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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
9 Oct 2022, Barbican, London
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2022-23 Season Stories, Quests, and Secret Sagas

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Stories, Quests, and Secret Sagas
15:00 Sun 9 Oct 2022 Barbican, London
Sibelius the Storyteller: Sakari Oramo conducts four vivid musical mini-epics, accompanied by readings from the ancient stories that inspired them.
Sibelius the Storyteller: Sakari Oramo conducts four vivid musical mini-epics, accompanied by readings from the ancient stories that inspired them.

Programme

      • Scènes historiques I, op. 25: No. 1. All'Overtura
      • En saga
      • The Bard, Op 64
      • Pohjola's Daughter

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About This Event

On top of a rainbow beyond the northern edge of the world sits Pohjola’s daughter, her fingers weaving golden threads on a magic loom. For Sibelius, Finnish mythology opened new worlds of creative possibility, and in this afternoon’s concert Sakari Oramo conducts four of Sibelius’s most colourful orchestral works, alongside readings of stories from Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala.

But Sibelius was master of his own imagination, and the results are not always what you might expect. Heroic myths reveal their darker sides, poets weave quiet mysteries, and patriotic pageants suddenly break into irreverent laughter. Sakari Oramo understands this music like few living conductors, and from the epic struggles of En Saga to the quiet enigma of The Bard, it’ll acquire new dimensions when heard alongside the words that fired Sibelius’s imagination, read by Icelandic-American actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

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