Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen / Kristiina Poska
Van Mortelmans tot Sibelius
Dates
sun 13 oct 2024 - 15:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 46
duration
2h interval
ca. 15:45
Flanders Symphony Orchestra performs an emotional mix of Mortelmans, Brahms and Sibelius.
According to conductor Hans von Bülow, Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto was 'not a work for the violin, but against the violin'. Headed by chief conductor Kristiina Poska, with violinist Marc Bouchkov, Flanders Symphony Orchestra takes on the challenge of proving that the opposite is true. They combine the lyrical melodies, the moving violin-oboe duets and the exciting Hungarian final movement with the far-too-seldom-performed Exultation from the Elegy by the Late Romantic Flemish composer Lodewijk Mortelmans’. He wrote the work following the death of his wife and two children. You also hear the penetrating notes of Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. The Finnish composer created this work shortly after his unofficial Finnish national anthem Finlandia in 1902 in Italy. He himself described it as a ‘confession of the soul'. In this 'symphony of independence', the Finnish people heard a protest against Russian rule and adopted the work as a patriotic message from 'a shaman with his magic drum'. For Flanders Symphony Orchestra, it is above all a ‘warm bath of sounds’ and therefore Sibelius' most beautiful work.
Works
Concerto voor viool en orkest in D, opus 77
Symfonie nr 2 in D, opus 43
‘Hartverheffing’ uit ‘Elegie’
Credits
musical performance
musical direction
violin