Sibelius: Symphony No.5
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, performs a programme crowned by Sibelius’ awe-inspiring Symphony No.5.
Also featuring music by Glinka, Rachmaninov and Grieg, it continues the OAE’s daring quest at the borderline between Romanticism and modernism.
Sibelius is without doubt one of the Last Romantics. Along with his younger contemporary Rachmaninov, he kept faith with the common building blocks of music in the latter half of the 19th century and well into the 20th.
But both had a non-conformist streak and began to find ways to move away from the prevailing styles of their time.
Tonight’s concert puts four ‘romantic’ pieces under the microscope of the OAE’s historically informed performance practice to look at how their composers probing for a native identity led to a quiet radicalism.
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Repertoire
Glinka: Overture, Ruslan and Lyudmila
Rachmaninov: The Rock
Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No.1
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E flat
Need to know
Level 5 Function Room, Green Side, Royal Festival Hall at 6pm: pre-concert talk. Admission free.
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