BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Causton, Schumann and Brahms - BBC Symphony Orchestra

23 Jan 2019, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 23 Jan 2019 Next Event

Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Causton, Schumann and Brahms

19:30 Wed 23 Jan 2019 Barbican, London

Two great Romantic works – Schumann’s heart-on-sleeve Cello Concerto and Brahms’ Third Symphony – celebrate the friendship and musical kinship between the two composers.

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Programme

- - Richard Causton
  - Ik zeg: NU (I Say: NOW)world premiere; BBC commission
- - Robert Schumann
  - Cello Concerto in A minor
- - Johannes Brahms
  - Symphony No. 3 in F major

Performers

Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
Steven Isserlis
cello
cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Composers

About This Event

British cellist Steven Isserlis returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season to perform Schumann’s pioneering cello concerto – the work that first gave this instrument Romantic voice. Where Schumann looks to the future, Brahms looks back to Beethoven in his taut, tightly constructed Third Symphony, once described as ‘the most nearly perfect’ of all the composer’s symphonies. An exciting world premiere of Richard Causton’s newly commissioned Ig zeg: Nu (*I say: Now*) opens the programme.