London Philharmonic Orchestra - Brighton Dome

Saturday 6 February 2010 | 7.30pm
Concert Hall, Brighton Dome

SIBELIUS Tapiola
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony 5

OSMO VANSKA conductor
SERGEY MALOV violin

Gazing from his window of his beloved home in the Finnish countryside, Jean Sibelius glimpsed a group of swans taking flight. The First World War was tearing Europe to pieces, and Sibelius was visited still by illness and depression. Into the bleak landscape of his forlorn existence the swans thrust a sudden light and optimism: Sibelius wrote glowingly of the swans before capturing them musically in the last movement of his Fifth Symphony with a beautiful, hopeful motif that soars inspiringly upwards from within the orchestra, free from its creator's earthly concerns.

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