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Adès Conducts the BBC SO

Name: Adès Conducts the BBC SO
Start: 2025-09-02T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Composer and conductor Thomas Adès has long been a fan of Sibelius: ‘He’s obsessed with nature – you’ve always got this sense that he is on the edge of some vast wilderness.’ Adès drew inspiration from the Finnish composer’s incidental music for The Tempest when writing his own opera on the Shakespeare play. He conducts suites from both these storm-laden, supernatural works, along with The Swan of Tuonela, in which Sibelius summoned up his skil...

Program

Jean Sibelius - The Tempest (Stormen)

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Gabriella Smith - Breathing Forests

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Thomas Adès - The Tempest

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Jean Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela

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Participants

James McVinnie

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