Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

FRSO, Nicholas Collon & Boris Giltburg

All the works in this concert were composed within a decade of one another, though they each have a very different musical worldview. The fourth Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninov had been preceded by a silence lasting no less than eight years, and it reveals a surprisingly modern, restless, tragic Rachmaninov. 

The Symphony of Psalms was Igor Stravinsky’s reply to a request from his publisher to compose “something popular”. The original stage version of Bartók’s pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin caused such a scandal that it was no longer staged during the composer’s lifetime.

Performers:

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO)

Nicholas Collon, conductor

Boris Giltburg, piano

Helsinki Music Centre Choir

Program:

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 G Minor Op. 40

Igor Stravinsky: Psalm Symphony

Béla Bartók: Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19 Sz. 73

Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall

26. & 27.4.2023 at 19.00

Tickets 9–38€ from Ticketmaster, ticket sales starts 9.12.2022