Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Programme

Dukas, Paul (1865-1935)	The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sheng, Bright (b. 1955)	Let Fly - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (BBC commission, UK première)
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)	Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo	Conductor
Gil Shaham	Violin

This kaleidoscopic programme will delight old and young alike, from Dukas’s vividly imagined Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Bartók’s dizzingly virtuoso celebration of the symphony orchestra. Far Eastern colours and sonorities give Chinese-born composer Bright Sheng’s music a distinctive appeal. Sakari Oramo is joined by distinguished Israeli-American violinist Gil Shaham for a performance of the composer’s recent violin concerto.

Tickets £10 - 32.

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Orchestral sorcery at the Barbican from the BBC Symphony

Emily Owen, 12th May

It is a wonderful thing to hear the full range and colour of a symphony orchestra used to its full effect during the course of an evening's programme and tonight the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo showed the diversity, versatility and sheer joy which for me really brings the music to life.

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