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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 20: Pekka Kuusisto
Performance Date3 August 2019
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPekka Kuusisto -violin,
Vilma Timonen - kantele,
Timo Alakotila - harmonium,
Taito Hoffrén,
Ilona Korhonen,
Minna-Liisa Tammela -vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsThomas Dausgaard
Set List'Violin Concerto in D minor 34’', Sibelius - Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1907
INTERVAL
'Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (original version, 1915) 36’', Sibelius - UK premiere
Performance NotesViolinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016.

Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony’s original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2019/)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£105, £6 gallery and arena standing
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/2y92YNT2ULW4w
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/59BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 20: Pekka Kuusisto3 August 2019
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11719BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season 75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1052Dausgaard; Thomas (1963-); Danish conductor
DS/UK/21291Kuusisto; Pekka (1976-); Finnish musician
DS/UK/23395Alakotila; Timo (15 July 1959-present); Finnish composer, arranger and musician
DS/UK/23398Tammela; Minna-Liisa (fl. 2010S-); Finnish musician
DS/UK/23397Korhonen; Ilona (fl 1998-); Finnish musician, singer, composer, teacher
DS/UK/23396Hoffren; Taito (1974-); Finnish singer, musician, composer
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