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BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 43

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BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 43: Part 1: Prom 43 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

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Part 1 Part 1: Prom 43 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

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Prom 43 (part 1): Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

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Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphony No 5 in E flat.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphony No 5 in E flat.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra with Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, live at the BBC Proms. Sibelius's final Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7.

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

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

8.05 pm Interval

8.25 pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

Who better to bring this year's cycle of Sibelius symphonies to a close than fellow countryman Osmo Vänskä, with one exceptional cycle already completed on disc and another currently under way. 'These symphonies of mine are more confessions of faith than are my other works,' wrote Sibelius, but the later symphonies were hard-won confessions in which the composer's creativity struggled with self-doubt and hostile critics. The results, however, are exceptional, from the soaring horn-led 'swan hymn' of the Fifth to the innocent beauty of the Sixth and the single-movement Seventh, with its total symphonic unity and an ending that has been called 'the grandest celebration of C major there ever was'.

[This Prom will be repeated on Monday 31st August at 2pm].

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 43

Prom 43

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.

Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's final symphonies: Nos 5, 6 and 7

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