Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5

27 Sep 2017, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 27 Sep 2017 Next Event

91热爆 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5

19:30 Wed 27 Sep 2017 Barbican, London

Richard Strauss imagining a man鈥檚 dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius鈥檚 Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.

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Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius Symphonies

A taste of what's to come in the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra 17-18 season at the Barbican

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Programme

- - Richard Strauss
  - Death and Transfiguration
- - Alban Berg
  - Violin Concerto
- - Jean Sibelius
  - Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

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Sakari Oramo conducts music by his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, launching a Sibelius theme for this season鈥檚 Barbican concerts, which includes the complete Sibelius Symphonies. The exhilarating Fifth Symphony, which culminates in the evocation of swans in flight, starts this magnificent journey.

The young Richard Strauss imagines the end of a man鈥檚 journey through life as his strength ebbs away and his mind reviews his achievements in Death and Transfiguration. Following this, Russian violinist Alina Pogotskina performs Alban Berg鈥檚 Violin Concerto - an intense and beautifully sensitive hymn devoted to Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma (n茅e Mahler) and Walter Gropius, who died aged 18.

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91热爆 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sibelius Symphonies

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