Tarmo Peltokoski and Hong Kong Philharmonic, absent Jing Wang, take thrilling sea journey

Tarmo Peltokoski and Hong Kong Philharmonic, absent Jing Wang, take thrilling sea journey


Closing the season with scale and grandeur on July 3, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra launched the audience onto the high seas with a programme anchored by Ralph Vaughan Williams’ rarely performed A Sea Symphony.

The sprawling work has not been aired by the orchestra since the 1980s and it is a cantata, song cycle and oratorio rolled into one, each of its four movements set to American poet Walt Whitman’s lines on exploration and humanity.




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