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title: "Christopher Jessup: Sunrise"
description: How high can new classical music lift us?
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# [Christopher Jessup: Sunrise](https://simeonmorrow.com/vienna-live/christopher-jessup-sunrise)

 Written by [Vienna Live with Simeon Morrow](https://simeonmorrow.com/vienna-live/author/vienna-live-with-simeon-morrow) | Apr 29, 2025 9:12:51 PM

NEW YORK CITY: Richard Strauss’ most famous symphonic works are not symphonies, but “tone poems”. Deeply Romantic in spirit, these tone poems at once reveal a physical and metaphysical event. By the conclusion of the work, we feel to have been transformed into a higher state of being.

Classical composer Christopher Jessup’s newest symphonic work, *Svítání* (Czech for “sunrise”), implies a connection to Romantic transcendence. Together with the composer, we’ll experience the London Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of *Svítání* on Navona Records.

How high will this new classical music lift us? Let’s discover the new spirit of symphonic music!

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