Songs of Wars I Have Seen at BBC Proms
The OAE gave the first performance with the London Sinfonietta of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall, in 2007. We reunite under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
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