Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Programme

Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins	Conductor
BBC Symphony Chorus

Screening of Sergei Eisenstein's film with live accompaniment of Prokofiev's score. The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s film events are always popular, and this presents one of the great collaborations of all time – Prokofiev’s coruscating score to Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky.
Tickets £15 - 30.

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Alexander Nevsky with live music at the Barbican

Renée Reitsma, 13th February

One of the strange things about classical music is that we often hear pieces played without their original context. Ballet music is often performed as simply orchestral music, and many composers have made suites out of ballet or film music in order to make this even easier.

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