London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Marina Piccinini

Philip Glass: The Light for orchestra
Aaron Jay Kernis: Flute Concerto (UK premiere)
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Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (Contemplation No.1)
John Adams: Dr Atomic Symphony

Hear three classic American works, by Philip Glass, Charles Ives and John Adams, as well as a new flute concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis.

A trumpet asks Charles Ives' Unanswered Question – and throughout a century of American music, composers have offered their answers. They've been as luminous and lush as Philip Glass' The Light, and simultaneously as dark and as dazzling as John Adams' Dr Atomic Symphony: an electrifying orchestral summary of his 2005 opera about the dawn of the nuclear age. Find your own 21st-century truth and be ready for a few surprises, as Marina Piccinini gives the UK premiere of a vibrant new flute concerto, written especially for her by the American maverick Aaron Jay Kernis.