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Sakari Oramo

December 2023

  • Impeccable … the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – the freshness Oramo brought to Sibelius was a joyous revelation

    Sakari Oramo presented the Finnish composer’s enigmatic Sixth symphony and the majestic Seventh as a single span in a concert that also included the UK premiere of Tebogo Monnakgotla’s Globe Skimmer Surfing the Somali Jet with violinist Johan Dalene

November 2023

  • Drive and conviction … conductor Sakari Oramo.

    Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 & 4 album review – Oramo is a passionate advocate

    Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO revel in the expert orchestrations of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music in this first instalment of recordings of the Polish composer’s orchestral works

October 2023

  • Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – a fresh take on Mahler’s Fifth

    Sakari Oramo proved once again what a special Mahlerian he is with this outstanding performance, in a programme that also featured an early Ligeti work and the UK premiere of an underwhelming orchestral piece by Dora Pejačević

August 2023

  • Joyous and witty … Manchester Collective perform at Prom 46.

    Proms 45 & 46: BBCSO/Oramo; Manchester Collective review – Mahler with martial zeal and shimmering electronic works

    Mahler’s Third Symphony is a huge undertaking, impressively played by the BBCSO, followed by a rare late-night excursion into contemporary works

November 2020

  • The BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo perform: Anna Clyne Within her Arms Joseph Haydn Symphony No 49, La Passione Magnus Lindberg Accused (world premiere of chamber version) with soprano And Komsi without an audience in the Barbican Hall on Friday 6 Nov. 2020 Photo by Mark Allan

    BBCSO/Oramo review – luminous and mesmerising

    A programme that featured the world premiere of a chamber version of Magnus Lindberg’s Accused alongside music by Anna Clyne and Haydn saw the BBCSO and its chief conductor at their best.

August 2020

  • Beautifully balanced performance … Sakari Oramo at the first night of the Proms.

    First night of the Proms review – Oramo conjures hope from Beethoven

    Despite their reduced numbers, the BBC Symphony Orchestra brought intensity and lyricism to the judicious first-night choice of the Eroica

October 2019

  • Unfailingly singable … Rosie Aldridge and Benedict Nelson with the BBCSO.

    Miss Julie review – Sakari Oramo's revival brims with colour and verve

    William Alwyn’s rich writing shines through in this vividly dramatic BBC Symphony concert staging of his final opera

September 2019

  • Jamie Barton makes a rainbow appear at the Last Night of the Proms.

    'I thought I'd hate it': Bridget Christie on loving the Last Night of the Proms

    Laura Mvula was captivating, and I cried when opera star Jamie Barton took to the stage with a rainbow flag. Shame the conductor spent the entire night with his back to us

January 2019

  • Sakari Oramo and the composer Richard Causton with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, for which Causton’s Ik Zeg: NU was commissioned.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – Causton's brilliant time-play and sweetness from Isserlis

    Richard Causton’s fascinating new work ignited temporal tension amid Sakari Oramo’s glowing orchestral colours, while Steven Isserlis’s cello brought gut-stringed feeling

November 2017

  • Lisa Batiashvili performs Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor with the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, at the 2017 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

    BBCSO/Oramo – Hillborg premiere showcases Batiashvili's fearless playing

    Lisa Batiashvili gave a tonally rich, technically immaculate performance in the first UK outing for Hillborg’s colourful but contrived second violin concerto

September 2017

  • Alan Johnson attends the BBC Proms 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Into the classical music bear-pit: Alan Johnson goes to the Proms

    Growing up in North Kensington Alan Johnson used to play around the Albert Hall but never went inside. 60 years later we sent the former home secretary along to experience the Proms for the first time. What did he make of it?

August 2017

  • Renée Fleming sings Strauss, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, during Prom 61 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

    RSPO/Oramo/Chineke!/Edusei review – rounded, exquisite, played to perfection

    A stellar performance by Renée Fleming and the first appearance by the BAME Chineke! Orchestra made Proms 61 and 62 a privilege to attend

May 2017

  • Superb … soprano Alison Bell, with conductor Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – Varèse's musical monoliths wreathed in majesty

    The composer’s large-scale works were accompanied by pioneering and rarely heard pieces in one of the BBC’s Total Immersion days

April 2017

  • Andrew Clements

    Proms 2017: Pickard hasn't messed with an established formula

    Andrew Clements
    This year’s BBC proms might be the first David Pickard can truly call his own, but the director has not risked changing a successful formula – and there’s plenty to savour in a season that fits in Reformation, revolution, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Hull

March 2017

  • Sakari Oramo.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – Glanert premiere vividly realised

    Works by Nielsen and Sibelius preceded Detlev Glanert’s beguiling Megaris, with its bursts of cartoonish fun and stretches of languor

October 2016

  • Janie Dee and Simon Paisley Day in the joint BBSCO/Globe staging of Schmitt’s score to Gide’s version of Antony and Cleopatra.

    Shakespeare 400
    Antony and Cleopatra review - BBCSO bring Schmitt's incidental music back to life

    A fascinating stage collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe revived the work of a tarnished French composer, whose dramatic score deserves comparison with Debussy and Ravel

May 2016

  • Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

    BBCSO/Ibragimova/Oramo review – orchestral sonorities meet choral intensity

    Joseph Phibbs morphs Bach into a witty tango under Oramo’s baton, with Vaughan Williams and Béla Bartók proving the Chorus’s power

February 2016

  • Composer Anders Hillborg soprano Renée Fleming at the Barbican on Friday.

    BBCSO/Oramo/Fleming review – precision and exotic colour

    Vocal works by Holloway and Hillborg were beautifully performed by US soprano Renée Fleming and the BBCSO under Sakari Oramo

January 2016

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting

    Hillborg: Sirens; Cold Heat; Beast Sampler CD review – there's no doubt orchestras enjoy playing his music

  • ‘Imposing performance’ … Sakari Oramo.

    BBCSO/Oramo review – sweeping, shattering, and totally at home

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