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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra - Strauss, Grieg, Sibelius, Stravinsky

From the Barbican, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. Strauss: Don Juan. Grieg: Piano Concerto (soloist: Javier Perianes). Sibelius: En Saga. Stravinsky: Firebird Suite.

Live from the Barbican

Presented by Ian Skelly

Sakari Oramo conducts the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra in music by Strauss, Sibelius & Stravinsky - his ballet score The Firebird. Javier Perianes joins for Grieg's great Piano Concerto.

Expect an explosion of colour and character with Strauss's vaulting portrait of the lothario Don Juan and the spangled exoticism of Stravinsky's fairy-tale ballet The Firebird. In between comes Sibelius's brooding, atmospheric tone-poem En Saga, which he said contained 'the whole of my youth'. He asked 'Can one think of anything other than Finland while listening to it?' The acclaimed young Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes, described as 'a poet at the keyboard', joins Sakari Oramo in Grieg's famous concerto.

Strauss: Don Juan
Grieg: Piano Concerto

8.15pm Interval: The dark and brooding keyboard music of Manuel Blasco de Nebra - heir to the genius of Scarlatti, and a native of Spain from where the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra recently returned on tour with performer Javier Perianes - we hear the pianist here with the composer's Pastorela No. 6 in E minor. Plus choral music by Sibelius and his work Rakastava [The lover] Op.14, and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers with Soprano Alison Smart and baritone Stephen Charlesworth.

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Sibelius: En Saga
Stravinsky: The Firebird - Suite (1945)

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Javier Perianes (piano).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Manuel Blasco de Nebra

    Pastorela no. 6 in E minor

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - suite

  • Sibelius

    En Saga

  • Jean Sibelius

    Rakastava [The lover] Op.14

    Singer: Stephen Charlesworth. Choir: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers. Singer: Alison Smart. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan Op. 20

  • Turina

    Escena andaluza

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Oct 2014 19:30

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