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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra

Live from the Barbican, Dalia Stasevska conducts the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ SO in Sibelius, Julian Anderson, and violinist Leila Josefowicz joins for Helen Grime’s mercurial Violin Concerto.

Helen Grime set out to pitch wild abandon against tender sensitivity when writing her Violin Concerto and few violinists deliver those qualities like Leila Josefowicz, who returns to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra for the UK premiere of Grime’s virtuosic, dreamlike concerto in one movement.
Before it, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ SO Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts Julian Anderson’s glittering nightscape Incantesimi and ends with music from her own country: the searing combination of fire and ice that is Sibelius’s First Symphony.

Live from the Barbican Hall London

Julian Anderson: Incantesimi
Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Helen Grime: Violin Concerto (UK premiere)

8.10pm
Interval: Music chosen by Helen Grime:
Judith Weir: Airs from another Planet (for Wind Quintet and piano)
Oliver Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch

8.30pm
Part 2
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor

Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Release date:

2 hours, 28 minutes