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Jac van Steen conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra

Add to my Calendar 28-06-2019 13:05 28-06-2019 15:05 36 Jac van Steen conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra Acclaimed Dutch conductor Jac van Steen returns to the Academy for a Friday Series concert opening with Ligeti’s Lontano. Meaning ‘far away’ or ‘distant’, the title describes the piece’s style, where an eerie atmosphere is created by layers of varying musical lines, which move in different tempos and rhythms, resulting in a haze of unresolved tension. Written in 1967, the work has been used in many film soundtracks, including Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Composed 20 years earlier, Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony of 1947 is an elegy to the tragedies of the First World War. Condemned by the Soviet government for not adhering to party requirements, the work is often considered to be the ‘darker’ twin of the composer’s victorious Fifth Symphony. Royal Academy of Music, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road
Marylebone
London
NW1 5HT
England

Programme

György Ligeti – Lontano
Sergey Prokofiev – Symphony no.6 in E flat minor, Op.111

Performers

Jac van Steen – Conductor

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Acclaimed Dutch conductor Jac van Steen returns to the Academy for a Friday Series concert opening with Ligeti’s Lontano. Meaning ‘far away’ or ‘distant’, the title describes the piece’s style, where an eerie atmosphere is created by layers of varying musical lines, which move in different tempos and rhythms, resulting in a haze of unresolved tension. Written in 1967, the work has been used in many film soundtracks, including Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Composed 20 years earlier, Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony of 1947 is an elegy to the tragedies of the First World War. Condemned by the Soviet government for not adhering to party requirements, the work is often considered to be the ‘darker’ twin of the composer’s victorious Fifth Symphony.

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