‘What is crucially important when we perform is to be able to tell a story, to be narrators,’ says Gianandrea Noseda, LSO Principal Guest Conductor.
‘We have to live the story, otherwise we look like we’re reproducing something that we don’t believe in. Music will not change the world, but music talks to the hearts of people … and if music changes the hearts of people, people will change the world.’
Gianandrea Noseda’s concerts in the 2023/24 season embrace this philosophy, with works of intricate storytelling and intense emotional power: Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony, a work both deeply private and deeply felt; the dark ambivalence of Prokofiev’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies; and Shostakovich’s Third, as Noseda and the LSO near the conclusion of their cycle of the composer’s symphonies. Noseda closes the season with two performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a blazingly exciting choral extravaganza.
