Jul 9

City of London Festival: Bruckner Symphony № 9, Pärt Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

With London Symphony Orchestra, Anton Bruckner and 2 more artists at St. Paul's Cathedral

Went

10
Interested

8

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Date

Thursday 9 July 2009 at 8:00pm

Location

St. Paul's Cathedral
London, United Kingdom

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http://lso.co.uk/detailedeventinfo&showdetailstype=event&detailID=4872

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Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten is one of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's better-known works, written, as the title suggests, in memory of Britten the year after his death in 1976. Pärt describes his work as 'like light going through a prism'. Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, dedicated to 'God the Beloved', was his last. Ill health, a tendancy to revise early symphonies and his eventual death left the symphony without a final movement and so, this evening, we hear only the three completed movements performed.