成人快手

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
27 Sep 2017, Barbican, London
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成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
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.
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 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.