鶹 Symphony Orchestra
7 Nov 2025, Barbican, London
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鶹 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season Oramo conducts Adès, Coleridge-Taylor and Sibelius

鶹 Symphony Orchestra
Oramo conducts Adès, Coleridge-Taylor and Sibelius
19:30 Fri 7 Nov 2025 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.

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“Lemminkaïnen, reckless hero, in his veins the blood of ages…” In the Finnish legends of the Kalevala, Lemminkaïnen was a warrior like no other: loving, hunting and vanquishing death itself. Sibelius knew all those ancient tales, and he retells them in music as vivid as any film score – the climax to a whole evening of fantastic tales from Sakari Oramo and the 鶹 Symphony Orchestra.

Because the adventure doesn’t start there. First comes the dizzying imagination of Thomas Adès’s violin concerto: a true modern classic, played by a giant among living violinists. And to open, Oramo shares the glowing colours and heartfelt melodies of Edwardian composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.