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Sakari Oramo Sibelius Cycle: Symphony No 5

Live from the Barbican, Sakari Oramo and the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra begin their Sibelius cycle with with Symphony No 5.

Live from the Barbican. Sakari Oramo begins his Sibelius symphonies cycle with the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra with Symphony No. 5. Alina Pogostkina joins for Berg's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Berg: Violin Concerto

8.15: Interval

8.35
Sibelius; Symphony No 5 in E flat major

Alina Pogostkina, violin
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Sakari Oramo conducts music by his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, launching a Finnish theme for the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra's 2017-18 Barbican Season's 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's journey through life as his strength ebbs away and his mind reviews his achievements in Death and Transfiguration. And Russian violinist Alina Pogostkina performs Alban Berg's 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.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 01:05:53

  • Richard Strauss

    Tod und Verkl盲rung Op.24 Richard Strauss

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Alban Berg

    Violin Concerto

    Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
  • Interval

    Duration: 20:39

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Reiner Wehle. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Georg Kl眉tsch. Performer: Klaus Lohrer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Niklaus Frisch. Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Part 2

    Duration: 38:47

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Post-concert

    Duration: 27:40

  • Jean Sibelius

    Piano sonata in F major Op.12

    Performer: H氓vard Gimse.
    • Sibelius: Piano Music Vol.1: Havard Gimse.
    • Naxos.
    • 007.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu, Op.24 No.1

    Performer: H氓vard Gimse.
    • Sibelius: Piano Music Vol.1: Havard Gimse.
    • Naxos.
    • 010.

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Wed 27 Sep 2017 19:30