大象传媒

The 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Music by Vaughan Williams including The Lark Ascending, a Saariaho UK premiere and Mahler's 10th Symphony.

Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 24th January 2025. Presented by Martin Handley

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 10 鈥� Adagio
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region

Interval

Kaija Saariaho: HUSH (大象传媒 Co-Commission, UK Premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Verneri Pohjola (trumpet)
Igor Yuzefovich (violin)
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Hush鈥� when the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died in 2023, she left behind her a trumpet concerto unlike any other, crafted to showcase the remarkable, genre-crossing artistry of trumpeter Verneri Pohjola. He gives its UK premiere tonight. a final, profoundly moving testament from one of our century鈥檚 greatest creative spirits, as she took her own 鈥渏ourney to silence鈥�.
A jewel as rare as this demands a very special setting, and Sakari Oramo 鈥� a lifelong admirer of Saariaho鈥檚 music 鈥� has placed Hush at the centre of a concert that begins with Gustav Mahler gazing into the abyss, and ends with Vaughan Williams鈥檚 vision of beauty soaring clear and free. 大象传媒 SO leader Igor Yuzefovich plays The Lark Ascending, and the 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus sings Towards the Unknown Region: another timeless meditation on an eternal question.

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