Frank Nuyts (°1957)
Different from habit
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Violin Concerto, op. 47
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony no. 4, op. 29 ~ ‘The Inextinguishable’
duration concert → 2h 10min
including 20min intermission
Alina Pogostkina and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto: a combination that has only gotten stronger with each performance. The German-Russian violinist captures the shadowy intensity of the concerto in crystal-clear strokes: delicate and devastating all at once. Chief Conductor Kristiina Poska embarks on the next leg of her travels through Scandinavia, with Danish Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4. Against the raging backdrop of the First World War, Nielsen composed with unbridled vitality. “Music IS life,” he believed. “Both are inextinguishable.”
