Jeremy Hayes introduces substantial excerpts from Sibelius's last and greatest theatre score, which contains one of the most terrifying depictions of a storm in music. Also a short Shakespeare song which
Sibelius returned to nearly 50 years after he had composed it to orchestrate it shortly before his death, and his most elegiac symphonic poem. The Bard
London Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham
Incidental music: The Tempest (excerpts)
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo), Lahti Opera Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Come Away, Death (Incidental music: Twelfth Night)
Jorma Hynninen (baritone),
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jorma Panula
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm