BBC SSO: The Lark Ascending

BBC SSO: The Lark Ascending

WAGNER                             Overture, ‘The Mastersingers of Nuremberg’ (c.20 mins)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    The Lark Ascending (c.15 mins)
SIBELIUS                            Symphony No.1 (c.40 minutes)
Rosanne Philippens     violin
Mark Wigglesworth      conductor

If full-blown emotion’s your thing, then look no further. Sibelius’s First is unquestionably the composer’s most Romantic symphony and often recalls Tchaikovsky at full tilt. And the concert opens with an outpouring of warmth, melody and passion in the Overture from Wagner’s opera, ‘The Mastersingers of Nuremberg’. At the eye of the storm, however, all is calm. A lark, free from human angst, sings and soars above a pastoral landscape and time stands still. Every performance of Vaughan Williams’s most popular work is a special occasion and here the sensational Rosanne Philippens gives voice to the bird.

*£6 tickets are available for Students, Under 26s and Unemployed (Price Band C & D).