London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Isabelle van Keulen

Giya Kancheli: Mourned by the wind - liturgy for viola & orchestra
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Bohuslav Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9 in E minor

Take a tour through 20th century music's darker moments in this concert of works by Kancheli, Martinu and Vaughan Williams.

From the depths of the Second World War, Bohuslav Martinu cries out in anguish and rage. In Soviet Georgia, Giya Kancheli mourns a friend with a searingly beautiful musical liturgy, music stained with tears, performed by one of the world's finest viola players.

The 85-year-old Vaughan Williams rages against the dying of the light in a Ninth Symphony of breath-taking ambition and imaginative fire. Three great composers, three extraordinary testimonies; as Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra invite you to discover a different face of a century we all thought we knew.