BBC SO 2015-16 Season Sakari Oramo conducts Elgar Symphony No. 1 - BBC Symphony Orchestra

13 Apr 2016, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 13 Apr 2016 Next Event

Sakari Oramo conducts Elgar Symphony No. 1

19:30 Wed 13 Apr 2016 Main Stage

Sakari Oramo continues his exploration of great British orchestral music with Elgar’s ground-breaking first symphony and Bax's luminous tone poem The Garden of Fand

Programme

- - Arnold Bax
  - The Garden of Fand
- - Brett Dean
  - Viola Concerto
- - Edward Elgar
  - Symphony No. 1 in A flat major

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
Brett Dean
viola
viola

Composers

Concert Information

Sakari Oramo continues his exploration of great British orchestral music with Elgar’s ground-breaking first symphony and Bax's luminous tone-poem The Garden of Fand. While Bax's work evokes the Irish legend of the siren Fand in her watery world, Elgar wrote of his masterful symphony: 'There is no programme beyond a wide experience of human life with a great charity and a massive hope in the future.' We welcome back Australian composer and violist Brett Dean to play his concerto for his ‘curiously beautiful, somewhat enigmatic instrument’.