Performances of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at BBC Symphony Orchestra

Fri 7 Nov 2025

• 19:30

  Oramo conducts Adès, Coleridge-Taylor and Sibelius

  Barbican, London

  Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.

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  Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.

  Programme

  • • • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
      • Symphonic Variations on an African Air
    • • Thomas Adès
      • Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'
    • • interval
    • • Jean Sibelius
      • Lemminkäinen Suite, Op 22

  Performers

  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor
  • Christian Tetzlaff

    violin
    violin
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra

  Composers

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Thomas Adès
  • Jean Sibelius

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  Part of

  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season