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Richard Causton, Schumann and Brahms

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo

,Barbican Hall
Steven Isserlis close up with violin

Two great Romantic works – Schumann’s heart-on-sleeve Cello Concerto and Brahms’s Third Symphony – celebrate the friendship and musical kinship between the two composers.

British cellist Steven Isserlis returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season to perform Schumann’s pioneering cello concerto – the work that first gave this instrument Romantic voice. Where Schumann looks to the future, Brahms looks back to Beethoven in his taut, tightly constructed Third Symphony, once described as ‘the most nearly perfect’ of all the composer’s symphonies. An exciting world premiere of Richard Causton’s newly commissioned Ig zeg: NU (I say: NOW) opens the programme.

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Programme

  • Richard Causton   Ik zeg: NU (I Say: NOW) (world premiere; BBC commission)
  • Schumann   Cello Concerto
  • Brahms   Symphony No 3

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sakari Oramo   conductor
  • Steven Isserlis   cello

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Barbican Hall

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The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

Address
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Silk Street, London
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