Newbury Spring Festival

Winner of the Finnish critics’ prize 2021 for the Best Newcomer in the Arts, Emilia Hoving has emerged as one of most exciting young Finnish conductors of today, and for this concert with BBC National Orchestra of Wales she will conduct two works by her fellow countryman Sibelius. The final concert of this year’s Spring Festival opens, appropriately, with his tone poem Spring Song for Orchestra, and closes with one of his most popular and romanti...