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Sibelius’s First
The music
- Price Andante moderato for string orchestra (7’)
- Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (16’)
- Gershwin Selections from Porgy and Bess (10’)
The performers
- Nefeli Chadouli* conductor
- Nadine Benjamin soprano
Nadine Benjamin brings her radiance, her insight and her effortless dramatic flair to Eastbourne.
‘Tremendous’ declared one critic when Nadine Benjamin made her Glyndebourne debut, and this dazzling British soprano has a voice that has to be heard to be believed. Today she joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra to bring all her radiance, her insight and her effortless dramatic flair to Eastbourne. How to follow that? Rising star (and LPO Fellow Conductor) Nefeli Chadouli explores the epic vistas and northern forests of Sibelius’s First Symphony: a young genius in a new nation, pouring all his imagination into music as wild as a winter storm and as wonderful as the Northern Lights.
*LPO Fellow Conductor 2025/26. The LPO Conducting Fellowship receives generous support from Gini and Richard Gabbertas.
South London-born soprano Nadine Benjamin is particularly outstanding.
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