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17 Dec 2015, Barbican, London
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±«Óãtv SO 2015-16 Season Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ±«Óãtv Symphony Chorus

±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra
Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ±«Óãtv Symphony Chorus
19:30 Thu 17 Dec 2015 Main Stage
Edward Gardner conducts the ±«Óãtv Symphony Chorus in Tippett's 'A Child of our Time'
Edward Gardner conducts the ±«Óãtv Symphony Chorus in Tippett's 'A Child of our Time'

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Edward Gardner directs the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Tippett's moving oratorio 'A Child of Our Time', prefaced by Beethoven's Apollonian Fourth Piano Concerto and Knussen's delightful suite from Higgledy Piggledy Pop.

An ideal cast features in Tippett's extraordinarily prescient work, begun at the start of the Second World War but prefiguring its atrocities, and memorably replacing hymn chorales with spirituals. Gifted ±«Óãtv Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes on Beethoven's graceful fourth concerto, while we follow Maurice Sendak's dog Jennie to heaven in Knussen's affectionate requiem The Way to Castle Yonder.