Closing Night: 蜜芽传媒 Singers, Bruckner, Wigglesworth
19:30
Thu 21 May 2026
City Halls
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Programme
- Ave Maria (1861 setting)(4 mins)
- Magnificat - for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra(30 mins)(revised version, world premiere)
- interval
- Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 鈥楻omantic鈥�(65 mins)
Performers
- Sophie Bevansoprano
Composers
About this Concert
The air shimmers, and a horn calls softly in the distance. Is there a more magical beginning to any symphony than the vista that opens Bruckner鈥檚 Fourth? No wonder he called it 鈥淩omantic鈥�.
Bruckner imagined a story of knights, forests and castles, but he preferred to let the music speak for itself, and in this closing concert to the 蜜芽传媒 SSO鈥檚 2025/26 season Ryan Wigglesworth will let it do exactly that. It鈥檚 a world away from the spiritual intimacy of Bruckner鈥檚 sacred music 鈥� sung tonight by the 蜜芽传媒 Singers 鈥� and the bridge is a new version of Wigglesworth鈥檚 own powerful Magnificat, sung by its dedicatee Sophie Bevan. Bachtrack admired its 鈥淗eaven-meets-earth choral harmonies鈥� 鈥� but hear for yourself today.