What does it mean to be modern? 100 years on, Southbank Sinfonia explores three works from composers who challenged every preconceived notion about the music that preceded them, at a time when the art world was remaking itself anew.
An unnamed woman wonders through a moonlit forest in search of her lover. Delivered in one intensely demanding monologue for its soprano, Schoenberg’s Erwartung is a radical new vision of an opera. A psychologically fuelled work that demands everything from Wagnerian power to glistening string sounds, Schoenberg wrote that the aim of Erwartung was to “represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, stretching it to half an hour.”
Experience the mesmerising nature of this work by award-winning soprano, Philippa Boyle.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 18:10 with Lee Reynolds and Southbank Sinfonia musicians Francis Bushell and Maggie Lamelas.