Fri 1 Dec 2023

• 19:30

  Fantastic Voyages

  Barbican, London

  Beethoven’s Eroica, Ravel’s exotica, and the adventures of the Argonauts: mezzo Jennifer Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and no emotion is off-limits.

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  Beethoven’s Eroica, Ravel’s exotica, and the adventures of the Argonauts: mezzo Jennifer Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and no emotion is off-limits.

  Programme

  • • • Alice Mary Smith
      • Overture: Jason, or The Argonauts and the Sirens
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Shéhérazade
    • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’

  Performers

  • Jennifer Johnston

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra

  Composers

  • Alice Mary Smith
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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  Also part of

  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2023 - 24 Season