Sakari Oramo conducts Grime, Arnold and Vaughan Williams

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme pairing Malcolm Arnold’s Seventh Symphony with works by Helen Grime and Ralph Vaughan Williams, with Colin Currie as percussion soloist.

The programme places Arnold’s Seventh Symphony alongside Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto, written for soloist Colin Currie. The Barbican page describes Arnold’s symphony as a personal work and notes Oramo’s advocacy of it. No exact finish time is published.