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Elgar and Dvorák

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo

,Barbican Hall
Nicola Benedetti close up landscape playing violin

Two great Romantic works, each with a very personal significance for their composer, are paired here in a concert of music that celebrates friendship and mourns loss.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo for Elgar’s Violin Concerto – a work in which bravura technique and dazzling display meet confessional intimacy, one the composer himself described as ‘too emotional’. The concerto is paired with Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, whose brooding opening movement and elegiac Adagio grew out of recent tragedy – the loss of the composer’s mother and the mental collapse of his friend and colleague Smetana.

Tagged with: Classical music BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19 BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19 Multibuy

Programme

  • Elgar   Concerto for Violin
  • Dvorák   Symphony No 7

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sakari Oramo   conductor
  • Nicola Benedetti   violin

Journey Through Music

Pre-concert event

Journey Through Music
6pm Fountain Room 

An interactive, family-friendly exploration of the music played in this evening’s concert, Journey Through Music is the perfect introduction to the world of classical music and orchestras for younger audiences. If you play an instrument, bring it along, as there will be a chance for you to join in. We hope that by helping your family get more out of the concerts, they can discover a world of creativity and inspiration in classical music and the spectacle of a live symphony orchestra.

Quote ‘Journey Through Music' when buying your tickets by phone or book online and quote ‘040679’ to get tickets for just £5 plus booking fee. At least one of your group must be aged 16 or under. Please note that spaces are limited.

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architecture detail of the barbican hall

Composer Focus – Episode 5: Jean Sibelius with Sakari Oramo

In the final episode, host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven throughout his music.

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