Jerwood Hall
My Heart Swims in Blood
LSO St Luke's Guest Artist
LSO St Luke's
Lara Agar
New Work (Commissioned by FIGURE)
Alex Paxton
New Work (Commissioned by FIGURE)
Oliver Leith
A different fantasie after Locke (Commissioned by FIGURE)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut BWV 199
Frederick Waxman conductor
Lotte Betts-Dean mezzo soprano
FIGURE
The concert will finish at approximately 9pm.
Tickets
£23 (£12 Concession)
+ £1.50 booking fee per transaction
The Concert
Period-performance ensemble FIGURE (‘unequivocally impressive’ – The Guardian) with Artistic Director Frederick Waxman and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean perform baroque and contemporary music: Bach’s ravishing cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut and world premieres from Alex Paxton, Lara Agar and Oliver Leith.
The Music
Historically-informed performance ensemble FIGURE is joined by Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean in the first in a series of concerts of early and contemporary music led by its Artistic Director Frederick Waxman. Centred around Bach’s cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, the concert will feature three world premieres, commissioned by FIGURE, from Alex Paxton, Lara Agar, and Oliver Leith.
The Performers
FIGURE reimagines historical work in the spirit of its original context, and its performances and collaborations have been praised widely in the national press: their recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a percussion concerto was called ‘high-risk, high reward’ in The Times, and their previous performances of baroque and contemporary music had the ensemble described in The Guardian as ‘unequivocally impressive, its sound invigorating, its commitment absolute’. Soloist Lotte Betts-Dean won the 2024 Young Artist Award at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, and has been described by The Guardian as ‘a singer of rich and fearless versatility’.
Booking
Box Office Information
Online at lso.co.uk or barbican.org.uk
By phone on +44 20 7870 2500 (Monday to Friday 12–5.30pm)
In person at the Barbican Centre in advance, or at LSO St Luke’s when doors open (no booking fee)
Members of the Barbican’s Access Scheme can book wheelchair places priced at the lowest price for that event and book a free companion seat. Join the Barbican Access Scheme.
Contact the Barbican Box Office at tickets@barbican.org.uk, get help via WhatsApp or send them a text message on 07380 975000.
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The LSO reserves the right to change artists or programmes if necessary. In the unlikely event of a cancellation, all bookers will receive a refund.
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