Tue 28 Jul 2026

• 19:00

  Sibelius’s Second

  Royal Albert Hall

  Guy Johnston is the soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Cello Symphony. He joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, who also perform Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite

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  Guy Johnston is the soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Cello Symphony. He joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, who also perform Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite

  Programme

  • • • Mark‐Anthony Turnage
      • Festen Suite(21 mins)BBC co-commission: UK premiere
    • • Benjamin Britten
      • Cello Symphony(34 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Jean Sibelius
      • Symphony No. 2 in D major(40 mins)

  Performers

  • Guy Johnston

    cello
    cello
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Mark‐Anthony Turnage
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Jean Sibelius

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