BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5 - BBC Symphony Orchestra

27 Sep 2017, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 27 Sep 2017 Next Event

Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5

19:30 Wed 27 Sep 2017 Barbican, London

Richard Strauss imagining a man’s dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.

Performances & Interviews

01:30

Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius Symphonies

A taste of what's to come in the BBC Symphony Orchestra 17-18 season at the Barbican

Sep '17BBC

Programme

- - Richard Strauss
  - Death and Transfiguration
- - Alban Berg
  - Violin Concerto
- - Jean Sibelius
  - Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

Performers

Alina Pogostkina
violin
violin
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Composers

Concert Information

Sakari Oramo conducts music by his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, launching a Sibelius theme for this season’s Barbican concerts, which includes the complete Sibelius Symphonies. The exhilarating Fifth Symphony, which culminates in the evocation of swans in flight, starts this magnificent journey.

The young Richard Strauss imagines the end of a man’s journey through life as his strength ebbs away and his mind reviews his achievements in Death and Transfiguration. Following this, Russian violinist Alina Pogotskina performs Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto - an intense and beautifully sensitive hymn devoted to Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma (née Mahler) and Walter Gropius, who died aged 18.

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