CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Bruckner | BBC Symphony Orchestra/Grosvenor & Oramo | Royal Albert Hall, London | "the conviction forged by Oramo was both hair-raising and refreshing"

United Kingdom: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Grosvenor (Piano) & Sakari Oramo (Conductor). Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 24 August 2018.

BBC Proms 2018, Prom 56

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major, K467
Rachmaninov, Lilacs (Siren'), Op.21 no.5
Bruckner, Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, WAB 105

Sakari Oramo, © BBC | Mark Allan

Neither Sakari Oramo nor his BBC Symphony Orchestra are household names when it comes to Bruckner. And even if conducting Sibelius, as Oramo has done superbly with the BBCSO last season, may be a proxy to the quality of Bruckner conducting given the penchant for the elemental and mysterious both composers share, the task was not made easy by Oramo’s choice to conduct the B flat major Fifth Symphony, perhaps the most Brucknerian of them all...

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[The article is published on the Bruckner Journal]

Young-Jin Hur

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