London Philharmonic Orchestra: Seven Deadly Sins

SEVEN DEADLY SINS
 
Part of The Music in You
 
Luís Tinoco  Accordion Concerto (UK premiere)
Weill  The Seven Deadly Sins
Edward Gardner  Conductor
João Barradas  Accordion
Danielle de Niese  Anna
Ross Ramgobin  Brother
Callum Thorpe  Mother
Zwakele Tshabalala  Father
Amar Muchhala  Brother
 
Pride is for the wealthy, and in an economic crunch there’s only one way for a girl to get ahead. Bertolt Brecht knew that back in 1933, and Kurt Weill set it to music that stings even while it slips tune after fabulously sleazy tune into your unresisting ears. Social comment has never been so shameless. Soprano extraordinaire Danielle de Niese stars in The Seven Deadly Sins, and accordion sensation João Barradas shows that no instrument is so humble that it can’t burn the house down, as Edward Gardner and the LPO head to Battersea Arts Centre for these two performances to liberate The Music in You.