Grisey: Quatre Chants
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 8XX , [Venue Details]Experience Gérard Grisey’s profound meditation on death brought to life by the London Sinfonietta.
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Grisey: 4 Chants pour franchir le seuil
Perhaps now, more than ever, it is a piece for our times.
A rare opportunity awaits to experience French composer Gérard Grisey’s stunningly dark and disorientating Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, presented by the London Sinfonietta. This mighty piece offers a journey through intricate collisions of fragmented melody and harmony.
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, which roughly translates to Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold, explores the boundary between life and death – a significance that is elevated by Grisey’s passing soon after its completion, preventing his attendance at the world premiere of the piece by the London Sinfonietta and George Benjamin in 1999.
As a pioneering figure in the spectral music movement – music intended to imitate the spectral qualities of a sound – Grisey explores transformation and transfigurations in sound, calling on microtones and rapid gong acrobatics to conjure these profound and disruptive sound worlds.
The piece stands as one of the most significant concert works of the late 20th century, and calls upon soprano and ensemble to create a musical meditation on death divided into four sections: the death of an angel, civilisation, the voice, and humanity.
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Admission
Min: £13.25
Max: £47.00
Performer name: London Sinfonietta, Jack Sheen - conductor
Other key names: Nina Guo - soprano
Age restriction: For ages 7+
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Grisey: Quatre Chants
Friday, 28 Nov 2025 @7.30pm
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 8XXMore Information
Experience Gérard Grisey’s profound meditation on death brought to life by the London Sinfonietta.
Programme includes: -
Grisey: 4 Chants pour franchir le seuil
Perhaps now, more than ever, it is a piece for our times.
A rare opportunity awaits to experience French composer Gérard Grisey’s stunningly dark and disorientating Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, presented by the London Sinfonietta. This mighty piece offers a journey through intricate collisions of fragmented melody and harmony.
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, which roughly translates to Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold, explores the boundary between life and death – a significance that is elevated by Grisey’s passing soon after its completion, preventing his attendance at the world premiere of the piece by the London Sinfonietta and George Benjamin in 1999.
As a pioneering figure in the spectral music movement – music intended to imitate the spectral qualities of a sound – Grisey explores transformation and transfigurations in sound, calling on microtones and rapid gong acrobatics to conjure these profound and disruptive sound worlds.
The piece stands as one of the most significant concert works of the late 20th century, and calls upon soprano and ensemble to create a musical meditation on death divided into four sections: the death of an angel, civilisation, the voice, and humanity.
Admission
Min: £13.25
Max: £47.00
Performer name: London Sinfonietta, Jack Sheen - conductor
Other key names: Nina Guo - soprano
Age restriction: For ages 7+
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