Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Songs of Wars I Have Seen
London Sinfonietta

Early Music at the BBC Proms
Fri 9 August 2024
Royal Albert Hall
10:30pm
£10-28
Full Event Details
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’s 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.
Venue Details & Map
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Afternoon Tea at the 3 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
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