BBC SO 2015-16 Season Sakari Oramo conducts Strauss - BBC Symphony Orchestra

11 Dec 2015, Barbican, London

19:30 Fri 11 Dec 2015 Next Event

Sakari Oramo conducts Strauss

19:30 Fri 11 Dec 2015 Main Stage

Chief conductor Sakari Oramo leads the ascent of two great orchestral mountains by Hovhaness and Strauss, which frame a delightful new percussion concerto.

Programme

- - Alan Hovhaness
  - Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain
- - Andrew Norman
  - SwitchBBC co-commission UK premiere
- - Richard Strauss
  - An Alpine Symphony

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
Colin Currie
percussion
percussion

Composers

Concert Information

Alan Hovhaness's Mysterious Mountain is one of his best-loved works, a symphony of spiritual transcendence and the perfect foil to Strauss's grandly ambitious Alpine adventure. Dubbed 'the world's finest and most daring percussionist' Colin Currie is the dedicatee of Switch, a new work from the exciting young American composer Andrew Norman.

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BBC SO 2015-16 Season Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo BBC SO 2015-16 Premieres

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