Dima Slobodeniouk Conducts London Philharmonic Orchestra

Inspiring works from 1803, 1903 and 2003, by Beethoven, Ravel, and Jörg Widmann, continue the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2020 Vision project.

Two explosive chords open the ‘Eroica’ Symphony: and just like that, Ludwig van Beethoven unleashed two turbulent centuries of musica innovation, exploration and revolution.

The ‘Eroica’ still delivers a formidable shock today, and Jörg Widmann’s huge, haunting and startlingly emotional Lied for Orchestra, written exactly 200 years later, is just one way of dealing with the aftermath.

And for another, join conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and mezzo-soprano Christine Rice in the year 1903, as they board Maurice Ravel’s ship of dreams, Shéhérazade, and drift away to a place ‘where fantasy sleeps like an empress’.

Programme

Widmann: Lied for orchestra
Ravel Shéhérazade
– interval –
Beethoven Symphony No.3 (Eroica)

Performers

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk Conductor
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano