mahler and Messiaen: the irrepressible Barbara Hannigan conducts and dreams her way to glory.
Barbara Hannigan conductor
Aphrodite Patoulidou soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen L’ascension
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No 4
Olivier Messiaen sends up a prayer, and the skies themselves seem to ring with majestic, multicoloured sounds. Mahler gets inside the mind of a child, in a symphony of blue skies, jangling sleighbells and sudden, rapturous visions. It’s a wild ride to heaven, and the extraordinary Barbara Hannigan is there to show us the way tonight.
As a conductor Barbara Hannigan drives straight to the places that other musicians wouldn’t dare. She’s been called ‘an artist who shoots straight for the heart and never misses’, and here the LSO’s Artistic Associate stars as both conductor and vocalist in a concert charged with wonder.
Change of soloist
Barbara Hannigan has been suffering from the residual health impact of a serious virus of the eye. Barbara will conduct the concert as planned, however she will not sing the solo soprano part in the last movement of Mahler Symphony No 4. The soprano part will now be sung by Aphrodite Patoulidou.
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