Nielsen: The Symphonies
Sat 11 Oct 2014 Barbican Hall
The BBC SO and Sakari Oramo launch their Nielsen Symphony Cycle
The BBC SO and Sakari Oramo launch their Nielsen Symphony Cycle
Programme
- Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’
- Violin Concerto No 4 in D major, K 218
- Symphony No 1 in G minor
Performers
- Sakari Oramoconductor
- Augustin HadelichViolin
Sakari Oramo conducts Nielsen and Tchaikovsky
Opening the Nielsen cycle is the assured and lavishly lyrical First Symphony, written in 1892 but already bearing the unmistakable stamp of its creator. Tracing an eventful journey from shadowy G minor through to a radiant C major finale, the work is illuminated by sparely graceful wind- writing and glistening brass. As Nielsen completed his First, Tchaikovsky embarked on what would be his symphonic swansong, the great No. 6 or Pathétique, of which he said, ‘I believe it comes into being as the best of my works’. As an interlude there is Mozart’s youthful violin concerto in D major, performed by young German soloist Augustin Hadelich – ‘a virtuoso out of the Golden Age’, according to The New Yorker.
