Name: Closing Night: Sibelius' Fifth Symphony
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Stefan Dohr

Horn

Closing Night: Sibelius' Fifth Symphony

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Concert

Symphony No.1 in C Major, op.21

Concerto for Horn and Orchestra

Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

Zur Namensfeier

Sharan Allad

Approved

Imagine...majestic swans take flight and Finland’s greatest composer unleashes a spine-tingling melody that fills your heart with hope.
“God, what beauty!”. Once upon a time in Finland, Sibelius saw a flight of swans and felt his imagination take wing. That’s the story behind the unforgettable horn theme that crowns his Fifth Symphony: music as astonishing, and as inevitable, as nature itself. Those vaulting horns are a spine-tingling way to end the season. So what could be more natural than Ryan Wigglesworth inviting Stefan Dohr, a legend among living horn players, to perform another Scandinavian masterpiece: the playful, utterly original concerto that our Composer in Association (and master-storyteller) Hans Abrahamsen wrote especially for him. Ludwig van Beethoven ties it all together, with wit, splendour and irrepressible life-force. You’d expect no less.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble