4 Apr 2025, Barbican, London
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
About This Event
“Let us fly without rest or pause into the land of my dreams…” For Claude Debussy, the poetry of Baudelaire conjured new and ravishing colours, just waiting to be transformed into sound. Over in 1890s Vienna, meanwhile, those same verses unlocked dark ions and wild (sometimes dangerous) imaginings – a glorious, iridescent turmoil into which Alban Berg dived headlong.
So don’t expect Ryan Wigglesworth to hold back, as he s the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of shimmering hues and pure, intoxicating sensuality. Soprano Sophie Bevan s him on this journey into delirium – perfect music for a singer who’s been described as ”magnetic”. And to finish, the upper voices of the BBC Symphony Chorus bring a special enchantment to Debussy’s luminous Nocturnes.