Name: Sibelius Symphony No.2
Start: 2019-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Thomas Dausgaard

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Yulianna Avdeeva

Piano

Sibelius Symphony No.2

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Jnanakumar P

Approved

The darkness of a northern night might be long and wild but when the sun finally rises, it really rises. The revels at Peter Maxwell Davies’s Orkney wedding go on till daybreak – and you’ll hear every raucous, exuberant sound. But it’s when dawn arrives that the full splendour of his vision really becomes clear, in a blaze of bagpipes. Sibelius would have understood: after all, Finns know a thing or two about the cycles of nature, and he once compared his Second Symphony to a great river – gathering strength from many streams before flowing majestically to the sea. In other words, it’s crowned with one of the most stirring tunes he ever wrote. It’s a magnificent complement to Tchaikovsky’s battle-royale of a First Piano Concerto – a work as popular as it is dramatic, and a thrilling showcase for the prizewinning Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva.

Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room (free to ticket-holders, subject to seating availability): Dr Leah Broad, Lecturer in Music at Christ Church, Oxford, introduces Sibelius’s Second Symphony.

The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast in 'Radio 3 in Concert' on 28 October 2019 at 7.30pm - the presenter is Andrew McGregor. It will then be available to stream or download for 30 days via 'BBC Sounds', where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble