Prom 20: Pekka Kuusisto and the 91Èȱ¬ SSO
Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the 91Èȱ¬ SSO in Sibelius's Symphony No 5 in E flat and, with Pekka Kuusisto, the composer's Violin Concerto in D minor.
Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ SSO and Thomas Dausgaard plus Pekka Kuusisto. Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony performed with special Finnish folk music introductions.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson
Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
8.15 Interval
Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Broad and Professor Daniel Grimley about the music in tonight's concert.
8.35
Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915)
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Taito Hoffrén (singer)
Ilona Korhonen (singer)
Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer)
Vilma Timonen (kantele)
Timo Alakotila (harmonium)
91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth.
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony’s original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.
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Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. -
Jean Sibelius
Humoresque No. 4, Op. 89 No. 2 in G minor
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 5 in E flat major
Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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Malcolm Arnold
4 Scottish dances Op.59 (Scottish Waltz)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
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