Past Event
Towards the Horizon
London Philharmonic Orchestra 2016/17
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Walton Violin Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No. 6
Sibelius Symphony No. 7
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Tasmin Little violin
‘Other composers serve colourful cocktails’, said Jean Sibelius. ‘I serve pure cold water’.
Not that there’s anything cold about the haunting Swan of Tuonela – or, for that matter, Walton’s glittering Italian fantasy of a violin concerto, played on this occasion by Tasmin Little. But there’s no mistaking the purity and freshness of the Finnish landscape as evoked in Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony – it’s some of the most serenely beautiful music he ever wrote. Osmo Vänskä has this music in his blood, and he ends the evening with the monumental Seventh Symphony: a life’s work, brought to completion in a single mighty gesture.
- Year
- 2016
- When
- Sat 29 Oct, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- £10, £15, £18, £23, £27.50 Premium seats £32.50
Under 18s £8
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