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Sakari Oramo

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Vilde Frang

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BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo & Vilde Frang: Northern Lights

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Barbican Concert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo & Vilde Frang: Northern Lights: Violin Concerto in D Stravinsky (+2 More)

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Violin Concerto in D major, K053

Symphony No. 1, op. 39

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The words of Kurt Vonnegut blasted American composer Andrew Norman out of his creative block: an explosive opening to a concert that celebrates Stravinsky at his most witty, and Sakari Oramo’s very personal angle on the woodland magic and Arctic gales of Sibelius’s youthful First Symphony.

It’s high-octane stuff; but Oramo has been exploring Sibelius for his whole life, and he knows that the First Symphony – with its raging storms and shimmering, aurora borealis colours - is about as Romantic as this great Finnish symphonist gets. The superb Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang makes a very welcome return as soloist in a concerto that Stravinsky (ever the joker) designed to be unplayable. Believe us: that won’t stop her…

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BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo & Vilde Frang: Northern Lights by Stravinsky, Sibelius, Norman, A., From (2024/2024), Conductor Sakari Oramo, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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