THURSDAY 10.04.2025 at 18.30

KRISTIAN SALLINEN, conductor
EEVA MÄENLUOMA, clarinet

Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture
Esa-Pekka Salonen: kínēma
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

The Polish early modernist Grażyna Bacewicz paved the way for her illustrious compatriots. Written in the gloom of the war years, her Overture expresses hope, victory and light in a neoclassical framework.

Princess Scheherazade’s incredible Tales of a Thousand and One Nights takes us to the world of Middle Eastern legend. The unsurpassed master of the orchestra, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, weaves the best tales from the book into a symphonic adventure in the mystical world of the Arabian Nights.

Kínēma is both a scintillating virtuoso concerto and a collection of cinematic fragments, a poetic, beautiful and action-packed sequence of scenes. ‘It doesn’t sound modern, but I find it very approachable’, says Esa-Pekka Salonen. Eeva Mäenluoma, solo clarinettist of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, takes us through the twists and turns of this imaginary love triangle.