Event listing: The Year 1911: Sibelius and Nielsen | Symphony Hall | Thu 1 Dec 2011 at 19:30

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Symphony HallBroad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)	Symphony no. 4 in A minor, Op.63
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)	Orchestral Songs
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)	Symphony no. 3, "Espansiva", Op.27

Performers

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano	Conductor
Inger Dam-Jensen	Soprano
Jeremy Huw Williams	Baritone

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See Symphony no. 4 in A minor, Op.63 in

Winterthur, Switzerland Tokyo, Japan Lahti, Finland

1911: A very good year for the symphony

Arthur Keegan-Bole, 1st December

‘Intimate symphonic playing’: an oxymoron perhaps, but in the fantastic acoustic of Symphony Hall and with the polished playing of the CBSO, somehow these symphonies, even with the tooting trumpets, blaring bassoons and sonorous strings (not to mention the tonking timpani), had the feel of chamber music.

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