Name: A Meditation on Life
Start: 2025-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Orchestra

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Instrumentalist

Verneri Pohjola

Trumpet

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

Igor Yuzefovich

Violin

A Meditation on Life

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Public

Concert

Symphony No.10

Trumpet Concerto "HUSH"

Toward the Unknown Region

The Lark Ascending

Joshua Dos

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

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Hornist

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Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

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Organist

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Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Countertenor

Baritone

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Continuo

Silent

Spoken

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.

English

A Meditation on Life by Mahler, Saariaho, Vaughan Williams, From (2025/2025), Conductor Sakari Oramo, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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