SCENES FROM A FILM
THURSDAY 10.04.2025 at 18.30
KRISTIAN SALLINEN, conductor
EEVA MÄENLUOMA, clarinet
Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture
Esa-Pekka Salonen: kínēma
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.
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.
Contrary to prior information, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade is not available as a recording due to production-technical reasons.