Name: Crossings, Creations, and Immersions
Start: 2022-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Soprano

Anu Komsi

Singer

Voice

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Crossings, Creations, and Immersions

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Crossings, Creations, and Immersions: Night Ride and Sunrise, Op.55 Sibelius (+4 More)

Public

Private

Night Ride and Sunrise, op. 55

Luonnotar

Tapiola

6 Songs, Op.72

5 Songs, Op.37

Approved

Sibelius’s Tapiola sings of the endless northern forests: primal, elemental, “brooding savage dreams”. And after its premiere in 1926, the composer fell silent - as if he had no more stories to tell. At the end of a day of total immersion in the world of Sibelius the storyteller, Sakari Oramo and soprano Anu Komsi take us on a final journey into the forests of the far north.

They begin, though, in a blaze of light: the life-affirming dawn that concludes Night Ride and Sunrise. Komsi is the soloist in three more musical legends, including the astonishing Luonnotar – a Finnish creation-myth, retold in music of primal grandeur. We are also treated to readings by Icelandic-American actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. And then, at the end, comes Tapiola – one of music’s timeless mysteries, as urgent now as the day it was conceived.

English

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