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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Jean Sibelius – En Saga, Op.9
~ Interval ~
Jean Sibelius – Kullervo
Performers
Sakari Oramo – Conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano – soprano
Waltteri Torikka – baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Polytech Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
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Programme Note
Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo pairs two of Sibelius’s most engagingly descriptive works as we continue our 150th-anniversary celebrations of the composer. The folk hero Kullervo was the inspiration behind a powerful national statement for a country struggling to overthrow Russian rule. This massive musical hybrid - part cantata, part symphony, part suite - is a vivid work, richly melodic but looking ahead to modernism in some striking musical gestures. En saga is a fairy tale without a plot, whose contrasting movements suggest many possible stories, but never commit to just one.