Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Two-Headed Piano

Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Two-Headed Piano

KRISTIINA POSKA, conductor
LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN, piano

Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

17.30 pm Pre-concert talk, Minna Lindgren

Lucas and Arthur Jussen have been performing at the highest level for two and a half years. Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos is a bravura work, as if tailor-made for these Dutch brothers. In the words of critic Alexander Hall, ‘it was like watching two boys pulling out from a gigantic box of toys one brightly coloured bauble after another, all managed with lightning precision and breathtaking coordination.’

Gabriel Fauré’s works are among the most important contributions to French symbolism. Pelléas et Mélisande, with its hazy stirrings of emotion rising from the mists, set an example for Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and Arnold Schoenberg, who later took up the same story.

Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska, who has recently appeared with orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, here conducts the Lahti Symphony Orchestra for the first time.

Duration 2h, inc. 20 min intermission

Schedule and tickets

Thu 23.1.2025 klo 18.30

Location

The Main Hall

34-13 € / adults
28–13 € / OAPs
10–8 € / children, students, unemployed