Göteborgs Konserthus FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES: SIBELIUS AND NIELSEN

Event has already taken place. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor, Anu Komsi, soprano

Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission Scene: Stora salen
330-490 SEK Student 165-245 SEK

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Experience two Nordic giants – Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen. In Sibelius’ symphonic fantasy Pohjola’s Daughter, the hero Väinämöinen’s meets with a beautiful girl, while Nielsen depicts the power of music in his fourth symphony. Soprano Anu Komsi echoes the voices of people being interrogated during the French revolution, in former DDR and in present-day USA, in Magnus Lindberg’s harrowing piece Accused.

Sibelius has charged his musical imagination with plenty of intensity and bright colours, well matched by the sounds of the Gothenburg Symphony.

Carl Nielsen wrote his fourth symphony in the shadow of the First World War. Emotional, extroverted music about life and what it means to be human. Carl Nielsen’s motto for the symphony was: ‘Music is life, and as such inextinguishable.’ He also called it The Inextinguishable.

There’s more Finland with Magnus Lindberg’s Accused for soprano and orchestra with text from the written record of three dramatic interrogations. Accused was co-commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Concert Introduction

Free introduction with musicians from the orchestra in the Stora Salen Hall one hour before the start of the concert.

Programme

Sibelius Pohjola's Daughter 14 min

Lindberg Accused (Göteborgs Symfonikers sambeställningsverk) 43 min

Intermission 25 min

Nielsen Symphony No 4 "The Inextinguishable" 37 min

Participants



Anu Komsi soprano

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