SOUTHBANK CENTRE

International Voices is a brand new series at Southbank Centre that takes a new look at what is meant by a great voice.

Classical Indian singers Shubha Mudgal and Bombay Jayashri take part, as do western classical stars such as Anna Netrebko and David Daniels. The brilliantly unclassifi able vocalist Barb Jungr performs an evening of music by great songwriters, including Jacques Brel, John Lennon and Randy Newman, while Mark Padmore works with renowned director Katie Mitchell in an evening exploring Samuel Beckett’s near obsession with Schubert, through a staged performance that includes Schubert’s Winterreise.

The series opens with three concerts featuring one of the world’s great baritones, Matthias Goerne, who gives a solo recital and two concerts with Southbank Centre’s Resident Orchestras. With the London Philharmonic Orchestra, he performs Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Gesangsszene, written in the aftermath of World War Two, and with the London Sinfonietta he gives the world premiere of a specially commissioned work from the strikingly original Austrian composer Thomas Larcher. He performs contrasting approaches to texts by Michelangelo by Shostakovich and Hugo Wolf in his solo recital, as well as Brahms’ last song cycle, the biblical settings known as Four Serious Songs.

Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky perform favourite songs from the French, Italian and Russian operatic repertoire on Tuesday 19 May 2009.

Tickets go on sale to Southbank Centre Members on 26 August, at 10am.
Tickets go on sale to the public on 1 September, at 10am.
 
For your best chance to get tickets become a Southbank Centre Member online or phone 0871 663 2580.

Please note: if you are booking online for more than one series, you will need to book each series in separate transactions in order to receive the appropriate series discount. Alternatively, please call the Ticket Office on 0871 663 2500.