Celebrating Nielsen: The Four Temperaments
Symphony Hall
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For Nielsen, music was all about exploring what it means to be human. And this second concert in the CBSO and the Hallé’s joint Nielsen Symphony Cycle does exactly that. Nielsen’s extraordinary Second Symphony, “The Four Temperaments”, is a musical attempt to paint an entire personality in wonderfully colourful music; his deceptively tuneful Sixth is a musical self-portrait as haunting and unforgettable as anything by Mahler. To these masterpieces Oramo adds Nielsen’s picturesque tribute to the sun, and Prokofiev’s equally warm-hearted violin concerto played by an outstanding soloist.
5.45pm Pre-concert talk – Nielsen: The Four Temperaments
Find out more about tonight’s symphonies and overture by this great Dane.
Nielsen: Helios Overture 12’
Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 (Semplice) 31’
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 22’
Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments) 35’
Change of Conductor
Sakari Oramo, the CBSO’s Principal Guest Conductor, has unfortunately had to withdraw from this concert through ill health.
This concert will now be conducted by Okko Kamu.
Akiko Suwanai – violin
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50
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Symphony Hall
- 32 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Part of CBSO Season 2008-09
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