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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.
Sakari Oramo
Verneri Pohjola, trumpet
Igor Yuzefovich, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Gustav Mahler 'Adagio' from Symphony No. 10
Ralph Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
Kaija Saariaho Hush
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
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.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London, EC2Y 8DS England, United Kingdom
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