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Oramo conducts Rautavaara, Prokofiev & Sibelius - with Olli Mustonen

Oramo conducts Rautavaara, Prokofiev & Sibelius - with Olli Mustonen

Concert

CBSO

Production Date: 27/05/2000
83 Min

With its opening sunrise and vaulting “Swan Hymn”, Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony is one of the defining masterpieces of Finnish music, and it’s been at the centre of Sakari Oramo’s repertoire since the start of his conducting career. This concert finds him on tour in 2000 as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – an ensemble with a long Sibelius tradition of its own – and striking sparks off his young compatriot Olli Mustonen in Prokofiev’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 3. Oramo opens with the haunting Lintukoto by the late Einojuhani Rautavaara: one of the undisputed masters of Finnish music in the generation since Sibelius.

Soloist
Olli Mustonen (Piano)
Ensemble
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Sakari Oramo