LIFE AND DEATH
Thu 11.04. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
RODERICK COX, conductor
ALBAN GERHARDT, cello
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concertto
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Samuel Barber: Symphony in One Movement
The symphony by the American Samuel Barber was a musical milestone of 1936, and its vibrancy has not faded with time. The young Richard Strauss’s early poem Tod und Verklärung marked an explosive statement in the composer’s struggle to overcome illness, a struggle between the fear of death and a thirst for life that grew to symphonic proportions. Roderick Cox makes his much-anticipated return to Lahti.