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February — December 2020 We explore the journey of music with pioneering works that have defined the sound of the 21st century, alongside music that has stood the test of time, written exactly 100 and 200 years before. We use this opportunity to look back as a way of projecting into the future. What will music look, sound and feel like a century from now?
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Just as the defining masterpieces of Beethoven and his contemporaries punctuated the first two decades of the 19th century, this series features pieces that provide a snapshot of the definitive sound of the 21st – each one separated by exactly two centuries from Beethoven’s world. A piece from 1801 encounters a piece from 2001. Beethoven meets Adès, Dutilleux and Knussen. Louis Spohr encounters Einojuhani Rautavaara. Between them, in a world simultaneously like and entirely unlike that of 1820 or 2020, comes the generation of 1900–1920: the composers of the fin de siècle who saw a century remade in war. Who realised that Sibelius’s Second Symphony came exactly a century after Beethoven’s, and that Scriabin, Ravel and Enescu all form part of the same big picture? 2020 Vision brings them together to hear what they have to say to each other, and to us: a fascinatingly fresh perspective on familiar classics, forgotten masterpieces, and the must-hear works of the 21st century.
London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office 020 7840 4242 Mon–Fri 10.00am–5.00pm lpo.org.uk Transaction fees: £3.00 online; £3.50 by phone
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Southbank Centre Ticket Office 020 3879 9555 southbankcentre.co.uk Transaction fees: £3.00 online; £3.50 by phone No transaction fee for in-person bookings, Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles.
THREE CENTURIES COLLIDE Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Part one
February — December 2020