Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth

Tickets on sale Wednesday 3rd of May at 10 am.

HANNU LINTU, conductor
MACKENZIE MELEMED, piano

Peter Lieberson: Drala
Einar Englund: Piano Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Contemporary, classical or neoclassical? American Peter Lieberson’s breakthrough work from the 1980s is like a small symphony, and a particularly beautiful one, as one reviewer of the premiere put it. Beethoven’s Fifth, on the other hand, is a quintessential classic, with a driving theme that has become a shared heritage for all Western listeners. Finnish-born American virtuoso Mackenzie Melemed gives a performance of Einar Englund’s rarely heard First Piano Concerto, the intense defiance of which looks firmly in the direction of the Russian masters of the 20th century.

Duration: approx. 2 hours, includes intermission.

Produced by Lahti Symphony Orchestra.