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Oramo conducts Mahler 10 and The Lark Ascending

An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush.

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
Barbican Hall
Fri 24 Jan7.30 pm
2 hours 30 minutes
Conductor(s):

Sakari Oramo

Performer(s):

Verneri Pohjola, trumpet

Igor Yuzefovich, violin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Chorus

Programme

Gustav Mahler 'Adagio' from Symphony No. 10

Ralph Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region

Kaija Saariaho Hush

Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

About this event

Hush… when the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died in 2023, she left behind her a trumpet concerto unlike any other, crafted to showcase the remarkable, genre-crossing artistry of trumpeter Verneri Pohjola. He gives its UK premiere tonight. a final, profoundly moving testament from one of our century’s greatest creative spirits, as she took her own 'journey to silence'.

A jewel as rare as this demands a very special setting, and Sakari Oramo – a lifelong admirer of Saariaho’s music – has placed Hush at the centre of a concert that begins with Gustav Mahler gazing into the abyss, and ends with Vaughan Williams’s vision of beauty soaring clear and free. BBC SO leader Igor Yuzefovich plays The Lark Ascending, and the BBC Symphony Chorus sings Towards the Unknown Region: another timeless meditation on an eternal question. 

Venue details

Barbican Hall

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London, EC2Y 8DS England, United Kingdom

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