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BBC SO/Oramo

,Barbican Hall
Sakari Oramo reaching for the stars as he conducts

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s boldest and most revealing symphony alongside his charming Humoresques, beginning with a masterpiece of orchestral virtuosity from Britain.

When Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony was first performed in 1911, it left its audience dumbstruck. Gone was the rousing heroism that had galvanized a nation. In its place there was music that seemed to be written for the composer himself and nobody else – ‘only his private thoughts,’ in the words of one critic. This revolutionary symphony, which reveals all musically and psychologically, is both a picture of fear and loneliness and a magnificent landscape in sound. Sakari Oramo conducts it here after the wholly different world of the composer’s Humoresques, and a piece that made its composer’s name overnight: Thomas Adès’s virtuosic, groovy Asyla.

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The performance will finish at approximately 9.30pm. It includes a 20 minute interval.

Programme

Thomas Adès Asyla
Sibelius Six Humoresques
Symphony No 4

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Alina Pogotskina violin

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