deFilharmonie olv. Jaakko Kuusisto

Grieg was barely twenty-five when he put Norwegian music on the map with his Piano Concerto. His bracing combination of fragile melodies and tempestuous orchestral explosions still keeps this concerto amongst the resounding top rank of the repertoire. Just like Sibelius' Fifth Symphony, the work in which this Finn opened all the registers and treated the audience to a course in musical heroism