Wednesday 19.03.2025 at 18.30
Sibelius Hall
Thursday 20.03.2025 at 18.30
Sibelius Hall
DALIA STASEVSKA, conductor
VERNERI POHJOLA, trumpet
MIINA-LIISA VÄRELÄ, soprano
VILLE RUSANEN, baritone
YL MALE VOICE CHOIR
Sauli Zinovjev: an adagio
Kaija Saariaho: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra HUSH
Jean Sibelius: Kullervo
Duration 2h, inc. 20 min intermission
17.30 pm Pre-concert talk
Tickets:
Tickets: 39-15 € (adults) / 35–15 € (OAPs) / 25–15 € (children, students, unemployed)
The Lahti Symphony Orchestra turns 75 and Sibelius Hall turns 25. Double congratulations!
Principal conductor Dalia Stasevska, the YL Male Voice Choir, baritone Ville Rusanen and soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä celebrate the twin birthdays with the almost 75-minute-long symphonic poem with choir and soloists by Jean Sibelius. The Finnish national composer’s first great work tells the tragic story of the Kalevala hero, with his love affairs, battles and bloody demise. Kullervo echoes the primal patriotism of autonomy-era Finland.
How could a trumpet depict falling into a deep well and crashing into the walls on the way down? This was a question that Kaija Saariaho pondered when composing a concerto for jazz trumpeter Verneri Pohjola with the last of her strength. The concerto HUSH has been hailed as an unforgettable masterpiece, the ultimate expression of Saariaho’s immortality.
Symphonically together: Polttimo Oy