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Proms 2024 Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
22:30 Fri 9 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
The London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together to perform Heiner Goebbels鈥檚 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 17 years after they gave the work鈥檚 premiere
The London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together to perform Heiner Goebbels鈥檚 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 17 years after they gave the work鈥檚 premiere

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In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels鈥檚 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.

There will be no interval

Broadcast live on 成人论坛 Radio 3

Image: Chloe Rooke 漏 Nick Rutter