Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen / Adrien Perruchon

The Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts and flautist Marina Piccini perform a brand-new double concerto by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho. What makes the whole thing even more special is that Aho tailored his new composition to Lenaerts and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. It became a sensual exploration of a dreamy Arcadia. A work full of pastoral peace, with here and there a nod to his musical source of inspiration - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 

Whilst Aho allows himself to be influenced by Mozart’s talent for light and grace, conductor Adrien Perruchon opts for the dark colours from

Mozart’s penultimate symphony. Melancholy and turbulent, full of grieving sighs and thundering anguish. Tragic sensations of raging calamity that also sound out in the overture of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, but which time and time again are balanced with a positive note. A moving plea for the glass half full.