Prom 42: Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Time: 7.30pm - c9.50pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £6-£27.50 price code A or Prom for £5

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Tonight's Prom brings together this season's Shakespeare theme and the 50th anniversary of Sibelius's death. Osmo Vänskä, one of the Finnish composer's leading interpreters, conducts a rare performance of the complete incidental music for The Tempest, a work which, along with the last completed symphony, presents a late pinnacle of the composer’s career, before his early, 30-year retirement.

Sibelius

The Tempest – complete incidental music (sung in Finnish) (67 mins)

Interval

Sibelius

Songs with orchestra:
Höstkväll, Op. 38 No. 1 (5 mins) sol. Juntunen
Hertig Magnus Op. 57 No. 6 (3.30 mins) sol. Juntunen
Arioso, Op. 3 (4 mins) sol. Juntunen
Demanten på marssnön, Op. 36 No. 6 (3 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Den första kyssen, Op. 37 No. 1 (2 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte, Op. 37 No. 5 (3 mins) sol. Paasikivi
Autrefois (Scène pastorale), Op. 96b (5.40 mins) sol. Juntunen & Paasikivi

Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins)

Helena Juntunen soprano
Lilli Paasikivi mezzo-soprano
Juha Hostikka tenor
Petri Lehto tenor
Ville Rusanen baritone

Dominante
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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Like this Prom? try these:

11/08   PROM 38: SIBELIUS'S SYMPHONY NO.5

29/08  PROM 60: SIBELIUS'S SYMPHONY NO.2