Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Scenes from a film

KRISTIAN SALLINEN, conductor
EEVA MÄENLUOMA, clarinet

Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture
Esa-Pekka Salonen: kínēma
Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov: Šeherazade

The Polish early modernist Grażyna Bacewicz paved the way for her renowned compatriots. The Overture, written in the gloom of the war years, embodies hope, victory and light within the dynamic framework of neoclassicism.

Princess Scheherazade’s incredible tales from One Thousand and One Nights take us to the sources of Middle Eastern legends. The unsurpassed orchestral painter Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov tied the book’s best tales into a symphonic adventure in the mystical world of the Arabian Nights.

Kínēma is both a sparkling master concerto and a collection of cinematic fragments, a poetic, beautiful and action-packed series of scenes. “It doesn’t sound modern, but I think it’s easily approachable,” describes Esa-Pekka Salonen. The twists and turns of the imaginary triangle drama are carried out by the solo clarinetist of the Lahti Symphony, Eeva Mäenluoma.

The length of the concert is about 2 hours, including interval.

Organizer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.