MARQUEE TV PERFORMANCE NOTES
2020: Interrupted stories – Streamed concert
VIVALDI Overture, La verità in cimento
SPOHR Symphony No. 2
HONEGGER Pastorale d’fété
BLISS Rout
JAMES MACMILLAN Sinfonietta
Mary Bevan soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Life comes at you fast. In 1720, Vivaldi composes a dazzling overture for a carnival. In 1820, after
two decades of war and revolution, Louis Spohr salutes his hero Beethoven in a symphony that
pulses with drama. In 1920, Arthur Honegger watches sunrise over the Swiss Alps, and Arthur
Bliss throws a riotous cocktail party. 2020 hasn’t been quite what anyone expected, either: and
while we can’t (yet) end our 2020 Vision series the way we’d planned, with Sir James MacMillan’s
new Christmas Oratorio, we’re finishing with a musical tale of hope shattered – and then restored –
from one of Britain’s most original living composers.
Part of the LPO's 2020 Vision, the concert was filmed on 10 Dec at the RFH ready for streaming
on 30 Dec. The performance will be free for 7 days, so one doesn't have to subscribe to Marquee
TV to watch/listen to the concert.