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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

24.3.2023 19:00

Mannerheimintie 13a, 00100 Helsinki

FRSO, Kazuki Yamada & Lise de la Salle

“Just as a dream, for its vividness of detail, points to an unanticipated, unreal whole, so in this work short episodes hang suspended in seeming incoherency to form a musical whole,” said Toru Takemitsu of his Dreamtime.

Henri Dutilleux inhabited a world of sensual tonality and jazz in his first Symphony, in a way that was rare in the Puritanical climate of the 1950s.

During his years in America, Rachmaninov returned to the first Piano Concerto he had written as a teenager in order to give it a make-over. To his regret, he was forced to admit that despite the Concerto’s youthful freshness, his American audience expected him to play his later ones.

Performers:

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO)

Kazuki Yamada, conductor

Lise de la Salle, piano

Program:

Toru Takemitsu: Dreamtime

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 F Minor Op. 1

Henri Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1

Late-Night Chamber Music:

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Trio No. 2

Mackenzie Melemed, piano

Laura Vikman, violin