Name: Nordic Noir
Start: 2024-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

Admin

BBC Philharmonic

Orchestra

Conductor

John Storgårds

Nordic Noir

Manchester

United Kingdom

The Bridgewater Hall

Public

Verdigris

En Saga Op. 9

Symphony No.5 in B-flat major ("Fantastic")

Sharan Allad

Approved

A slow musical procession leads us through the gate into one of Bruckner’s ‘cathedrals of sound’, his Fifth Symphony. This music is as spacious and reverential as a place of worship. Fear not, there are no hard pews to sit on here as Bruckner’s sound world is warm and enveloping. Sibelius also invites us into his world of Nordic impressionism with En Saga, based on Northern legends and myths. This symphonic poem evokes the rugged beauty and atmosphere of Finland with its sweeping vistas. Lotta Wennäkoski honours this in her own work Verdigris. Composers, she suggests, write new layers on music history, hence she immerses in Sibelius’s music in amidst her own, creating a patina, the blue-green verdigris of the title.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble