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Published: 13 December 2007

Mozart and the man with the golden flute

SIR JAMES GALWAY
Barbican

SIR James Galway, nicknamed the man with the golden flute, joins the London Symphony Orchestra on December 20 to perform Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto in C major, with LSO Principal Harp, Bryn Lewis.
As the most televised and recorded classical artist performing today, Sir James has made himself a legend, a modern musical master whose virtuosity on the flute is equaled only by his limitless ambitions and vision.
Mozart famously overcame his distaste for both flute and harp to create this sweetly lyrical concerto.
Elsewhere in the programme the Romantic symphony and the great French organ tradition come together to momentous effect in the form of Saint-Saëns’s uplifting Third Symphony (Organ Symphony), which also benefits from its composer’s irresistible melodic writing.
French virtuoso organist Daniel Roth is soloist and his son François-Xavier Roth conducts.
The concert opens with Dukas’s best-known work, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which charts the misfortunes of a trainee magician who, in his master’s absence, bites off more than he can chew – something Sir James could never be accused of.

° Sir James is at the Barbican on December 20. £6-£30. 0845 120 7590

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