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LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo brought the 120th season of the United Kingdom's BBC Proms festival of classical music to a close in London on Saturday with a plea for children ...

The world premiere of Brian Elias’s Horn Concerto shimmered and an early Britten song cycle showed extraordinary ...

Sakari Oramo’s Firm Hand. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

As always the home teams of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and BBC Singers were on the platform, led by the Finn who’s now an old hand at English Last Night jokiness, Sakari Oramo.

First, someone who knows the music: Sakari Oramo, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, opened this summer's Proms Festival, London's biggest classical music event, with The Planets. "The ...

Sakari Oramo may be one of that astonishing group of Finnish conductors that now dominates the world. Yet, for him, taking on the BBC Symphony Orchestra has a satisfying sense of homecoming.

When Classic FM meets Sakari Oramo, conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, on the day he appeared at the Proms, your favourite classical station turns out to be the nervous party.

Elgar said this piece 'was the best of me' - at the Barbican on Friday night, conductor Sakari Oramo honoured that. The i. Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at the Barbican was a performance for the ages.

Sakari Oramo is another guest conductor originally brought in as a substitute for Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription concerts imperiled by accidents or illnesses suffered by Riccardo Muti.

Sakari Oramo’s excellent version, a successor to his equally wonderful Langgaard recording with the Vienna Philharmonic, was made live in Berlin earlier this year, and it clocks in at almost 15 ...