Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC PromsProgramme
| Programme to include: | ||
| Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) | Violin Concerto in D minor | |
| Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) | Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (original version, 1915) |
Performers
| Pekka Kuusisto | Violin |
| Taito Hoffrén | Singer |
| Ilona Korhonen | Singer |
| Minna-Liisa Tammela | Singer |
| Vilma Timonen | Kantele |
| Timo Alakotila | Harmonium |
| BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | |
| Thomas Dausgaard | Conductor |
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony’s original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.
