Sat 21 Jun 2025

• 19:30

  BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival

  Snape Maltings Concert Hall

  This first BBC Symphony Orchestra concert features two masterpieces by Richard Strauss in which darkness is transformed into light. Featured artist Leila Josefowicz plays Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto, and Anu Komsi sings Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

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  This first BBC Symphony Orchestra concert features two masterpieces by Richard Strauss in which darkness is transformed into light. Featured artist Leila Josefowicz plays Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto, and Anu Komsi sings Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

  Programme

  • • • Daniel Kidane
      • Awake(11 mins)
    • • Helen Grime
      • Violin Concerto(22 mins)UK premiere
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)
      • Four Last Songs(24 mins)

  Performers

  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor
  • Anu Komsi

    soprano
    soprano
  • Leila Josefowicz

    violin
    violin
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra

  Composers

  • Daniel Kidane
  • Helen Grime
  • Richard Strauss

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