Royal Festival Hall
Sat 5 October 2019
7:30pm
The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Sheku Kanneh-Mason play works that evoke the magic of nature.
Jean Sibelius found a vast stillness in the endless forests of his
native Finland, while an ocean voyage prompted visions of classical myth
and elemental power.
Mälkki begins this concert with Sibelius’s warmest tone-poem and ends
it with his gentlest symphony: in between come two very different
visions of nature from two British masters.
Fresh sea air blows through every bar of Britten’s youthful Frank Bridge Variations.
And Edward Elgar retreated to rural Sussex to write his Cello
Concerto, a work whose haunted poetry – as Sheku Kanneh-Mason (2016 BBC
Young Musician of the Year) well demonstrates – takes on a fresh meaning
for each generation.
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