Munich Philharmonic: Kaipainen / Shostakovich / SibeliusJukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
This event is in the past.
Did Sisyphus have dreams? And if so, what was he dreaming of? Perhaps a cosy bed of soft moss to rest his weary body, reckons Jouni Kaipainen. Rocks presumably didn’t feature in his dreams. With his narrative compositional style, the Finnish composer, who passed away in 2015, never failed to awaken his audiences’ curiosity, captivating them with his musical imagination.
This event is in the past.
Did Sisyphus have dreams? And if so, what was he dreaming of? Perhaps a cosy bed of soft moss to rest his weary body, reckons Jouni Kaipainen. Rocks presumably didn’t feature in his dreams. With his narrative compositional style, the Finnish composer, who passed away in 2015, never failed to awaken his audiences’ curiosity, captivating them with his musical imagination.
Shostakovich also took a playful approach to his Piano Concerto No 1. With a wink, he quotes Beethoven, Haydn and even himself, stitching together a wide variety of styles and letting a single trumpet disrupt proceedings – a parody amongst the accompanying strings as the Munich Philharmonic’s solo trumpeter, Alexandre Baty, enters into a cheeky dialogue with the celebrated Turkish pianist Fazıl Say.
No sooner had Sibelius’s majestic Symphony No 2 premiered that it became associated with Finland’s struggle for independence. With this performance, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste takes us back to the forests of Finland. Perhaps to a restful, moss-covered clearing that invites you to dream?
Programme
- Jouni Kaipainen: Sisyfoksen uni (Sisyphus’ Dream), Op 47
- Dimitri Shostakovich: Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra No 1 in C minor, Op 35
- Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 43
With
- Fazıl Say, piano
- Alexandre Baty, trumpet
- Munich Philharmonic
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
