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Performances of Jean Sibelius at BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Fri 7 Nov 2025
- 19:30
  Oramo conducts Adès, Coleridge-Taylor and Sibelius
  Barbican, London
  Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.
  Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Legends – a stirring counterpart to the brilliance of Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff.
  Programme
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Symphonic Variations on an African Air
  Thomas Adès
  Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'
  interval
  Jean Sibelius
  Lemminkäinen Suite, Op 22
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Christian Tetzlaff
  violin
  violin
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Thomas Adès
  Jean Sibelius
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season
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Tue 2 Sep 2025
- 19:30
  Adès Conducts the BBC SO
  Royal Albert Hall
  Composer and conductor Thomas Adès s the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela
  Composer and conductor Thomas Adès s the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela
  Programme
  Jean Sibelius
  The Swan of Tuonela(10 mins)
  Gabriella Smith
  Breathing Forests(28 mins)UK premiere
  interval
  Thomas Adès
  Five Spells from The Tempest(22 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  The Tempest – Suite No. 1(19 mins)
  Performers
  James McVinnie
  organ
  organ
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Thomas Adès
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Jean Sibelius
  Gabriella Smith
  Thomas Adès
  Part of
  Proms 2025
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  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)
Fri 18 Jul 2025
- 18:45
  First Night of the Proms 2025
  Royal Albert Hall
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  Programme
  Arthur Bliss
  Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
  interval
  Errollyn Wallen
  The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Sancta civitas(30 mins)
  Performers
  Lisa Batiashvili
  violin
  violin
  Caspar Singh
  tenor
  tenor
  Gerald Finley
  bass-baritone
  bass-baritone
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  London Youth Choirs
  ( from)
  ( from)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Arthur Bliss
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jean Sibelius
  Errollyn Wallen
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms on TV
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  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
Sun 22 Jun 2025
- 17:00
  BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival
  Snape Maltings Concert Hall
  Sakari Oramo directs scintillating forces in a divine setting by Britten of W.H. Auden’s poetry; its war-torn angst is dissolved in the triumphant resolution of Sibelius’ grand Fifth Symphony.
  Sakari Oramo directs scintillating forces in a divine setting by Britten of W.H. Auden’s poetry; its war-torn angst is dissolved in the triumphant resolution of Sibelius’ grand Fifth Symphony.
  Programme
  Helen Grime
  Night Songs(5 mins)
  Benjamin Britten
  Our Hunting Fathers, Op 8(27 mins)
  Brian Elias
  Horn Concerto(20 mins)Britten Pears Arts commission/world premiere
  Jean Sibelius
  Symphony No. 5 in E flat major(30 mins)
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Allan Clayton
  tenor
  tenor
  Ben Goldscheider
  French horn
  French horn
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Helen Grime
  Benjamin Britten
  Brian Elias
  Jean Sibelius
  Part of
  Aldeburgh Festival 2025