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Pekka Kuusisto © Felix Broede

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Kuusisto / Saraste

Tuesday 25 November 2025
19:30
Großer Saal

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Performers

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Pekka Kuusisto, Violine

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Dirigent

Programme

Outi Tarkiainen

Songs of the Ice (2019)

Igor Strawinski

Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-Dur (1931)

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Jean Sibelius

Symphonie Nr. 1 e-moll op. 39 (1899)

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Symphonic winter tales

»At its best, music is like a force of nature that floods and fulfils a person and can change entire destinies«, says Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen. Her work »Song of the Ice« makes the breathing ice of the Arctic resound, clinking, rumbling, squeaking and moaning - the perfect opening to an all-Finnish evening.

Traditional orchestra from the north

The oldest professional symphony orchestra in the Scandinavian countries, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, will perform Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 1 under the direction of its chief conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. It also gave the world premiere of this work in 1899.

Dialogue with Nordic nature and Finnish performers

The composer originally gave the movements programmatic titles such as »Musical dialogue, the wind blows cold«, »The northern fir tree« or »Winter fairy tale«. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto is the soloist in Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, composed in 1931.

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