蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season Oramo conducts Mahler's Tenth and The Lark Ascending
Oramo conducts Mahler's Tenth and The Lark Ascending
19:30
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Barbican, London
An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho鈥檚 astonishing final masterpiece Hush.
An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho鈥檚 astonishing final masterpiece Hush.
Hush鈥hen 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鈥檚 greatest creative spirits, as she took her own 鈥渏ourney to silence鈥�.
A jewel as rare as this demands a very special setting, and Sakari Oramo 鈥� a lifelong admirer of Saariaho鈥檚 music 鈥� has placed Hush at the centre of a concert that begins with Gustav Mahler gazing into the abyss, and ends with Vaughan Williams鈥檚 vision of beauty soaring clear and free. 蜜芽传媒 SO leader Igor Yuzefovich plays The Lark Ascending, and the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Chorus sings Towards the Unknown Region: another timeless meditation on an eternal question.
