Grande Finale: Sakari Oramo signs off with a Sibelius Showcase
After 13 magnificent years as chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo signs off with a four-concert Grande Finale Festival 19–29 May, focussing on the music of his Finnish compatriot, Jean Sibelius.
Oramo conducts all of Sibelius’s symphonies in order, from the sweeping Romanticism of the First to the atmospheric one-movement Seventh (actually premiered in 1