BBC Concert Orchestra: Brahms
Orbiting spheres and northern stars: an evening of sonic marvels from conductor Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Every symphony creates a world. ‘Free but happy’ was Brahms’ motto, and he encodes it into the very notes of his third and most colourful symphony – a poetic, storm-swept journey that ends in a golden sunset.
Missy Mazzoli, meanwhile, gazes into the cosmos, and sees stars and planets spiralling in her Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).
It’s amazing what you can do with a mouth organ, and believe us – you’ve never heard an orchestra sound quite like this! But anything’s possible when the BBC Concert Orchestra performs with its chief conductor Anna-Maria Helsing.
Tonight these musical planets orbit around a dazzling new star, with a brand new cello concerto specially created for the glorious sound of cellist Senja Rummukainen by Tebogo Monnakgotla – a composer who grabs sounds and colours from the word around us, and charges them with a fresh kind of wonder.
Performers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing conductor
Senja Rummukainen cello
Repertoire
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Tebogo Monnakgotla: Cello Concerto (UK premiere)
Interval
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Brahms: Symphony No.3
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