BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 28 - Songs of Wars I Have Seen (320kbps .mp3)


Live at the BBC Proms: The London Sinfonietta & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment revive the extraordinary work written for them seventeen years ago.

01. Goebbels, Heiner - Songs of Wars I Have Seen
01a. Introduction to Heiner Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I Have Seen
01b. Outro to Songs of Wars I Have Seen
London Sinfonietta
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Chloe Rooke (conductor)

In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.

Presented by Andrew McGregor live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

First broadcast: 9 August 2024
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