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.

Sakari Oramo directs scintillating forces in a divine setting by Britten of W.H. Auden’s poetry; its war-torn angst is dissolved in the triumphant resolution of Sibelius’ grand Fifth Symphony.