Closing Night: Sibelius' Fifth Symphony
19:30
Thu 22 May 2025
Glasgow City Halls
Programme
- Symphony No. 1 in C major(28 mins)
- Concerto for Horn and Orchestra(21 mins)
- Overture 'Namensfeier', Op 115(7 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 5 in E flat major(33 mins)
Performers
- Stefan Dohrhorn
- Ryan Wigglesworthconductor
Imagine...majestic swans take flight and Finland’s greatest composer unleashes a spine-tingling melody that fills your heart with hope.
“God, what beauty!”. Once upon a time in Finland, Sibelius saw a flight of swans and felt his imagination take wing. That’s the story behind the unforgettable horn theme that crowns his Fifth Symphony: music as astonishing, and as inevitable, as nature itself. Those vaulting horns are a spine-tingling way to end the season. So what could be more natural than Ryan Wigglesworth inviting Stefan Dohr, a legend among living horn players, to perform another Scandinavian masterpiece: the playful, utterly original concerto that our Composer in Association (and master-storyteller) Hans Abrahamsen wrote especially for him. Ludwig van Beethoven ties it all together, with wit, splendour and irrepressible life-force. You’d expect no less.