BBC SO 2015-16 Season Marin Alsop conducts Judith Bingham and Tchaikovsky - BBC Symphony Orchestra

4 Dec 2015, Barbican, London

19:30 Fri 4 Dec 2015 Next Event

Marin Alsop conducts Judith Bingham and Tchaikovsky

19:30 Fri 4 Dec 2015 Main Stage

Marin Alsop conducts supernatural-inspired works from Tchaikovsky, Judith Bingham, and a UK premiere of James MacMillan's Woman of the Apocalypse

Programme

- - Sir James MacMillan
  - Woman of the ApocalypseUK Premiere
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Symphony No. 5 in E minor
- - Judith Bingham
  - The Angel of Mons

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
conductor
conductor
Nicholas Daniel
oboe
oboe

Composers

Concert Information

Supernatural visitations haunt this evening, both inspired and conducted by the celebrated Marin Alsop. Sir James MacMillan composed his colourful Woman of the Apocalypse for Alsop's own festival in Cabrillo, California. It evokes the mystical appearance of an angelic woman at times of crisis. Judith Bingham's dramatic oboe concerto, The Angel of Mons, depicts just such a shimmering vision, this time at the Battle of Mons, performed by the peerless Nicholas Daniel. It is the 'inscrutable predesintation of fate' that haunts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, transforming tragedy to triumph.