Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann with music by Sibelius, Rautavaara, Stravinsky, Britten and Strauss.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert that starts with Sibelius’s rousing and patriotic tone poem Finlandia. The programme also includes a performance of Helen Grime's Everyone Sang, a piece in which she imagined "the orchestra as being made up of many voices, capable of producing a unified and joyful melody that could also break off into many individual and varied strands of song. The piece juxtaposes a sense of celebratory joy with a sense of melancholy." The afternoon ends with Sir Andrew Davis leading the orchestra with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar’s equally rousing choral work The Music Makers.

2.00pm
Sibelius: Finlandia
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 3 Gift of Dreams
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol - Symphonic Poem
Olli Mustonen (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

3.00pm
Britten: A Boy Was Born
BBC Singers
Matthew Halls

3.30pm
Strauss: Suite in B flat, Op.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Boyd (conductor)

3.55pm
Helen Grime: Everyone Sang
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

4.10pm
Elgar: The Music Makers
Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chrous and Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)