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BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 40

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BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 40: Part 1: Prom 40 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

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Prom 40 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 40 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius: Finlandia; Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius: Finlandia and Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard, live at the BBC Proms, in an all-Sibelius programme.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch 

Sibelius: Finlandia
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op 39

8.20 pm Interval

8.40 pm 
Symphony No. 2 in D major 

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Celebrations for Sibelius's 150th anniversary continue with a complete symphony cycle, launched by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor Designate, Thomas Dausgaard. The First Symphony is prefaced by the nationalistic tone-poem Finlandia, its singing central melody composed with an ear to mass appeal as well as to political protest. The First Symphony is no apprentice work; although drawing on the legacy of Tchaikovsky and Brahms, Sibelius created something distinctively and evocatively Nordic. Still more sophisticated is the Second, often heard as a musical shout of grief and rage at Russian oppression.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 27th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 40

Prom 40

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in an all-Sibelius Prom

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