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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Jean Sibelius – En Saga, Op.9
~ Interval ~
Jean Sibelius – Kullervo
Performers
Sakari Oramo – Conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano – soprano
Waltteri Torikka – baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Polytech Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo pairs two of Sibelius’s most engagingly descriptive works as we continue our 150th-anniversary celebrations of the composer. The folk hero Kullervo was the inspiration behind a powerful national statement for a country struggling to overthrow Russian rule. This massive musical hybrid - part cantata, part symphony, part suite - is a vivid work, richly melodic but looking ahead to modernism in some striking musical gestures. En saga is a fairy tale without a plot, whose contrasting movements suggest many possible stories, but never commit to just one.