NYO Odyssey

Britten’s Four Sea Interludes oscillates between compassion and fury, as a community seek a scapegoat for the unexplained death of a child: expressed through musical seascapes of exquisite eerie delicacy, and ominous, brooding ferocity.

Anna Clyne’s mesmerising RIFT is an immersive, edge of the seat experience where the orchestra becomes a restless visceral landscape, propelling us from darkness to shining light.

Strauss’s spiritual crisis is dramatised in Also Sprach Zarathustra. He was seeking “… by means of music an idea of the development of the human race”. The opening symphonic sunrise was immortalised in Stanley Kubrick’s cult movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, ringing out hope in our potential to take on life’s epic challenges.