Choir
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date night
- First-timer friendly
- Date
- Fri, 26 Feb 2027
- Time
- 19:30
- Venue
- Barbican
- City
- London
- Conductor
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Tickets
- See booking site
You'll be taken to the ensemble's official site.
Summary
Jukka-Pekka Saraste leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Barbican in Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, featuring baritone Morgan Pearse in John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser.
Why it's fantastic
John Adams sets Walt Whitman’s poignant poetry to music in a quiet meditation on nursing, featuring baritone Morgan Pearse as the solo voice. The mood shifts entirely after the interval for Shostakovich’s massive symphony, a work of terrifying power and scale that was suppressed by Soviet authorities for decades.
Programme
- 01John Adams - The Wound-Dresser
- 02Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 4 in C minor
Soloists
- Morgan Pearse
