IgorFest: Biblical Works

Wed 6 May 2009 7:30pm at Symphony Hall

Sakari Oramo credit watsongallery.co.uk)

Sakari Oramo credit watsongallery.co.uk)

Though he was never especially strict in his Church attendance or attitudes, religion played an increasingly important part in Stravinsky’s output, and his later works based on Biblical texts are among his most profound and original. Tonight Sakari Oramo offers up four varied pieces based on Old Testament stories, culminating in Threni, Stravinsky’s extraordinary setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. There is also a New Testament counterpart in A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer.

6.15pm Pre-concert talk – Biblical Works

£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50

Sakari Oramo – conductor
Roderick Williams -baritone

Stravinsky: Babel 5’
Stravinsky: Abraham and Isaac 10’
Stravinsky: The Flood 24’
Stravinsky: A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer 15’
Stravinsky: Threni 30’

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