Sakari Oramo conducts Brett Dean & Richard Strauss

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

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Dean, Brett (b. 1961)	Knocking at the Hellgate
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op.40

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo	Conductor
Russell Braun	Baritone

BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo launches the 2016-17 season with a UK premiere from Brett Dean and Richard Strauss’s extravagant tone poem.

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Heroism, life and death at the Barbican

Mark Thomas, 28th September

Oramo and the BBCSO were dynamic in the UK première of Brett Dean's thought-provoking suite and provided a solid account of Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben.

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