Göteborgs Konserthus Finnish by Ylönen and Rouvali

Event has already taken place. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor, Marko Ylönen cello

Concert length: 1 h 30 min no intermission Scene: Stora salen
365-525 SEK Student 183-262 SEK

Event has already taken place

Get your ticket for a Gothenburg premiere: Sibelius’ Dance Intermezzo will be performed in our city’s Concert Hall for the very first time!

An elegant little jewel originally composed for a dance choreography entitled A Fig Tree: Dreams of a Palm Tree at a 1904 charity event in Helsinki.

Sibelius published the work together with ‘The Dryad’ from 1910, a five-minute “symphonic poem” depicting three wood nymphs through shifting timbres and temperaments that has been called one of Sibelius’ most unique orchestral works.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s friend and colleague Marko Ylönen then treats us to more contemporary Finnish music with traces of Bartók and Shostakovich when he plays Jonas Kokkonen’s cello concerto from 1969 – a symphonically arranged concerto that lets the cello break free and even lead the way at times. Ylönen performs two lovely yet challenging solos in this atmospheric concerto by orchestral genius Kokkonen, one of Finland’s leading symphonists besides Sibelius.

“Anyone with ears can spot the American influence,” Antonin Dvorák said about his ninth symphony, From The New World, which he composed during his time as Director of the National Conservatory in New York (1892-1895). Attentive listeners may detect echoes of spirituals as well as the kind of country tunes and revival songs traditionally sung by farmers and European settlers in the frontier lands. The symphony is the work of an experienced composer: not a single note is superfluous, the work’s structure is clear as glass, its proportions perfect, as Dvorák parades one captivating theme after another in front of us. Sheer musical extasy!

No introduction to the concert

In the autumn of 2021, we will not give any introductions to the concerts due to the pandemic. Comments on the current programme for this particular concert can be found in connection with the names of the works under the heading Programme on this page (in swedish). You will get even more angles and keys to classical music in the concert magazine Podiet (in swedish) and the lecture series Classical Curiosities at GSOplay (in english).

The previously announced première of Daníel Bjarnason’s percussion concerto with Martin Grubinger has been moved to 8-9 December.

Programme

Sibelius Dryaden 6 min

Sibelius Tanz-Intermezzo 3 min

Kokkonen Cello Concerto 24 min

Dvorák Symphony No 9 "From the New World" 42 min

Participants



Marko Ylönen cello

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