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Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo

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Sakari Oramo conducting, with pink orange swirls around him

England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold. 

Malcolm Arnold never did anything by halves, and when he composed his Fifth Symphony he poured out his soul. Soaring melodies, gleaming colours and raw, heart-on-sleeve emotion: this is British music as you’ve never heard it before. It’s a gripping counterpart to Doreen Carwithen’s Concerto, and the radiance and rapture of Vaughan Williams’s gorgeous Serenade.

For BBC Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Sakari Oramo, British music is a passion – especially the masterpieces that the British themselves have overlooked. The Serenade to Music is a perennial favourite, but today the BBC Singers revive the composer’s ravishing original version. And pianist Alexandra Dariescu is just as committed to the music of Doreen Carwithen – like Arnold, a postwar composer whose music is richly melodic, atmospheric, and evocative.  

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This performance will finish at approximately 9.15pm, including a 20-minute interval

Promoted by BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams   Serenade to Music
  • Doreen Carwithen   Concerto for Piano and Strings
  • Malcolm Arnold   Symphony No 5

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Sakari Oramo   conductor
  • Alexandra Dariescu   piano
  • BBC Singers  

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