Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) | Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49 | |
| Salonen, Esa-Pekka (b. 1958) | Violin Concerto | |
| Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47 |
Performers
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Sakari Oramo | Conductor |
| Leila Josefowicz | Violin |
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2009 award-winning Violin Concerto ‘Out of Nowhere’ is a portrait of the phenomenal soloist Leila Josefowicz, who will give this UK premiere. Praised at its LA Philharmonic premiere for its ‘pure, euphoric poetry’, it’s a work which lends itself to Josefowicz’s visceral intensity. In its pulsing central movements, we may find echoes of Sibelius’s driving repetitions in his dark re-telling of Pojhola’s Daughter, in which the daughter of the north, astride a rainbow, mocks the love-lorn Väinämöinen. This concert ends with one of Shostakovich’s most popular symphonies, No. 5: its heroic classicism may have effected the composer’s political rehabilitation, but its essential defiance comes blazing through. Tickets £10 - 32.
