BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 ('Pastoral')
BRETT DEAN Pastoral Symphony
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Flos Campi

Nicholas Collon conductor
Brett Dean viola
Choir of London
Aurora Orchestra

Weaving together the rich themes of the 2011 City of London Festival – the natural world, birdsong, and the Antipodes – this programme offers three contrasting visions of the pastoral idyll, enriched by an exciting new visual art collaboration. Beethoven’s monumental Sixth Symphony is juxtaposed with the Australian composer Brett Dean’s Pastoral Symphony, a meditation on the beauty of birdsong, and its inexorable silencing at the hands of man. Dean also appears as viola soloist alongside the Choir of London for a performance of Vaughan Williams’ ravishing Flos Campi.

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