BBC SO Total Immersion: Sibelius the Storyteller
- 1pm
Tickets
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £15
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Poetry and music merge in readings and songs: an atmospheric starting point for the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s day of Total Immersion in the world of Sibelius the Storyteller.
‘I believe that music alone – that is to say, absolute music – cannot by itself satisfy’ wrote Jean Sibelius and his music is engaged in a continual dialogue with other artforms: poetry, drama and the folklore of northern Europe. At the start of the BBC SO’s Total Immersion day, musicians from Guildhall School perform Sibelius’s songs and melodramas – still under-appreciated in the English-speaking world.
We’ll hear songs and poems spanning three decades of creativity: tales of nature, of supernatural encounters and of love, sung in both Finnish and Swedish. And there’s a rare opportunity to hear two of Sibelius’s melodramas – spoken-word poetry set to a powerfully evocative score, opening a whole imaginative world in a few minutes of words and music.
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH