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May
21
Vortex Temporum: Daniel Pioro, Michael Morpurgo & London Sinfonietta
May 21, 2023 @ 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
£15 – £45
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This concert focuses on our perceptions of time, through two very different yet complementary masterpieces. The London Sinfonietta and Daniel Pioro will perform Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum, a work that takes us through three time frames: ‘normal’, human time, the ‘expanded’ time of whales and the ‘compressed’ time of birds, via this pioneering spectralist composer’s virtuoso imagination. This late masterwork fulfilled Grisey’s vision of a music that transfigures our experience of time. On a symphonic scale, revealing dizzying dances and lavish harmonic language, the music carries us on a journey through boundary-breaking sound-worlds.
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Gérard Grisey Vortex temporum
Daniel Pioro violin
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Sir Michael Morpurgo narrator
London Sinfonietta
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