OCEANS & SPRING

Icelandic contemporary music is already a known concept, and María Huld Marka’s Sigfúsdóttir is currently its most internationally significant export. Oceans by Sigfúsdóttir, who has also performed with Sigur Rós, immerses the audience in cinematic sonorities, with an ocean-sized soundscape spreading waves of serenity across the listener’s sensory world.

Robert Schumann had previously composed exclusively for piano, but one day his imagination began to run so wild that he needed an entire symphony orchestra. In just a few weeks, he completed his First Symphony, a semi-programmatic depiction of spring, whose rays of light symbolized both the composer and nature bursting into full bloom.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, completed for a visit to Paris, combines the best features of a spectacular concerto and a stately symphony in a showpiece for two soloists. The violin and viola parts are played as a sometimes even sensual duet by the Lahti Symphony’s own Aleksi Trygg and Kei Ito.