Prom 67: Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius

8 Sep 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sun 8 Sep 2019 Next Event

Proms 2019 Prom 67: Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius

19:30 Sun 8 Sep 2019 Royal Albert Hall

Sakari Oramo conducts a wide-ranging concert inspired by the natural world with Sibelius鈥檚 stirring Fifth Symphony at its heart. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen鈥檚 The Only One.

Programme

- - Modest Mussorgsky
  - A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)(11 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1898
- - Louis Andriessen
  - The Only One麻豆官网首页入口 co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and NTR ZaterdagMatinee: UK premiere
- - interval
- - Judith Weir
  - Forest(13 mins)
- - Jean Sibelius
  - Symphony No. 5 in E flat major(32 mins)(final version, 1919)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

A Prom celebrating Nature in all her moods. A flight of 16 swans was the catalyst for Sibelius鈥檚 stirring Fifth Symphony, with its ambiguous, mysterious ending, while for Judith Weir it was nature鈥檚 process 鈥� forests sprouting outwards from a single seed, endlessly growing and multiplying 鈥� that offered inspiration.

Nature turns menacing in Mussorgsky鈥檚 vivid tone-poem A Night on the Bare Mountain. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of The Only One by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, who turned 80 this year.

Approx. end time: 21:30

Image: Nora Fischer 漏 Sarah Wijzenbeek