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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Jean Sibelius – Finlandia, Op.26
Jean Sibelius – Symphony no.1 in E minor, Op.39
~ Interval ~
Jean Sibelius – Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.43
Performers
Thomas Dausgaard – Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Celebrations for Sibelius’s 150th anniversary continue with a complete symphony cycle, launched by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor Designate, Thomas Dausgaard. The First Symphony is prefaced by the nationalistic tone-poem Finlandia, its singing central melody composed with an ear to mass appeal as well as to political protest. The First Symphony is no apprentice work; although drawing on the legacy of Tchaikovsky and Brahms, Sibelius created something distinctively and evocatively Nordic. Still more sophisticated is the Second, often heard as a musical shout of grief and rage at Russian oppression.