Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Bax, Arnold (1883-1953) | The Garden of Fand | |
| Dean, Brett (b. 1961) | Viola Concerto | |
| Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934) | Symphony no. 1 in A flat major, Op.55 |
Performers
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Sakari Oramo | Conductor |
| Brett Dean | Viola |
Sakari Oramo continues his exploration of great British orchestral music with Elgar’s ground-breaking first symphony and Bax's luminous tone poem The Garden of Fand.
While Bax's work evokes the Irish legend of the siren Fand in her watery world, Elgar wrote of his masterful symphony: 'There is no programme beyond a wide experience of human life with a great charity and a massive hope in the future.' We welcome back Australian composer and violist Brett Dean to play his concerto for his ‘curiously beautiful, somewhat enigmatic instrument’.
