IgorFest: Orpheus

Thu 30 Apr 7:30pm at Symphony Hall

Ex Cathedra

We enter the final leg of our ground-breaking four-year Stravinsky cycle with a programme featuring two largescale orchestral works: the 1947 ballet Orpheus and the energetic, neo-classical Symphony in C. These frame a pair of religious works: what he called his ‘pocket requiem’, Requiem Canticles, and his exuberant arrangement of the music of J. S. Bach in Vom Himmel Hoch. Two of his many tributes to great contemporaries – in this case the writers T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley
complete the programme.

6.15pm – Pre Concert Talk – The three final instalments of the CBSO’s epic journey through the complete works of Stravinsky – introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Anthony Burton

£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50

Jac van Steen conductor
City of Birmingham Orchestra
Ex Cathedra Choir

Stravinsky Orpheus 31’
Stravinsky Introitus – T. S. Eliot in memoriam 4’
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles 15’
Stravinsky Chorale Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch 11’
Stravinsky Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam 5’
Stravinsky Symphony in C 28’