Nielsen & Sibelius at 150

Two of Scandinavia’s most celebrated composers are marked across the season in the 150th anniversary of their births. Both composers are represented on the First Night of the season, with Nielsen’s Maskarade overture and Sibelius’s Belshazzar’s Feast suite conducted by another of Scandinavia’s most-distinguished musicians, conductor Sakari Oramo. Carl Nielsen’s three concertos for clarinet (22 July), flute (25 August) and violin (9 September) are performed alongside all seven of Jean Sibelius’s symphonies (15, 16 & 17 August).

Published: 23 April 2015

Nielsen at the 2015 Proms:

Maskarade – overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (17 July)

Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson clarinet
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis (22 July)

Wind Quintet
Royal Northern Sinfonia Winds (27 July)

Overture ‘Helios’
Three Motets
Hymnus amoris
Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’
Anna Lucia Richter soprano
David Danholt tenor
Danish National Concert Choir/Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi (20 August)

Flute Concerto
Emily Beynon flute
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (25 August)

Aladdin – excerpts
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård
(3 September)

Springtime on Funen
Violin Concerto
Henning Kraggerud violin
Tiffin Boys’ Choir/Tiffin Girls’ Choir/BBC Singers/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton (9 September)

Sibelius at the 2015 Proms:

Belshazzar’s Feast – suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (17 July)

Finlandia
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Symphony No. 2 in D major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (15 August)

Symphony No. 3 in C major
Symphony No. 4 in A minor
Violin Concerto in D minor
Julian Rachlin violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov
(16 August)

Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
Symphony No. 6 in D minor
Symphony No. 7 in C major
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä (17 August)

Tapiola
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (21 August)

En saga
Kullervo
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano soprano
Waltteri Torikka baritone
Polytech Choir/BBC Symphony Chorus Men/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (29 August)