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Other Presences: The Music of Jonathan Harvey
23 September 2017 at 7.30pm
Other Presences: The Music of Jonathan Harvey
LSO St Luke's, London 161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/BBC Singers Haunting, spiritual, ecstatic: Jonathan Harvey’s music blurs the boundaries between east and west, body and soul. Its lucid, bell-like resonances and pioneering use of electronics will take you on a journey into new and transformative worlds.
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco is an electro-acoustic masterpiece. Spinning sonorities ring out as it blends sound samples of a cathedral bell and the voice of a chorister.
The looped, harmonised trumpet parts in Other Presences weave sounds that echo the music of Tibetan Buddhist purification rituals.
Forms of emptiness sets the vivid flashes of joy in poetry by E.E Cummings against a Buddhist Sanskrit chant, creating moments that feel transient and scarcely real.
Experience Harvey’s compelling music among Britten’s virtuosic cantata AMDG and a new work by Wim Henderickx, whose music reflects his fascination for eastern sound-worlds and philosophies.
Benjamin Britten : A.M.D.G. Op.17
Jonathan Harvey : Mortuos plango, vivos voco
Jonathan Harvey : I Love the Lord
Jonathan Harvey : The Annunication
Jonathan Harvey : Other Presences
Jonathan Harvey : Forms of Emptiness
Wim Henderickx : Blossomings
Jonathan Harvey : How could the soul not take flight
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